'We've Got A Nice Groove': The And Just Like That Cast Look Ahead At What's To Come In Season 3

Nicole Ari Parker, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker and Sarita Choudhury on the set of And Just Like That's third seasonTelly’s most joyfully chaotic show, And Just Like That, is finally back for its third season.Ahead of the Sex And The City reboot’s return, HuffPost UK spoke to OGs Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis, plus new fave Nicole Ari Parker, about what fans of the show can expect from season three, which critics are already hailing as a turning point for the occasionally-divisive revival.During our interviews, the cast also responded to some of And Just Like That’s most divisive subjects, reflected on their Sex And The City memories and teased some of the fun that lies ahead for their characters.Here’s a round-up of all the biggest talking points that the And Just Like That cast shared with us...For starters, both Cynthia Nixon and Nicole Ari Parker feel like the show is a different beast altogether this season“Everyone’s in their groove,” Nicole says. “But I think that’s just part of the newness of season one, you know? Everyone’s got new friends, and everyone’s gelling and the writers are dancing with you, and you’re dancing with them, and they’re seeing your sensibilities.“So, season three feels like, ‘yeah, we got this’. We’ve got a nice groove.”Nicole Ari Parker returns as Lisa Todd Wexley in the new season of And Just Like ThatCynthia agrees: “When you’re beginning a new show – even though so many of these characters we know already – there’s always so much exposition, explaining who new people are, and how they relate to each other, and relate to the already-established characters.“So, I feel like there is a kind of ‘off to the races’ [quality] about this season that is really fun.”Because Miranda is now at a very different stage in her life, Cynthia also said that season three was the most fun to shoot so far“It’s so fun to see her dating again after so many years of being married, and then being in this very tempestuous love affair,” Cynthia enthuses.“Now, all of a sudden, she’s sort of starting from ground zero – but she’s that much older, she’s been off the market, dating is very different now, and she’s dating women. And so, I always feel like our show is the most like itself when one or more of us are thrown back in the horrors of the dating pool.”Cynthia Nixon originated the role of Miranda in Sex And The City, and is back for a new season of And Just Like ThatExploring more of Miranda’s sexuality has been something Cynthia has especially enjoyed – particularly in the current political climateCynthia says that both Sex And The City and And Just Like That “have always been about romance and dating” pointing out that queer characters like Anthony and Stanford (played by Mario Cantone and the late Willy Garson) have already existed “for a while”.“But to have a major female character who is queer, I just think is great,” she continues. “And our writers have done such a beautiful job of navigating it and making it so particular and not whitewashed. I think it’s really great.”The Emmy winner adds: “Our show was always a show that championed people who marched to the beat of their own drummer.“Whether you’re talking about their sexual decisions or their lifestyle, living alone, not getting married, having a child out of wedlock – or whether you’re even just talking about their fashion choices, you know! This was a cast of characters that never sought to fit in with the accepted norms – kind of far from it. So I think it’s really important [to keep that going], especially now.”Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon in And Just Like ThatSarah Jessica Parker has claimed that any similarities between herself and Carrie are not intentional on her partIn the past, fans have picked up on Sarah Jessica and her character’s shared affinity for all things sweet, love of Greece, passion for literature and, indeed, disdain for parsley.She insists: “I have no interest in integrating my life into Carrie’s, or making her more familiar. “It’s the very reason I like playing her – despite the fact that we look a lot alike, and we do have a couple of overlaps, she is wonderfully and radically different than me.”SJP admits: “With the parsley… I don’t know if Michael [Patrick King] heard me once ordering food, and thought it was amusing – or perhaps annoying to a server – but it wasn’t my idea to bring that or to make that Carrie’s dietary limitation as well.”Sarah Jessica Parker is back in action as Carrie Bradshaw in And Just Like ThatOn the many differences between herself and her character, Sarah Jessica adds: “I’ve been with my husband for 33 years, we have three kids.