Sometimes a piece of news comes along that makes us genuinely confused – people, get ready for that news.
You know Cynthia Nixon from Sex And The City? She’s got fans. Actual fans. Not people who say that they like her to be ironic, or because they think that liking Sarah Jessica Parker would be too obvious. She’s got fans. The sort of hysterical logic-defying fans who’d storm onto the set of Sex And The City 2 just so they can be close to her.
It’s weird. But at least they weren’t Kim Cattrall fans. That would have really freaked us out.
The first Sex And The City movie was a box office phenomenon, taking hundreds of millions of dollars and easily becoming the most successful movie about four funny-looking middle-aged transvestites in the history of cinema. And because of its success, the world is now full of lonely women who think that drinking cocktails and saying the word ‘fabulous’ a lot makes them look impossibly sophisticated, when in fact they still look exactly like the depressed, unloved recruitment consultants that they actually are, only slightly more desperate.
But we digress. These women all like to compare themselves to one of the major Sex And City characters. They might compare themselves to Sarah Jessica Parker, the eloquent and fashion-conscious leader of the gang. Or they might prefer to align themselves with Kristin Davies, the conventionally beautiful prude with an alarming sideline in possible sex tapes. Or maybe Kim Cattrall, the outrageous drunk one who’ll sleep with anyone because it stops her from confronting the realisation that she’s going to die miserable and alone.
Or, the other one. There is another one, right? The ginger lesbian who nobody really likes? Yeah, her.
Well here’s something startling – Sex And The City 2 started filming in New York this week and, if reports are to be believed, the biggest fan draw so far is the ginger lesbian who nobody really likes. In fact, the hysteria surrounding Cynthia Nixon was so enormous that one of her scenes had to be pulled. The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
Filming for the “Sex and the City” sequel had to be halted on Wednesday after hysterical fans tried to overpower security to get closer to Cynthia Nixon… A source tells New York Daily News, “People were screaming and trying to push past guards. The fans were just too much. Security looked legitimately concerned for her (Nixon’s) safety.”
We honestly can’t get our head around this. Fans going crazy for Robert Pattinson we can understand, because his fans are all teenage girls and screaming and crying and loss of bladder control are what teenage girls do whenever they’re not talking too much or cutting themselves. But Cynthia Nixon? 43-year-old ginger hard-to-like lesbian Cynthia Nixon, star of Sex And The City and hardly anything else? Look, we know a lot of famous people have died recently, but there’s no need to lower your standards that much, is there?
Anyway, as a result of this bewilderingly inexplicable Cynthia Nixon hysteria, security has been stepped up for the remainder of the Sex And The City 2 shoot. And, when the inevitable Sex And The City 3 happens, fans won’t be able to get anywhere near its stars. Admittedly that’s because everyone will be so old by then that the entire movie will be set in a convalescent hospital for sufferers of chronic osteoporosis, but that’s hardly the point.
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Ruivous says
babe, if there is something good in SATC is Cynthia Nixon. Miranda has no self pitty, she isn`t desperate to find a fucking boyfriend with whom she is staying just not to be alone, she is smart and she can’t stand all those cliches about relationships, like laying down hughing each other in the morning. She just says “hey, someone’s gotta work here”. Perhaps people are tired of the self-indulgence of Carrie. Or all the fans were the lesbos that went there to pay respect for her getting out of the closet like “i don’t care”.
For the record: it’s better drinking cocktails and droping the word “fabulous” than being attached to a jerk that sees middle-aged single women like desperate.
Alan Kenneth says
May I just say you know absolutely nothing about the concept of what this show has done globally. it’s nothing like putting on a pair of shoes, drinking a drink or saying the word “fabulous” it’s about hope. Giving men and women a chance to better themselves, and believe that they deserve more just from the creation of Darren Star and the author Candice Bushnell – as a pro- (?) question your logic and think outside the box instead of your own selfish opinion of what you think is right!
P.S. Never stop smiling!
robot says
I thought you were ginger.
greta says
My goodness Mr. Herritage I am purely straight and you are extremely discriminative…
I have never seen a bigger discrimination over a movie and a star before…you must be one awefully bitter person…I am not gonna say much about the movie as there sure is a reason why this movie and the show in general has been a great success in the world!!! Plus there were others who made a great comment about it above so I wont waist time…when it comes to you and your selfish comments,however, it gives me an impression that you are a desperate journalist and a desperate man in general who can’t get no women of no age…
Just for the records I am a very young woman and no middle age but I can think more maturely than a person like yourself…when it comes to the stars like them,however, I am sure that you are dying to meet them even tho they are middle aged women,because they are great successful women…but, then again I doubt it, men like yourself always get intimitaded by powerful and successful women like them so I think that you would feel very powerless if you ought to ever even get close to them…
P.S. I am sure that you are not capable to even meet the old ones in the hospital for yourself ;)
JoeMomma says
She was the ugly one, definatly bottom of the ladder. Having sex with her would be like having sex with a dried out piece of red licourice.
All that show has done has empowered wanna be hosebags to prance around and think their shit doesn’t smell. It’s also allowed women to lie to themselves that they don’t want to get married, have a big wedding and be princess for a day.
hoohaahee says
If I may add to “joemommas” point:
she also has a partner who looks like the lead singer from Queens of the Stone Age (with much bigger hands).