EDGE Boston

The apartment that Carrie Bradshaw called home for the first three seasons of "Sex and the City" was recently purchased by a mystery buyer for $9.85 million.

Three casinos have bikini beach bars on the sand. Outside the gambling halls, there are a half-dozen strip clubs and a sex swingers/voyeurs club.

It’s the premiere of Sex and the City 2, which women will flock to see and straight men will avoid like the plague. Except for Dieter.

How do you bring a workhorse franchise from merely gay-friendly to probably the queerest thing this summer? The latest, big screen edition of Sex and the City throws caution to the wind and goes straight down the rabbit hole, opening with a gay fantasia on national themes.

Larry Smith talks to actress Cynthia Nixon about her new film, "Sex and the City 2" and her three decade long career.