Cynthia’s Bad Habit
March-17-2010
Breaking News
In a
Sex and the City expose, show creator, Michael Patrick King has revealed that he banned
Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda Hobbs in the TV series, from eating during shooting because she drowns out the dialogue of her cast members.
“There’s only one thing I avoided having Cynthia do on all the years of
Sex and the City, and that was to eat on camera,” says Michael. “I discovered early in the first season, when I wrote that Miranda eats in a coffee shop, Cynthia would eat in the coffee shop. I mean, chew and bite with gusto. There were times you couldn’t even hear the other girls’ lines.”
Speaking at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Awards in New York at the weekend – where Cynthia was honoured with the Vito Russo Award – Michael adds insult to injury, “Seriously, all the girls would get to pick what they wanted in the coffee shop scenes, and Kristin and SJ would pick salads, and Kim would pick blueberries, and Cynthia, I’d look over, would be eating a cheeseburger. Like, eight cheeseburgers! And every time a new one arrived, she was even more delighted than the last.”