(CNN) — Rosie O’Donnell has moved an ocean away from Hollywood, but she’s still entertaining audiences.

The actress and former talk show host how she ended up playing a lesbian nun having a New York City adventure in “And Just Like That…,” which returned for its third season on HBO Max on Thursday. O’Donnell explained that she has long been friends with Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda on the comedy and its prequel, “Sex and the City.”

“My daughter was actually her assistant on set,” O’Donnell explained. “She put her on there, and then she said, ‘By the way, Michael told me that he has a role for you. Are you up for it?’ I said, ‘Are you kidding me? In a minute!’ I didn’t even have to think about it.”

O’Donnell has also known the show’s creator, Michael Patrick King, for more than 30 y

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