It’s a new day for the women’s erotic magazine.
Minxis back and bigger than ever.
“She is becoming self-absorbed, and it’s one of her flaws,” Lovibond tells EW.
Jake Johnson and Ophelia Lovibond in ‘Minx’.John Johnson/Starz
“One of the things I found attractive about Joyce to begin with was that she’s not perfect.
She makes mistakes, but women are allowed to make mistakes.
It doesn’t mean you have to be completely written off as a terrible person.
You just need to learn from them.
You see Joyce believing in her hype and she’s never had this popularity or notoriety before.
She’s getting swept up in it.”
“She’s been given all of this money and attention out of nowhere,” she continues.
“It would be quite strange to take that in stride and not have it affect you remotely.
This season explores what happens when someone is given that and isn’t used to it.”
But what about Joyce’s sister Shelly?
Only that might not be as easy as she hoped.
“You’re going to see a push and pull,” says Parham.
“Bambi for Shelly is a bit of kryptonite.
“She hasn’t been taken seriously,” says Lowe.
“She’s owned her looks and that’s it.
“Her efforts are not being appreciated the way that she deserves for them to be.
She’s trying to figure out what she needs to do to break out of that.
But what will that mean going forward?
“The biggest challenge is the artistic credibility versus making money,” Montoya teases.
“Which as an artist, that’s something that we can all relate to.
These interviews were conducted prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
