Miranda Hobbes taking a nun's virginity was not on our And Just Like That bingo card for season 3, but, in some ways, it's classic Sex and the City energy. And we're all in for our favorite redhead's sloppy dating era.

Cynthia Nixon shares her initial reaction to reading the scripts for the premiere episode, which sees her character meeting a woman (Rosie O'Donnell) at a lesbian bar, going back to her hotel room, and waking up the next morning to discover she actually slept with a nun who's obsessed with Broadway and the M&M's store.

"I think our show is always at its most quintessential when as many of us as possible are single and dating and failing at it," Nixon tells Entertainment Weekly. "So obviously Miranda, not having a lot of luck at the bars, not having a lot of luck figuring out even how to meet people, winding up in bed with a nun who was also coincidentally a virgin is really not her idea of how she wanted to start out this endeavor."

She further shares how showrunner Michael Patrick King and his team of writers wrote all these parts with O'Donnell in mind over the years, but this season 3 casting finally worked out. "This was maybe the most perfect, I think," Nixon comments on the comedienne's role. "Rosie and I have known each other for a long time. I was like, 'Shall I text her?' And [King] was like, 'Sure!' And she was wonderfully excited about the prospect, so we had a great time. And her daughter was my assistant this past season, so that was wild, too."

In a separate conversation with EW, King says Miranda "was always the most awkward of the daters" out of Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw, Kristin Davis' Charlotte York-Goldenblatt, and Kim Cattrall's Samantha Jones.

"It was always the most fun to put the most surprising person across a Miranda," he continues. "So when we were thinking, What's it like for Miranda to be dating again? we tried to think of a character that we hadn't ever seen on television or in the movies or on our show. It came up to a virgin, which is already a story; and then secondly, maybe the first time with a woman is another story; and then finally, first time with anyone because they are a nun."

He remembers the moment he pitched the character to O'Donnell. "I called her up and said, 'Do you want to be on the show? Miranda sleeps with you, and you're a nun?' She's like, 'Yes!'" King recalls. "She's also brought in so much more than that joke. She brought in a real human being who's vulnerable and sweet and funny and a tourist, which is of course, completely the best. What Carrie says: 'I don't know if it's worse [that] you slept with a nun or a tourist.'"

We will never forget O'Donnell singing "For Good" from Wicked in the middle of Times Square. Something tells us Miranda won't either.