In a Sex And The City expose, show creator, Michael Patrick King has revealed that he banned Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda Hobbs in the series, from eating during shooting because her loud grazing drowns out the dialogue of her cast members.
“There’s only one thing I avoided having Cynthia do on all the years of Sex and the City, and that was to eat on camera,” Michael quipped. “I discovered early in the first season, when I wrote that Miranda eats in a coffee shop, Cynthia would eat in the coffee shop. I mean, chew and bite with gusto. There were times you couldn’t even hear the other girls’ lines. Seriously, all the girls would get to pick what they wanted in the coffee shop scenes, and Kristin and SJ would pick salads, and Kim would pick blueberries, and Cynthia, I’d look over, would be eating a cheeseburger. Like, eight cheeseburgers! And every time a new one arrived, she was even more delighted than the last.”