Nicole Ari Parker (The Boris and Nicole Show) shares how show And Just Like That, sequel to the Sex and the City series, is bringing more for her character Lisa Todd Wexley by expanding the story of her home life, identity, and family in “60 to 90 second” sequences according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In And Just Like That‘s seventh episode of the second season, Lisa Todd Wexley’s son allows his girlfriend to invade Lisa’s most prized and special space: her closet. This riveting event shocks Lisa to her core. In Sex and the City, fashion and clothes have been a huge driving point and were huge attributes for all of the characters. Fans of Sex in the City will note how significant Carrie Bradshaw’s, played by Sarah Jessica Parker (Failure to Launch), closet was to her character. Even Charlotte York, played by actress Kristin Davis (Holiday in the Wild), had a journey with her closet in the second season of And Just Like That with her daughter Lily, played by Cathy Ang (My Best Friend’s Exorcism).
For Lisa in And Just Like That, her closet journey takes a different route than any of the other Sex and the City ladies as the episode expands farther than just her relationship with her son and his bold love interest. Instead, the episode uncovers what it means to be a black woman in the epicenter of New York City, and its upper class at that. Such a story, and closet, is bound to spark a unique and rare story to tell on television.
Sarah Jessica Parker shared with the Hollywood Reporter before the SAG-AFTRA strikes that, “Susan Fales-Hill (A Ballerina’s Tale) has joined on as a writer-producer, and she was very instrumental in working with the art department and the props department to say that, ‘Yes, these clothes are fabulous,’ but in [Lisa’s] personal space — her safe space — she likes to stay inspired; remember her ancestry; remember the people that came before her. This is all part of the fabulousness of her, where she gets her strength.”