It’s long been known that And Just Like That... fans have some pretty choice words to say about Sara Ramirez’s character—but co-star Sarah Jessica Parker didn’t get the memo. The Sex and the City actress said in a Saturday Guardian interview that she was “shocked” to learn that Ramirez’s character, Che Diaz, was so widely disliked. “A friend of mine brought it up to me, and it’s like: ‘What are you talking about?’ And he said: ‘Yeah, there’s all this conversation,’” she said. “I’ve been an actor for 50 years, and I’ve almost never paid attention to peripheral chatter. I loved working with them.” Ramirez, who will not be returning for the show’s third season, played a “queer nonbinary Mexican-Irish diva” and Miranda’s (Cynthia Nixon) love interest. Members of the LGTBQ+ community were frustrated that Diaz felt like an annoying caricature of queer stereotypes. Some haters got so intense that Ramirez had to remind fans that Che Diaz is a fictional character: “I am not the fictional characters I have played, nor am I responsible for the things that are written for them to say. I am a human being, an artist, an actor,” they wrote. “[W]e are living in a world that has become increasingly hostile toward anyone who dares to free themselves from the gender binary, or disrupt the mainstream.”
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