Miranda Hobbes experienced both love and heartbreak in the Sex and the City spinoff, And Just Like That…, and her relationship with Che Diaz certainly had its highs and lows. Is Sara Ramirez’s character in season 3 of the show?
Is Che in ‘And Just Like That’ Season 3?
It was reported by multiple outlets in February 2024 that Sara’s character was not returning for season 3 of And Just Like That… after two seasons on the show.
Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda, spoke out on Che’s exit from the show one year ahead of the season 3 premiere in May 2025.
“I think for Miranda, Miranda and Che were really pretty done,” Cynthia told Entertainment Weekly in May 2024. “I think that Miranda and Che had kind of run the gamut of what they were going to be to each other.”
Cynthia echoed a similar stance while speaking with Variety that same month.
“I do feel like our show always works best when people are dating,” she said.
“They created such an amazing character — such a controversial character, but such an amazing character,” she said, referring to the character of Che. “I think they felt, and Michael Patrick [King] felt, that that character had run its course. They came in and shook everything up, and then the arc was completed.”
The Emmy winner said that she understood that a lot of people were upset with the arc of Steve’s character, Miranda’s husband, whom she left and got back together with in the first Sex and the City film. In And Just Like That… their relationship came crumbling apart when Miranda met Che and began an affair.
While speaking with Grazia in May 2025, Cynthia said that the “‘poor Steve’ narrative doesn’t really bother me. Our show always killed its darlings. If we’re just gonna play it safe and nice, why are you watching?”
Sara Ramirez and Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia revealed that she suggested Sara, who uses they/them pronouns, for the role of Che.
“I love Che, I love Sara. It’s hard to know what people would have made of Che if Che hadn’t ostensibly broken up Steve and Miranda,” she noted. “But I don’t want a show in which everybody is behaving well all the time. A feminist show doesn’t show women being perfect.”
What Happened Between Che and Miranda on ‘And Just Like That’
Miranda and Che ended up breaking up after their toxic romance hit its breaking point in season 2 of And Just Like That… Their romance was plagued by bickering and tension as Che’s TV pilot ended up failing.
“I think for Che, there’s an incremental ego death process that is occurring over time, with the failure of the pilot, with all of the projections that they internalized during that process, with all the questioning they’ve been doing,” Sara told TVLine in July 2023. “I don’t think they have the capacity to keep the wheels on the car any longer. They don’t have the capacity to continue this fantasy of a bubble of love and friendship and affirmation.”
Cynthia revealed that in season 3, Miranda would be embracing her single era.
“Both the old show and the new show are more fun when people are dating, so Miranda will be dating,” she said.