“I live a pretty quiet life, I didn’t go to clubs, I didn’t have a very colourful single life, I didn’t date that much, I don’t go out a lot, I don’t go to lunch a lot, I’ve pursued my career very differently, I think I have a very different relationship with money than Carrie. I could go on and on and on, which is, again, what makes it so thrilling to have sort of played [Carrie, and] had this alternate life for so long, you know?”Kristin Davis says Charlotte is a more complex character than some people realiseDuring our interview, Kristin praised both Sex And The City creator Darren Star and And Just Like That showrunner Michael Patrick King’s “brilliant” approach to creating the character of Charlotte.“She was always very goal-oriented in her personal life, which was odd, but also I knew that she wasn’t going to get what she wanted because that would have been pretty boring, you know?” Kristin says.“It’s always been about Charlotte getting some version of what she thinks she wants – and then realising, it’s not actually what she wants, or it doesn’t fulfil her truly, and then how is she going to deal with that? How is she going to grow from that? How is she going to move forward from that?She adds: “I love that about her, and I love that she never gives up. She always recovers pretty well from these disappointments, you know? And moves forward. I love how they do it, how they write it for her, because it is complicated.”Kristin Davis as Charlotte in the second season of And Just Like ThatNicole Ari Parker is similarly impressed with how multi-layered her own ‘wonderful’ And Just Like That character is…“This character exists in New York City. She’s not made up,” Nicole says of Lisa (often referred to in the show as “LTW”. “Fashionable, fabulous Black women live on the upper East side, who are married with kids, and are lawyers and doctors and art historians – and [they’re] funny and charismatic and over the top.“So, because I know this, it’s a joy [portraying Lisa]. To play this woman in an iconic show is just the gift of my life.”…not to mention her always-colourful wardrobe“I love them so much,” Nicole says of her character’s wardrobe. “The absurdity of two purses, and giant necklaces, while making breakfast! She’s given me a lot of courage, LTW has. [She’s taught me,] why save the dress? Wear it! It’s Tuesday! I still have to go to work, but why not wear the good dress, you know?”And if you’re wondering if Nicole has ever told the wardrobe team to tone down her character’s wardrobe, that would be a resounding no.“Bring it on!” she insists. “As long as I can zip it up, let’s do it!”This is an example of what Lisa "LTW" Todd Wexley wears to make breakfastKristin Davis has admitted there’s one thing in particular she worries about when she sits down with Michael Patrick King at the beginning of a new seasonLooking back to the Sex And The City finale, and the two spin-off films, Charlotte is now the only character who’s still with her husband, following the death of Mr Big and the break-up of Steve and Miranda.As a result, Kristin has admitted she’s become pretty protective of Charlotte and Harry’s marriage.“I do feel a little worried every time we come back for a new season,” she reveals. “I’m always like [groans]... I’m so scared [Charlotte]’s going to cheat on [Harry]. But I also know that [Michael Patrick King] does love us as much as we love us.”She adds that she thinks Charlotte and Harry’s romance prevailing provides a nice “counterpoint to the other characters’ struggles, to have a steady relationship that’s working”.“Obviously, they’re not perfect, they’re never going to be perfect,” she adds. “But I do think it’s really solid, and I think the show needs that, so I take some comfort from that.”Charlotte and Harry, played by Kristin Davis and Evan Handler, in And Just Like That season twoSarah Jessica Parker has revealed there’s a reason we still know so little about Carrie’s back storyIn fact, SJP says there’s always been a “very conscious effort” not to dive too far back into any of the characters’ lives, but especially Carrie’s.One scene was even shot hinting at her past, only to wind up being cut as Michael Patrick King felt it would “complicate”, “eclipse” and “dominate” the bigger picture.