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Cynthia Nixon
Newsweek Europe
|July 11, 2025
CYNTHIA NIXON IS ALL OVER HBO MAX AT THE MOMENT. BETWEEN returning to play Miranda in the Sex and The City reimagined series And Just Like That and Ada on The Gilded Age, Nixon is balancing two very different women, yet with some similarities.
“Miranda is in situations that she has no experience and is not very good at yet. Ada is very similar in [that] she’s in over her head, and she’s so scared.” With both characters in their third seasons, Nixon continues to be excited about them. “It is wonderful to take a character that you think you know, and then put her in these situations that she never dreamed of.” In many ways Nixon relates to Ada more. “When I started to play Miranda, I felt like I had really no personal experiences that I could bring... Ada I sort of more naturally relate to.” Perhaps because “I don’t feel like I’m a person who likes to take risks,” unlike Miranda. But Nixon did learn one th
This story is from the July 11, 2025 edition of Newsweek Europe.
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