'And Just Like That' star Nicole Ari Parker wants there to be 'more sex' if the HBO show comes back for season 2

• Nicole Ari Parker wants "more sex" if "And Just Like That" returns for a second season.
• Her character Lisa Todd Wexley originally had a sex scene planned in season one, Parker told Insider.

Nicole Ari Parker wants Lisa Todd Wexley to have more intimate scenes if "And Just Like That" returns for a second season.

"I would like to have a little more sex," Parker, who is promoting her partnership with Lipton Tea, told Insider when asked about what she wants for her character in a potential second season.

She also revealed that there was initially a "great" sex scene between Lisa and her husband Herbert Wexley (Christopher Jackson) that was ultimately cut from the first season.

"We had this really wonderful, funny sex scene written but because of the schedule and time and COVID and everything, it was one of the scenes that didn't make it," Parker said. "So, maybe in the second season, it will come back. If there is one, we don't know yet."

"And Just Like That" brought back Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) as well as new characters, Nya (Karen Pittman), Che (Sara Ramírez), Seema (Sarita Choudhury) and Lisa (Parker).

When discussing the diverse cast with Vogue in November, Sarah Jessica Parker said, "In no way were we interested in tokenism. You can't bring people on the show and not let the camera be with them! These characters are all gifts to us."

When asked about the "tokenism" criticism, Nicole Ari Parker told Insider: "When you're playing catch-up it could be heavy-handed."

"But the actors they hired and putting Black people and different voices in the writers' room really showed that, in the confines of this show, there was going to be bumps and there was going to be messiness," she said.

"But the attempt was very well-thought-out and very respectful," she continued, adding, "Everything is suspect, everything requires evaluation and not everything is perfect. It got bumpy sometimes and messy and awkward but that's what art is. You have to try."

A second season of "And Just Like That" hasn't yet been commissioned but HBO Max's chief content officer Casey Bloys recently hinted that the "Sex and the City" revival is likely to return.

"It's really Michael Patrick King and Sarah Jessica [Parker] talking to figure out if there's a story they're excited by," Bloys told Deadline on Wednesday. "I think there will be, but they're talking and making sure they want to jump in. It's a big commitment, and they'll come to us and let us know what they're thinking but I'm feeling good about it."