“There was a moment that we had a father for Carrie. There was a scene shot where Carrie opens a desk drawer, and looks down and sees a photograph of her father, and shuts the drawer,” she recalls. “And we cut it from the show.”Sarah Jessica continues: “Why this [approach] is specific to Carrie I can’t tell you, but I could not agree [with it] more. Because there is a sort of alternate universe in which she lives, in which back story doesn’t exist.“So we’re not endowing her with qualities because, or saying she behaves this way because, or a parent or mother parented her this way and that’s why [she had] this response. [This way of portraying the character is] so clean, and it kind of gives you more liberty to tell story. Because in some ways, once you start introducing families, and the ways in which they’ve informed somebody, you lock yourself into like pathologies and choices and eccentricities.”Carrie Bradshaw has a brand new home in the third season of And Just Like ThatSarah Jessica is also sticking up for Carrie, who has become a somewhat divisive figure since both Sex And The City and And Just Like That have found a new audience on streamingAs Sex And The City’s audience has grown, certain choices Carrie makes over the course of the show, both in her romantic relationships and elsewhere in her private life, have made the character a somewhat controversial figure.“I don’t know about the controversy – I don’t want to know about the controversy,” she quips, jokingly putting her fingers in her ears.However, she adds: “I don’t know probably as much as you’re alluding to [about those conversations]. I would simply say that smart people make bad decisions sometimes [and] are foolish in judgement.“I think, fundamentally, Carrie is an extraordinarily decent and good person. [She’s] an extremely devoted friend, she’s generous of spirit and time, in all she has to offer. And if she’s made mistakes or not been mature in love, it’s always interesting to me that it’s so condemned, but a male lead on a show can be a murderer, and people love him.“If a woman has an affair, or behaves poorly, or spends money foolishly, she is an object of [scorn, and] there’s a kind of punitive response to it.”Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw in the first Sex And The City filmSarah Jessica does also says that to be at the centre of these debates and is still “pretty fantastic”.“That kind of connection and those kinds of strong feelings, both positive and negative, are pretty wonderful,” she insists. “People are kind of captive in those moments to something, and I think that’s perfectly fine.“I just think, it’s just interesting, the ways in which we judge women, and not men.”Cynthia is also defending her character, who some feel has strayed too far from where she started in Sex And The City over the course of And Just Like That’s first two seasonsMiranda’s uncertainty to so much in her life, especially in the early episodes of And Just Like That, felt at odds, to some fans, with the character they fell in love with on Sex And The City.For Cynthia, though, she’s not convinced that Miranda has “changed at all”.“She is a person who was always super opinionated, super intense, and was a bit of a bull in a china shop, and was sort of charging in one direction, and would sometimes have to backtrack a little bit or apologise that she sort of went too far too fast,” Cynthia says. “And I think that that’s what we’ve seen in terms of her tempestuous love affair with Che. I think, in a way, Miranda being so sure of herself is a kind of a thing that got her dug into a hole and painted her into a corner that in the beginning of the series she had to find a way out [of]. It’s hard to break out of a box that you’ve been living in for so long.”Cynthia Nixon as Miranda during the original run of Sex And The CityShe adds: “As a viewer, I don’t want to watch a show about characters that have figured everything out, and are well-behaved, and have challenges like, ‘where am I going to buy chicken for dinner?’.“I think we want to take these really fascinating, strong, smart characters, and throw them into hot water. If we think back to Carrie, you know, cheating on [Aidan] with [Big], or Carrie and her smoking, or Carrie and her spending habits, you know, it wasn’t ever about showing women who were like girl scouts and getting an A in conduct. Far from it!”The first instalment of And Just Like That season three is now streaming on Sky and Now in the UK, with new episodes following every Friday.READ MORE:Critics Are All Saying The Same Thing About And Just Like That Season 3'I Always Hated That': Cynthia Nixon Says This Part Of Sex And The City Has 'Really Not Aged Well'Sarah Jessica Parker Gets Candid About Why She Almost Quit Sex And The City Before It Even Aired

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