“Classy.” So the pilot includes a minute-long scene in which about 18 men audition, bottomless, for the privilege.
“Not like a schvantz right in the face,” Doug says. Doug convinces Joyce that they should collaborate on a new one, Minx, an erotic magazine for women modeled on real ’70s titles like Viva and Playgirl.Īn erotic magazine needs a centerfold, of course. It stars Ophelia Lovibond as Joyce, a hard-line feminist who becomes enmeshed with Doug (Jake Johnson), a publisher of soft-core magazines like Secretary Secrets and Feet Feet Feet. “Minx,” a cheeky comedy set in 1970s Southern California, swaggers onto HBO Max on Thursday. “I just wanted it all.” (The photos were not of the actors’ faces.) “Like: small ones, big ones, crooked ones, foreskin,” Rapoport recalled. A year and a half ago, when it came time to cast a particular scene in the pilot episode of “Minx,” the showrunner Ellen Rapoport sifted through hundreds of photos of background actors, which had already been sorted into piles.
