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Sex and the City’s Tweety Bird tattoo star Ian Kahn has mirrored on turning into a Gen Z heartthrob amid a brand new wave of present fanatics.
On 1 April, the ultra-loved, raunch but heartwarming collection – starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall, and Kristin Davis – made its method onto Netflix, widening its cult following to incorporate a younger era of tv addicts. Though the discourse has been fairly skewed by way of lovers versus haters, one factor’s for certain: Gen Z can’t get Ben – the politics journal editor with the tattoo of Tweety on his shoulder – out of their heads.
Played by Kahn, 51, the basic ‘90s “sweet boy” with round spectacles only appears in one season two episode entitled “Freak Show”. But his 30-minute feature has sent fans into a frenzy over him. Kahn may no longer be working in Hollywood, yet his SATC character has brought him right back into the limelight.
Next to side-by-side screenshots of Kahn from his SATC cameo, one enamored fan on X, formerly known as Twitter, wrote: “He is soooo boyfriend shaped… boys just don’t seem like this anymore.”
Three days after the present’s launch on Netflix, one other starstruck viewer pleaded: “Ben from the second season of Sex and the City come SAVE MEEEE.”
“Remember Ben, the politics magazine editor Carrie dates (and fumbles) in season two of Sex and the City? He’s a Democratic political communications consultant now. I regret to inform you he’s just as perfect as his SATC character, if not more so,” a 3rd X consumer mentioned.
In an 18 April interview with Rolling Stone, Kahn opened up about his function as “Ben” and what turning into a “sex symbol among Gen Z years after” meant to him.
Kahn began by admitting he had the largest crush on Parker earlier than he came upon concerning the half.
“I was terribly young for this part. But I had such a crush on Sarah Jessica Parker growing up watching her on Square Pegs, that my agent called me,” he defined. “So I met him at like seven at night and he was like, ‘I got something for you, bub,’ because that’s how he talks. And I said, ‘What is it?’ And he said, ‘It’s to play Sarah Jessica Parker’s boyfriend on Sex and the City.’”
Initially, the response to his character wasn’t something notable. Kahn remembers folks recognising him however not figuring out “where they know me from”. There had been additionally followers of the present that knew it was him, even with out the prop glasses he wore as Ben.
Now, Ben has develop into an entire new beast, and the character idolised because the “ideal boyfriend”.
“I think it’s nice. He’s a really good character. He wasn’t perfect because nobody’s perfect. But he was kind. And I think it’s sweet,” Kahn confessed. “I’ll say this: I think it’s great that people could look at somebody who is an authentically kind man and see the upside of that, that people still do want to be in relationships where it’s about kindness and empathy and love because he was a thoughtful guy.
“I like that women want to meet men who are kind, and not just strong and not just tough, because it’s not our way forward to show our best selves at all,” he continued. “[We] need to elevate how we care for each other in this world to survive as a species, really. We’re at an inflection point in how we handle ourselves moving forward. And kindness is the way.”
