By Jessica Pressler
They say politics is
Hollywood for ugly people, so it’s understandable that the question of
why exactly Cynthia Nixon is running for governor of New York is one
that keeps coming up. After all, Nixon has had the kind of career most
actors dream about. The past two years saw her inhabiting complicated,
interesting characters like Emily Dickinson and Nancy Reagan and taking
home a Tony — her second — for the Broadway production of Lillian
Hellman’s The Little Foxes. She could’ve kept going, agitating
for her favored progressive causes while looking for the kind of part
that would’ve netted her an Oscar, the last award she needs to get an
EGOT.
And: “There actually was
a part,” Nixon admitted recently, sitting on a barstool in her Noho
kitchen on a weekday morning. It was playing a female politician, she
said, and it was good, and although she declined to say who the
character was, looking at her layered bob (several shades lighter than
the red she’d had as Miranda on Sex and the City), intelligent
blue eyes, button nose, and Cool Whip complexion, you wouldn’t have to
be a genius casting director to figure it out.
“Blonde?” I asked. “Partial to pantsuits?”
Nixon pursed her lips in a mysterious smile that only served to emphasize that she’d have been an excellent Hillary Clinton.
But
instead of playing a politician, Cynthia Nixon has decided to become
one, a choice many have found confounding. Who would trade all of this —
the career, the apartment, the comfortable distance from reality — for
glad-handing, and stale coffee in Styrofoam cups, and answering for a
number of decades-old Sex and the City grievances, and, you know, Albany? “People were like, ‘I think it’s great, but just why?’ ”
Nixon said onstage at the Cutting Room in Murray Hill, at her recent
52nd-birthday party, which doubled as a fund-raiser. “Why would you
possibly do this?”
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Source: New York Magazine (via Empire Report New York)
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