Watch John Early Grill Cynthia Nixon About ‘Sex In The City’ Plotholes
"Speaking of housing, how could Carrie afford to live on the Upper East Side when she literally wrote one column a week?"
Cynthia Nixon has one small problem overshadowing her New York gubernatorial campaign: everyone conflates her with Miranda Hobbes, her no-shit-taking Sex and the City character. Including, as it turns out, interviewer John Early.
In a video for The Cut on her campaign to become New York governor, Nixon is interviewed by Early, who, naturally, is a big SATC fan. Instead of asking about her core policies, which include universal rent control, immigrant rights and re-hauling the punitive prison system, Early asks the questions die-hard fans still have to wonder about.
“I know you wanted to shift focus away from SATC questions, and with that in mind, I began to wonder what you’re going to do about New York’s housing crisis?,” he says, barely containing his grin.
Nixon graciously steers the conversation away from the show, but Early can’t help but get sidetracked.
“Speaking of housing,” he says, “how could Carrie afford to live on the Upper East Side when she literally wrote one column a week?”
He hits hard, too, asking the big questions, such as whether Miranda’s son’s name is Brady Brady or Brady Hobbes Brady. There’s also some daydream sequences of Early in his best Carrie Bradshaw drag, offering a thought-provoking monologue about “pop-culture becoming politics and politics becoming pop-culture”.
The video comes at the end of months of campaigning, as the election is September 13. We would like to remind you that Nixon was only able to run for governor after Sex And The City 3 was cancelled last year after a feud between co-stars Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker erupted weeks before filming was due to begin. With a free schedule, Nixon moved into politics.
The world works in mysterious ways. Watch the video below.