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Daily Telegraph
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Telegraph
And Just Like That: Sarita Choudhury on Sarah Jessica Parker
Don't miss out on the headlines from Celeb Style. Followed categories will be added to My News. And Just Like That star Sarita Choudhury had addressed what it's like shooting awkward sex scenes – and the reason she is 'almost embarrassed' by them. 'I'm like, how do they know that? You think it's personal to you,' the British-Indian actor said. '[You think] do other women have this problem? A lot that happens to us in life, you might tell your one friend, you're not talking to everyone about it. 'Usually in any of the bed scenes, I find the most comedy.' The 58-year-old plays Seema Patel on AJLT, which is currently airing its third season. Seema is a leopard-print wearing and Birkin bag toting real estate agent working in Manhattan, and a close friend of Carrie Bradshaw's (Sarah Jessica Parker), filling the kind of sexually liberated role famously and formerly filled by Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall). An accomplished actor, Choudhury made her Hollywood debut opposite Denzel Washington in Mira Nair's 1991 drama Mississippi Masala, and had a starring role in hit TV series Homeland, among other projects. The cast of And Just Like That including Sarita Choudhury, second from right. Picture: Getty Images Asked about the importance of cultural representation in Hollywood, Choudhury remarks: 'It is so important. As an actor, I look for [the] character. And then because I have brown skin, and I'm Indian, that's going to come in naturally as opposed to the writers informing me how to do that'. 'With And Just Like That, one of the first things I saw was – oh, she smokes, she walks, she says it. I was like, this is exciting. This is not a stereotype.' Sitting down with Stellar from New York, Choudhury says she takes inspiration from Seema's self-confidence, which she muses was likely built from 'maybe not fitting in'. 'Often what looks like confidence comes from, you know, maybe not fitting in,' she said. 'I think you develop your strength, because you have no choice. I think Seema comes from that kind of root. 'I'm of colour, and it doesn't matter what school I went to, I was always the different one. 'You find tricks and you are also like, f-off to anyone who doesn't get it, as you go home and cry. Now, she's like whatever.' 'I think you develop your strength, because you have no choice.' Picture: WireImage Picture: Getty Images While Fendi and Hermes are staples of Choudhury's on-screen wardrobe, her personal style is less like Seema's in real life. 'I like things to look normal, within the glamour. When people tell you, no, no, no, you've got to do this! People actually want your original truth. 'Yes, it has to be packaged a bit at the beginning. In a moment of a scene, you can just stare at someone in a certain way, no one can control that. It's actually more work to be yourself but it's worth it.' The latest season of And Just Like That – the buzzy reboot of groundbreaking series, Sex and the City – has been criticised, including this week for a bizarre plot inconsistency surrounding the killing off Lisa Todd-Wexley's father twice. It led New York magazine's influential Vulture blog to ask: 'Could the loony bin known as the AJLT writers' room have made such a big continuity error?' 'I like things to look normal, within the glamour.' Picture: Getty Images While not commenting on the jarring error, Choudhury said she had felt more embedded into the cast – and role, while shooting the third season. 'I feel so much more settled and also, more alive. Now, I know how to wear high heels well, I know how to open all my purses quickly. 'I enjoy her pace, I know how to study for it. It's less uncertain and scary and it allows me to take in everyone,' she said, referring to her co-stars including Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis. 'By season three now, it's completely at ease. I don't think twice about running into any of their dressing rooms to ask them advice or a question. 'If we're lucky to be in a location, at a lot of our locations there are crowds. We can't even hang out! We can't go to the next restaurant and just sit outside. That's not possible. Sometimes, we visit each other at our houses, where there is certain privacy. 'My most fun these days is when we're in the makeup room together and we gossip. Because we know each other more, it's a shorthand.' It's a contrast to the reality Choudhury faced in the show's first season, when she admits she 'was a little terrified, let's be honest'. 'It was exciting to get the news that I was going to do this and at the same time, how was I going to do this? 'I knew this show was under the world's eye – like, people have a lot of love towards the history of the show. And their history with the show. It was scary. 'By the time season one finished, I started to think, oh, this could be fun! Season two you don't know if you can repeat what you did in season one. 'By season three, I realised it's not me playing a character, it's these friends pulling me in. You start to earn that over the seasons. I feel so comfortable with the ladies.' New episodes of And Just Like That … are out every Friday on Max. The new issue of Stellar is out on Sunday.
