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Cynthia Nixon has opened up about how her friend Rosie O'Donnell landed a role in the third season of And Just Like That...
Nixon, 59, exclusively told PEOPLE that O'Donnell, 63, was cast in the show after years of trying to write a part for her. "Michael Patrick King, who writes our show, and is one of the chief writers on our show, has been trying to write a part for Rosie every season and it's never quite worked out," Nixon said.
This time, however, Nixon was the one who reached out to O'Donnell with the idea. "So this time when he told me what the idea was, I thought, 'Oh this is fantastic,' and he let me text her myself and describe it and say, you know, could we please send you this script?' With all our fingers and toes crossed," Nixon recalled.
O'Donnell plays the role of Sister Mary, a nun visiting New York City who breaks her chastity vow to lose her virginity to Nixon's character Miranda Hobbes.
Nixon had nothing but good things to say about O'Donnell's performance. "She is so funny and she is so funny in the part, but she's so centered and so real," Nixon told PEOPLE. "I think that we knew she would be hilarious, but I think we were unprepared for how moving she would be in the part, how incredibly sincere and how much she would wear her heart on her sleeve."
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New episodes of And Just Like That... drop weekly on Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO Max.
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