'Hack Job:' 'AJLT' Star Sara Ramirez Claps Back at Magazine's Profile

Sara Ramirez, who plays Che Diaz on "And Just Like That...", took to Instagram to deliver a response to a profile, published in New York Magazine's The Cut in June, that the non-binary actor called a "Hack Job."

Vanity Fair reported that Ramirez, 47, posted their response on Instagram on Aug. 22 – perhaps not coincidentally the same day that news dropped of a third season being greenlit for the "Sex and the City" sequel series.

Ramirez posted that they had spent the months since the original article was published "thinking long and hard about how to respond to The Hack Job's article, 'written' by a white gen z non-binary person who asked me serious questions but expected a comedic response I guess (?)."

In their Instagram post, Ramirez advised fans, "Here's the good news: I have a dry sense of humor and a voice. And I am not afraid to use either."

The actor then fired away: "I trust that those of you who matter, who are not petulant children, who are smart enough to catch on to what was actually going on there, can perceive it for what it is: an attempt to mock my thoughtfulness and softness, while dismissing a valid existence and real human being in favor of tv show critiques that belonged elsewhere."

As previously reported, Brock Colyar wrote in the piece that Ramirez's character, a stand-up comic named Che Diaz, "is there to teach the well-maintained, well-meaning, nearly 60-year-old ladies about 'compulsory heterosexuality,' pronounspeak, and using dialogue as a verb."

Ramirez addressed the backlash to Che Diaz, telling Colyar, "I think there are people like Che out in the world, and I think that opinions about whether Che is representing an authentically queer person or not is not for me to answer," and offering the insight that "Anybody who benefits from patriarchy is going to have a problem with Che Diaz."

But Colyar wrote that critics of the character don't necessarily all fall into the category of those one might expect to be such beneficiaries from the patriarchal status quo, and cited the "eye-rolling from the (mostly younger) queer people I know, who found the character a hyperbolized, hypercringe representation of nonbinary identity," Vanity Fair noted.

Colyar said they had also spoken with Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda Hobbes. That character, one of the original "SATC" foursome, outraged fans when she left her longtime husband, Steve, after becoming sexually involved with Che Diaz. Fans of the "SATC" franchise had not taken kindly to the end of Miranda and Steve's marriage, and Colyar wrote that when they talked about their own response to that story development, Nixon responded, "like a therapist, 'Do you want to unpack that to me?'"

Both Nixon and Ramirez, Colyar wrote, "seem to believe the reaction [to Che] has more to do with a societal discomfort around gender-nonconforming people, rather than a hope coming from actual queer people that we be portrayed as less lame."

In their Instagram post, Ramirez pointed out that however people might respond to Che Diaz, Ramirez is "not the fictional characters I have played, nor am I responsible for the things that are written for them to say. I am a human being, an artist, an actor."

The actor went on to add: "when a cis man is in charge and has ultimate control of dialogue actors say, and you have a valid problem with it, perhaps you should be interviewing him."

Ramirez saved their best one-liner for the end. In the June profile, Colyar wrote that that they had a joint with them while interviewing Ramirez, and, despite the tendency of Che Diaz to spark up at inappropriate moments on the show, "I didn't offer it to them. I wasn't sure they would get the joke, or think it funny."

"Further proof that this 'writer' knows little more about me than a Google search provides, I would have happily smoked that joint with them," Ramirez wrote, true to their claim of a dry sense of humor.