This is
and queer, non-binary, Mexican Irish diva
representing everyone else
outside these two boring genders.
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Back in the '90s, when I was first starting out in this industry,
I just wanted to be on
so you can imagine how exciting it was
when Michael Patrick King offered me the role.
My name is Sara Ramírez, and I am playing the Che Diaz.
Che is a huge fan of Carrie Bradshaw,
and happens to be Carrie's boss on their podcast.
What Sara brings to Che is so magnificent.
Che is so earnest, and yet irreverent,
and funny as hell to watch.
Yes!
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(WHISPERS) Hey, hey, hey.
That's where the professor sits.
I am the professor.
Wha-- You're the professor?
Yeah.
You're Nya Wallace?
(CHUCKLES) Yes. Why do you seem so surprised?
My name is Karen Pittman. I play Dr. Nya Wallace.
My character is a professor of law.
She meets Miranda when Miranda decides to go back to school.
She is a different generation of women,
but uniquely New York.
She is someone that Miranda realizes she wants to be when she grows up,
even though Nya is younger than her.
What I loved about the original series,
it was about women and friendship.
It's brought over into the storytelling
of
Okay. This closet, it's all gotta go.
No one touches the shoes.
I totally get it, I've named all my purses.
Meet Lorraine.
I play Seema Patel. She's a real estate agent.
I mean, she's on a level of power and money
that I don't even know.
I love her.
RACHNA FRUCHBOM:
You don't often see a 50-year-old woman
owning who she is.
And then casting Sarita,
it was like the honor of a lifetime to meet her,
as like an Indian American kid.
There's so many girls who I imagined perfect for this show,
so when I got the call, I was like,
"Have they seen what I'm like at home?"
I got you a coffee!
Well, I play Lisa Todd Wexley.
She's a very busy mom friend of Charlotte's.
I hadn't heard from you on this all week, so I thought you dropped the ball.
Charlotte's never dropped a ball in her life.
Check your spam, Dierdre, the whole chain is there.
JULIE ROTTENBERG:
We know from our own experience that you become close
with your mom friends through your children.
I just think the writers have done a really great job
in adding these characters,
and making them three dimensional.
Questions? No questions? I'm late. Have a great day.
FRUCHBOM:
and not just like inserted in to answer a question.
Having new writers on the show who were women of color,
who loved
and wanted to be part of that evolution
was one of the most fascinating
and exciting parts of the process.
Well, you can't tell a story about New York in 2021
and not have diversity, right?
The entire team was extremely committed
to depicting our new characters and their worlds authentically.
I search for collaborators
who are interested in diverse stories,
because I think those are the best stories.
I wanna be around people that think differently, that see things differently,
that have a different perspective.
You know, I'm really curious about the possibilities
around this iteration.
I'm also really grateful to everybody
from
for this continuation, and for including me in it.