Sara Ramírez will play a nonbinary queer podcaster in SATC revival And Just Like That…
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Samantha may be gone, but Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) will be getting at least one new friend in the Sex And The City revival series And Just Like That…. HBO Max announced today that Grey’s Anatomy alum Sara Ramírez will be joining the new series as “Che Diaz (they / them), a non-binary, queer, stand-up comedian that hosts a podcast on which Carrie Bradshaw is regularly featured.”
The character of Che appears to resemble Ramírez quite a bit, as they came out as nonbinary last year, and bisexual in 2016. In a statement, executive producer Michael Patrick King commented: “Everyone at And Just Like That… is beyond thrilled that a dynamically talented actor such as Sara Ramírez has joined the Sex And The City family. Sara is a one-of-a-kind talent, equally at home with comedy and drama—and we feel excited and inspired to create this new character for the show.” They played played orthopedic surgeon Callie Torres for over a decade on Grey’s, the longest running LGBTQ+ character on a TV series. Since Grey’s, Ramírez also had a long stint on Madam Secretary as political strategist Kat Sandoval, and voiced Queen Miranda on the animated series Sofia The First. They won a Tony in 2005 for their role as The Lady Of The Lake in Monty Python’s Spamalot.
At any rate, the Che character and Ramírez’s hiring appears to indicate that the new SATC is making an effort to have a more open-minded view of sexuality than its predecessor—like season three’s “Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl,” in which Carrie openly doubts if bisexuality even exists. HBO Max states that production on And Just Like That…—in which the trifecta of Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte are now navigating life in their 50s—will begin this summer, but no release date has been announced yet.
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Huh, I must have missed Sara coming out as nonbinary, though it’s not a big surprise. Loved them on Grey’s – Callie was one of my favorite characters.
“Che Diaz (they / them), a non-binary, queer, stand-up comedian that hosts a podcast on which Carrie Bradshaw is regularly featured.”See I already can’t find the character plausible because I can’t believe for the life of me that this Che Diaz would voluntarily hang around with the epitome of white bread that is Carrie Bradshaw. Unless they just roast her to oblivion.I didn’t know Ramirez is non-binary, that’s cool. And that look is cool, but honestly I want them and Lea DeLaria do a movie together or a series where the two of them are, like, sibling assassins or bodyguards or sth.
IAWTC. I have only ever watched one episode of Sex and the City, but the writing Carrie Bradshaw is reading in V.O. at the end was so utterly cringeworthy that I cannot suspend enough disbelief to think that somebody a half-generation younger than her would have any interest in it (or her) whatsoever. It would be like Caitlin Flanagan getting a job writing for Jezebel.
I actually got to see Ramirez in Spamalot in 2005. They were fantastic; easily the highlight of the show, and that’s while being onstage alongside Tim Curry, Hank Azaria, and David Hyde Pierce.
I was coming here to say the exact same thing. Ramirez was so amazing as The lady of the Lake (and her laker girls😂), I saw Spamalot again just for them.
Agreed! Just delightful.
It seems like they’re trying too hard to be relevant and it’s actually going to age the show faster. Sara Ramirez is great, but the main characters feel like it’s always the early 90s for them. Which is fine! Not everything is timeless and even when it aired the show always felt a bit outdated. It was still a fun sitcom. But so much about everything is different now. Why is Carrie on podcasts? What’s her career? When the show is about your dating life and then you’ve been married for 20 years, what story are you telling?