Vogue
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
82 Thoughts I Had While Rewatching Mississippi Masala
In the wake of Zohran Mamdani's handy victory over Andrew Cuomo in New York City's mayoral primary on Tuesday, this seemed as good a week as any to rewatch the 1991 cult classic Mississippi Masala, directed by Mamdani's mother, filmmaker Mira Nair. But then again, does one really need a specific or timely reason to watch And Just Like That…'s Sarita Choudhury engage in one of the hottest sex scenes of all time with none other than Denzel Washington? Below, find every literally thought I had while watching Mississippi Masala:
Vogue
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
On the Podcast: Sarita Choudhury on Animal Prints, Hangovers, and Seema Patel of ‘And Just Like That…'
Recently, the oh-so-worldly Sarita Choudhury breezed into The Run-Through's studio to talk with Chloe Malle and Vogue's digital style director Leah Faye Cooper about the new season of And Just Like That…—including what it was like to kick off her first scene of the season in lingerie. Plus, she reveals where her and her character Seema's fashion tastes diverge (no animal prints for Sarita, thank you very much); recalls what it was like to grow up across three countries; and shares her secret to getting rid of a hangover.
Daily Mail
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Sex And The City star Cynthia Nixon appears in great spirits as she is joined by her wife Christine Marinoni and fellow cast members at French Open
Sex And The City star Cynthia Nixon appeared in great spirits as she joined her wife Christine Marinoni at the French Open in Paris on Friday. The actress, 59, looked effortlessly chic as she opted for a striped dark brown shirt and large straw sunhat. Meanwhile her wife kept it simple in a white polo shirt and baseball cap as they were seen clapping and cheering together. The couple were joined by Cynthia's fellow And Just Like That co-stars Sarita Choudhury and Kristin Davis as they enjoyed the day out after the new series was released on Friday. Sarita, 58, looked stylish in a white striped-shirt and summer hat, while Kristin, 60, opted for a bold black and white checked summer top. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the Daily Mail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Cynthia and Christine became friends in 2001 and started dating in 2004 after Cynthia's divorce from her husband Danny Mozes in 2003. The star has said that she's like her Sex And The City character 'in every single way' because of the way her real-life journey from a long-term relationship with a man to marrying a woman has mirrored Miranda's. When they met, Christine was working as a community organizer and educator at the Alliance for Quality Education. Cynthia, who has been a longtime activist and organizer, became a spokesperson for the alliance. Christine was Cynthia's first relationship with a woman. 'When we started seeing each other, Christine kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, for me to panic about what this would mean - to my career or to myself -as if somehow I just hadn't noticed that she was a woman,' she told Elle. 'And then she met my mother, and that was when she stopped worrying about it.' But Cynthia's publicist wasn't so sure going public with her same-sex relationship was the best move. 'He just kept saying, "It's your life, and it's private, and that's it." And we kept asking, "That's the whole thing? We never move past that?" We're at the playground with the kids, and pictures are taken of us, and we say, "No, she's my friend?"' The actress, 59, looked effortlessly chic as she opted for a striped dark brown shirt and large straw sunhat Cynthia fired that publicist and her next one encouraged her to go public with her relationship. The couple got engaged in 2009 at a rally supporting the legalisation of same-sex marriage. They married on May 27, 2012 after gay marriage was legalised in New York State and welcomed their son, Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni in 2011, who was fathered by Sex And The City costume designer Michael Growler. Cynthia also has two children she shares with her ex-husband, Seph, 28, and his brother Charles, 22. The star has revealed how Seph and Max are lucky enough to have four parents - herself and Marinoni and Mozes and his new wife - and they refer to all the women as their mothers. It comes as the new series of And Just Like That has been dubbed an improvement from the first two seasons. The Mail's Claudia Connell awarded the drama four stars, writing: 'After two disappointing seasons as flat as a loafer shoe that Carrie Bradshaw wouldn't be caught dead in, And Just Like That – the sequel to Sex And The City – is finally hitting the right note.' The Guardian gave it three stars, writing: 'After two misfiring series, some of the old Sex and the City magic is detectable in this new run of the HBO spin-off. The original Sex and the City ran for six seasons, airing on HBO from 1998 until 2004; Cynthia, Kristin, Sarah and Kim pictured in a promotional photo from 1999 'As it returns for a third run, there are signs that it's finally getting into its vertiginous-heeled stride. 'There is still plenty here to mock – and rest assured, we will – but there's also just enough of the old magic to make this a nostalgic guilty pleasure.' Meanwhile The Independent agreed saying that the series had 'finally started to find its groove'. They added in their three star review: 'The evolution, from controversial reboot to inoffensive serial, might spawn fewer social media reactions, but it makes for a far smoother watch.' IndieWire also agreed that things were improving with the third series, saying: 'Michael Patrick King's 'Sex and the City' sequel series seems to be settling into a groove. 'A groove that's quite familiar, if once forsaken. Yes, a groove worn smooth by 'Sex and the City.'' Collider, Time Magazine and Mamamia also gave positive reviews.
