The flak against 'And Just Like That' 'shocked' Sarita Choudhury. But she welcomes it
A recent episode of "And Just Like That…" featured a tableau instantly familiar to fans of "Sex and the City": Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte sitting around a cafe table trading pithy one-liners about their personal lives over brunch.
One thing, however, was Earth-shatteringly different: The women were joined, for the first time, by Seema Patel, the glamorous real estate agent played by Sarita Choudhury in the HBO Max revival series.
The enormity of the moment was not lost on Choudhury: "I saw it in the script and I was like, 'What? I'm at the table?!'" the actor said via Zoom from her home in downtown Manhattan.
One of four new characters of color introduced in the reboot, which attempts to tell a more inclusive story than the original series, Seema is fabulous and successful with a saucy wit — a suitable successor to Samantha, who is absent from the series, save for a few text messages.
She quickly bonds with a grieving Carrie over their shared love of furtive cigarettes, but she is also insecure about being
