Yeah, that scene, like I said, I’m a super-fan of the franchise, so I had some people over, and we were watching it that Thursday night, and the air just left the room. So then they called me back and said, "No, listen, we’d really, really love to have you." "Oh, good! I need a comedy, after having done The Morning Show for eight, nine months." I need comedy. If I don’t get the job, it’s not my time. I know it." Which is how I approach auditions. We’ve worked together before, and we’ll work together again. And I love those guys, and I’ll have my chance. Can we really try to go for her?" I really didn’t think I got the audition. And by the way, I know this is Cynthia Nixon’s character." I know this isn’t Carrie Bradshaw, and I’m pretty sure it’s not Charlotte! They record your auditions and Cynthia saw mine and she said, "Oh, we have to have Karen, I love her work onstage. When I encountered that audition, I thought, "I totally understand this moment. That’s sort of the way some relationships begin. But you end up actually becoming friends with that person, and you endear yourself to them and they endear themselves to you. Because, you know, I’m sure this has happened to you, you meet someone who’s slightly awkward, and weird around you, because they’re trying to figure out how to conjugate what you are, and how to approach it in a respectful manner. So it wasn’t very hard for me to understand the arc of what that moment might look like, and what that relationship might look like. And like many women of color, especially women from my tribe, who saw that scene, they’d lived it. Miranda very cautiously : "Hey, don’t, that’s where the professor sits." She’s like, I am the professor." It was that very first scene, where Nya walks in with braids. Why it was important for them to make it diverse, and inclusive, like they have. To be the next chapter of Sex And The City. But I definitely have felt like, "Oh, I see why it’s important." And I see why it was important for And Just Like That to be different. You doing the thing that you do really matters to me, and it’s really important for me to see that." I haven’t completely stepped into the shoes of someone who can really inhabit that with a great deal of dexterity. And I’ve thought more about it as my career has gained steam because there are so many women who have come out to me and said, "Your representation really matters. But I definitely was one of those audience members that was like, "It would be great to see some women of color in that world. If we were going to be a woman of the world, we were going to be one of those women, running around New York City living her best life. That we felt like we could identify with as we came into the 21st century. Those characters lived in our social and cultural psyche, because they were such strong archetypes. At some point I was all of those women, which is what I think made it so iconic but so fundamentally female. I mean, I think the answer is all of them, at some point. Did you identify with one of the four women back when you were a viewer?
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