But the thing I never liked about the show was how incredibly white it was.

In the premiere, Miranda says, “We can’t just stay who we are.”

Let’s not tread water.

That’s what’s happening with Miranda.

The Trump years and the Black Lives Matter movement really were a wake-up call for her.

She was a corporate lawyer."

Miranda’s first meeting with her Black professor, Dr. Nya Wallace, was very awkward.

Were you surprised at how Miranda handled it when you first read it on the page?

One of the things about Miranda is she’s very brave.

She’s not afraid to stick her neck out and she never has been.

It’s easier to keep silent.

[Laughs]

Can you give us a little preview of Miranda’s evolving friendship with Nya?

They really are interested in each other and admire each other.

Nya is contemplating having a family and wants to bend Miranda’s ear about how do you do that?

At home, meanwhile, Miranda is dealing with her sexually active son Brady and his practically live-in girlfriend.

What can you tell us about how this parenting challenge will play out?

It’s very challenging.

And made all the more challenging by the pandemic.

It’s like, there’s a plague outside.

What are they gonna do [instead]?

Go to parties and have sex in a basement?

We need to talk about that shotgun moment between Che and Miranda.

It certainly played as a very intimate and charged moment between them.

Is that the vibe you guys were going for?

I don’t know.

I think you’re seeing something there that’s just not there.

[Laughs]

Agree to disagree on that.

But tell me about shooting that scene Sara said it was one of their first days on set?

The very first thing that Sara had to shoot was that whole [stand-up] routine.

And Sara’s not a stand-up.

Also, we are aware that entering theSex and the Cityuniverse is a lot.

It was great fun, and we had such amazing background players that day.

People were asked to come as themselves.

What can you preview about Miranda’s relationship with Che as the season progresses?

Miranda, like the rest of us, loves control.

She’s always figuring things out so she can be in control of everything.

Well, she can’t right?

She can’t be in control of going back to school and being 30 years older than everyone else.

She can’t be in control of her sexually active, pot-smoking, semi-defiant son.

She can’t be in control of these feelings she’s having out of absolutely nowhere.

It’s like, let’s throw her for a loop and see what happens.