Cynthia Nixon Explains Why Miranda's Endgame Was Never Meant to Be Steve or Che
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Some Sex and the City fans may still be in denial over the fact that Miranda Hobbes and Steve Brady got divorced, but Cynthia Nixon is not one of them. In fact, Nixon isn't surprised by the dissolution of their marriage at all.
Miranda and Steve's relationship came to a spectacular end with And Just Like That, the SATC revival series that saw Miranda come out as a lesbian—a sexual awakening that led her to pursue an affair with nonbinary comedian Che Diaz.
Speaking with Harper's Bazaar, the star opened up about why Steve was never meant to be Miranda's forever person. 'Steve was a wonderful, wonderful antidote for Miranda for a lot of years, but I think, at the end of the day, the problems that they had in the very beginning of their relationship never totally went away,' Nixon says. 'She wasn't ever really sure if he was enough for her.'
Nixon acknowledges that Miranda and Steve 'had a lot of good years together, but, in the end, I think she wanted something more, and Che was a different kind of something more.'
Che and Miranda's relationship took a turn for the worse in AJLT's second season. The two made a brief and disastrous move to Los Angeles together, before returning to New York and calling it quits on their romance. According to Nixon, Che—one of the fandom's most divisive characters who ultimately did not return for AJLT season three—wasn't quite right for Miranda, either.
'Che was such a breath of fresh air,' she explains, 'but Che and Miranda are so opposite that they could never have really existed long term.'
Season three sees Miranda back on the dating market—fully single and ready to mingle. Though the first two episodes show the lawyer stumbling over some awkward romantic encounters (from sleeping with a nun to hitting on a married heterosexual waitress), her next major romantic prospect has at last seemingly emerged. Joy, the British BBC producer Miranda first meets through her job at the Human Rights Watch in season two, has crossed the pond and touched down in New York City.
'Joy is a little younger than Miranda, but so much more experienced and sophisticated in this world in which Miranda is trying to make her way,' Nixon says. 'Miranda is so used to having—not with Che, but with Steve and other people that she dated—so used to having the upper hand, and she doesn't have that with Joy, and I think that's very good for Miranda.'
It helps that Joy represents the possibilities of the new career path that Miranda has chosen for herself.
'[Miranda] realizes now she wants to be... a global player in a more professional setting that can give aid and attention to people in the world, refugees, and other people who are really in crisis and need help and need assistance,' says Nixon. 'So I think she's dazzled by Joy in that way, with Joy's proficiency in that world. Also, Joy is a very serious and accomplished person, but everything is with an overlay of cheekiness of British funniness that's very diffusing to Miranda's determined pedantic seriousness. I think that Steve was able to diffuse Miranda in a particular way, but Joy is able to diffuse her with a lighter touch and in a more sophisticated manner.'
What comes next for Joy and Miranda? You'll have to tune into the rest of season three to find out.
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