Yahoo Lifestyle Cynthia Nixon Says The Sex And The City Ending Was Disheartening
Five years after it first hit cinemas, former Sex And The City star Cynthia Nixon has come forward saying she thinks the ending of the first movie was "completely disheartening".
Nixon, who played cynical lawyer Miranda Hobbes on the show, said the relationship between money and love was one of Sex And The City's worst aspects, and that the relationship between Mr. Big and Carrie Bradshaw was unrealistic.
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"I remember when we screened the first movie in London," said Nixon. "When Mr. Big shows Carrie that closet he’s built for her and the entire audience clapped. I found that devastating. Maybe that’s a strong word, but I was disheartened."
Nixon added that she questioned why so many people seemed to love the ending of the movie.
"Is this what these women think true love is?" she asked. "A man who has enough money to buy you a walk-in closet?"
Nixon isn't the only one to slam the movie's ending, with Sex And The City author Candace Bushnell telling Fashionista.com in an interview that she doesn't think Carrie would have ended up with Mr Big in real life.
"I don’t think women end up with that character, and if they do, they usually get divorced after a year," Bushnell commented.
The author also revealed that she would have loved to have seen Carrie decide to run for mayor in the second movie.
"It would get into some real issues of what happens when you’re part of a relationship and the woman is ambitious," explained Bushnell. "What does that do to her relationship with Mr. Big? To me, that would be interesting. But they were not going to go there."
But while they may have found the movies unrealistic, both Bushnell and Nixon were quick to defend the long-running TV series, with Nixon saying she was proud of everything it had accomplished for women.
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