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Speaking with Net-A-Porter’s digital magazine The Edit, she explained: “A lot of what you see on television is artificial, particularly what you see on the camera. But so much of the time, what really succeeds is the 'realer' [stories]... it can be dressed up in a lot of a different ways.

“And that's one of the Sex and the City things – every plot-line that happened literally happened to someone in the writers’ room, or happened to someone they directly knew. So even though some of them were fantastical and absurd, it was based on a real thing.”

Cynthia Nixon says Sex and the City was based on a true story