’s King: Sexual Labels Are Absurd

"Labeling people by their sexuality is absurd because acting is magic, and movies and the stage are about suspended belief," says Sex and the City 2 director Michael Patrick King, when asked about the controversial Newsweek article in an interview with The Advocate to be published Friday. "This might come as a shock to some people, but Hugh Jackman was not Peter Allen when he was performing that character in The Boy From Oz. Richard Burton wasn't King Arthur when he did Camelot," King says. "It's all an illusion anyway, so the label of actor is all anyone should be talking about."

Asked if he ever considered that Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda in the Sex franchise, might not be believable as a straight character after coming out publicly as lesbian, King says no. "She's such a strong actress, and it's such an amazing character," he says. "That's a real testament to the idea of the split in a personality versus a performance because Cynthia is Miranda. So it never dawned on me for a second to suddenly include ideas that Miranda is gay."

Read the complete interview on Advocate.com Friday.