The Independent
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
‘And Just Like That…' finds its voice as season 3 embraces queerness, maturity — and messy truth
'She's messy. It can be messy. But it's real.' So says Cynthia Nixon — not just of Miranda Hobbes, the character she's embodied across almost three decades, but of the show itself. 'And Just Like That...,' HBO's 'Sex and the City' revival, has come into its own in season three: less preoccupied with pleasing everyone, and more interested in telling the truth. Truth, in this case, looks like complexity. Women in their fifties with evolving identities. Not frozen in time, but changing, reckoning, reliving. Queerness that's joyful but not polished. Grief without melodrama. A pirate shirt with a bleach hole that somehow becomes a talisman of power. At its glittering European premiere this week, Nixon and costar Sarah Jessica Parker, flanked by Kristin Davis and Sarita Choudhury, spoke candidly with The Associated Press about how the show has evolved into something deeper, rawer, and more reflective of who they are now. A voice returns Season three marks the return of Carrie Bradshaw's iconic internal monologue — the voiceover that once defined 'Sex and the City' and gave millions of women permission to narrate their lives. That rhythmic intimacy is back, and not by accident. 'We've always loved the voiceover,' Parker said. 'It's a rhythm — it's part of the DNA.' For Parker, it mirrors Carrie's emotional clarity. The character who once floated through Manhattan chasing shoes and column deadlines is now grounded in reinvention, loss, and cautious hope. She's grown up and she's no longer hiding it. 'She doesn't burst into tears or stomp out of the room anymore,' Parker said. 'She asks smart, patient questions. That's not effort — that's just her nature now.' 'People seem surprised that she is mature,' Parker added. 'But that's just basic developmental stuff — hopefully, simply by living, we get better at things. It's not surprising. It's just real.' Warts and all Miranda's arc, which now includes a late-in-life queer awakening, may be the show's most radical contribution to television. For Nixon, it was vital that this journey didn't feel sanitized. 'There's never a 'too late' moment. Miranda comes to queerness at 55. That doesn't mean everything that came before was wrong. It just means this is her now. And it's messy. It can be messy. But it's real.' That embrace of imperfection is central to Nixon's philosophy of storytelling, especially on television, where long-running characters become part of the cultural furniture. 'Television puts someone in your living room, week after week. They're imperfect, they make you laugh, and eventually you say, 'I know that person. They're my friend.' That's more powerful than one mythic, perfect film. That's where the change happens.' That change includes representation. Nixon recalled how earlier generations of queer characters were forced to be flawless to justify their presence. 'There was a time when gay people on screen had to be saints or martyrs,' she said. 'Now, we can be characters like Miranda — who've had rich, fulfilling heterosexual lives and now stumble upon queerness, and not in a tidy way. There's collateral damage. That's important.' The power of long form That depth, Nixon said, comes not just from character, but from the format. Unlike film, which requires resolution in two hours, television lets people grow — and falter — in real time. 'On long-running shows, if the writers are smart, they start to weave in the actor,' Nixon said. 'When I started, Miranda and I were very different. But now we've grown closer. We're almost the same person — in temperament, in values.' That closeness is reflected in the material. Season three narrows its scope, pulling focus back to the emotional cores of Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte. Several side characters are gone, including Che Diaz, and what remains is a cleaner, more character-driven story. 'I think one of the great things about our show is we show women in their 50s whose lives are very dramatic and dynamic,' Nixon said. 'You get to this age and there's a lot going on — if you choose to keep moving forward.' Friends, friction, and freedom Kristin Davis, who plays Charlotte, noted that those life shifts come fast and often overlap. 'She really starts to unravel,' Davis said. 'But the joy is her friends are there.' Sarita Choudhury, who plays real estate powerhouse Seema, echoed that sense of late-blooming autonomy. 'She's feeling that, if you have your own business, your own apartment, your own way, you get to say what you want,' Choudhury said. 'There's power in that.' It's a subtle rebuke to the long-held media narrative that midlife is a decline. In 'And Just Like That...", it's the opposite. Not just fashion — declaration Fashion, as ever, is present — but now it feels more personal than aspirational. Parker described insisting on wearing a ripped vintage Vivienne Westwood shirt with a bleach hole in a key scene. 'I didn't care,' she said. 'It had to be in an important scene. It meant something.' Even the show's iconic heels, still clacking through New York's brownstone-lined streets, feel louder this season. They're not just accessories. They're declarations. And yes, Carrie is writing again, though not her usual musings. A 'historical romance' project, mentioned only briefly on screen so far, hints at the show's comfort with poking fun at itself and its heroine's occasionally pretentious flair. If early reviews are right, it might be one of the season's most enjoyably ludicrous storylines. 'And Just Like That...' is a show that's learned to walk — loudly — into its next chapter. It may be messy. But it's real. 'You're better today than you were ten years ago,' Parker said. 'That's not just Carrie — that's everyone.' ___
