'Minx' Cast on Male Nudity and the Series' Unexpected Connection to 'Pam & Tommy' (Exclusive)
etonline.comfandom was starting to peak, there was growing criticism around sexualized, female nudity often seen on the HBO series, especially compared to the lack of any stripping down seen by its male cast members.
Now, seven years later, in the year of the penis, there’s far more male full frontal onscreen than ever before, with outdoing with its own montage of male genitalia in the premiere episode.
Ahead of its revealing debut, the cast, including Jake Johnson and Ophelia Lovibond, and creator Ellen Rapoport of the HBO Max workplace comedy open up to ET about the inspiration for the series, embracing all the nudity and ’s unexpected connection to, another series that bared all onscreen.
Inspired by the magazines, like, and, tells the story about an unlikely duo – a young feminist named Joyce (Lovibond) and a low-rent publisher named Doug (Johnson) – who come together to launch the first erotic publication marketed to straight women. “It just felt like a way to tell a period story that was set in a specific moment in time that we were able to look at through our modern lens,” Rapoport tells ET’s Rachel Smith about diving into these real-life workplaces populated by feminist and pornographers working together to publish what was considered at the time an erotic feminist magazine, that mixed naked photos of men with articles about abortion, rape and sexual harassment.
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