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    Cynthia Nixon has insisted "certain things have really not aged well" in 'Sex and the City'

    The 59-year-old actress - who played Miranda Hobbs in the iconic comedy drama between 1998 and 2004 - has insisted while most of the show is "still pretty great", other aspects wouldn't work if the show was made today.


    Reflecting on how badly some things have "aged", she told Grazia magazine: "It was always very difficult being on a show that was so white.

    "I always hated that. When we would raise it, we were told: this is Candace Bushnell's world and it's a very white world.

    "I'm like, 'OK...' [And] some of the trans stuff, some of the gay stuff was a little cringy to look at."

    Despite its shortcomings, Cynthia - who is married to wife Christine Marinoni - insisted 'Sex and the City' remains a "feminist show".

    She said: "It's always been a feminist show. What you have to remember is that we were in our thirties and forties.

    "Of course, I look at the show now, we look like babies, but being single at that age, at that time, still had a kind of stigma."

    Cynthia - whose character Miranda mirrored real life by coming out as gay in revival series 'And Just Like That' - pointed out that there was a revolutionary message at the heart of the show.

    She added: "You can be a woman, you can have a lot of sex with a lot of different people.

    "It didn't make you a slut and it didn't mean you were using sex to get something. You were having sex - because you enjoyed having sex!"

    Cynthia previously revealed how she and her original co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis and Kim Cattrall were bombarded with hate when the original show first aired.

    She told Page Six: "People have always been very passionate about 'Sex and the City' and now 'And Just Like That'.

    "I feel like 'Sex and the City' is now so enshrined in memory and sentimentality but people hated us at first.

    "They kept saying over and over, 'These aren't really women, these are gay men in disguise. Women don't talk like this. Women don't talk about sex like this.' "

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