‘Minx’ Star Lennon Parham Talks ‘Working With Dongs’ and ‘Living in a Sensual Pigsty’
14.04.2022 - 19:07
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Selome Hailu SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not seen “A Scintillating Conversation About a Lethal Pesticide” and “You Happened to Me,” Episodes 9 and 10 of “Minx.”“You didn’t ask me about working with dongs!” says Lennon Parham at the end of an interview about her role in “Minx.” “That was a first. In one scene, an actor, Nate [Crnkovich], had on a prosthetic [penis], and it was arresting. We were totally shocked and couldn’t look away.
Then, everybody just got used to it.”Such is life, Parham supposes, when you’re shooting ‘70s pornography, which is what the characters in “Minx” do. In the HBO Max comedy, created by Ellen Rapoport, Parham plays Shelly, the older sister of Joyce Prigger (Ophelia Lovibond). Joyce has just launched the feminist magazine she’s been dreaming of her entire life — with a catch: the only person who would help her get it off the ground is Doug Renetti (Jake Johnson), a publisher of erotic magazines.
Thus, Minx is born, becoming the first porn mag aimed at female readers (and featuring male … members). When Shelly first appears in the pilot, she comes across as the platonic ideal of a ‘70s housewife. But as the season presses on, it becomes clear that she’s more open-minded than her activist sister.
Joyce is terrified to talk about sex, or to let herself enjoy sex to begin with, until Shelly gently pushes her, revealing that she owns vibrators and enjoys looking at the men who appear in the pages of Minx. At the same time, she begins to further explore her own sexuality. After admitting to her husband Lenny (Rich Sommer) that he isn’t satisfying her in bed, she tries escaping into fantasies involving Fabio-like characters in lavish costumes, but gets too distracted and anxious for it to
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