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Sex and the City reboot star Nicole Ari Parker reveals And Just Like That will ‘deal with race’ in storylines
Nicole Ari Parker joins the three original stars of SATC (Picture: @sarahjessicaparker/Instagram)
Nicole Ari Parker, one of the stars of the Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That, has revealed that the new series will address race in its storylines, saying that she’s ‘excited’ to be a part of the revival..
It’s been 17 years since the final episode of Sex and the City was released and over a decade since the second film came out in cinemas, with And Just Like That set to launch at the end of the year.
The new series will star several returning cast members, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon, in addition to newcomers such as Nicole, who is playing the role of documentarian Lisa Todd Wexley, following Kim Catrall’s exit as Samantha Jones.
During a recent interview, Nicole – who previously appeared in productions including Remember the Titans, Soul Food and Empire – opened up about what it’s been like to join the cast alongside Sara Ramírez, Sarita Choudhury and Karen Pittman.
Speaking to Variety, she explained that they were able to address ‘the elephant in the room’ over the lack of actors of colour in the original series.
‘I’m excited to be a part of something that’s different for them,’ she said.
Nicole captured in a vibrant outfit while filming the series in New York (Picture: Gotham/GC Images)
‘We can talk about the elephant in the room that there were no fully fleshed-out characters of colour, but now here’s the four of us. We’re real people, and they’ve been great to work with, and some of our [storylines] deal with race and deal with real experiences. It’s New York City!’
Nicole added that the new show will take after the original with some sizzling romances, stating: ‘We’re grown-ass women, so we know how to keep it sexy. It’s piping hot.’
Kim Catrall will not be returning with her former SATC co-stars for the reboot (Picture: HBO MAX)
Throughout its six-year run, Sex and the City received numerous accolades, being nominated for over 50 Emmy Awards and 24 Golden Globes.
While it garnered a passionate fan following that’s continued to the present day, the comedy-drama was criticised for its lack of inclusion of people of colour despite being set in the multicultural New York City.
In October 2019, the creator of Sex and the City, Darren Star, opened up about the one regret he had about the programme as he addressed the lack of diversity on the series.
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‘That’s the one thing I probably would have liked to have done differently,’ he told The Hollywood Reporter.
‘Hopefully it transcended that, but looking back, wow, that would have been another way to make it feel more groundbreaking.’
And Just Like That will be available to stream on HBO Max from December.
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