This week onMinx,it’s all about the music.
While Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond) romances Graham (Nash?)
“They’re partying with people who are cool.
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And the coolest people in the early ’70s were the rock stars.
That’s what really was happening.
A lot of the realPlaygirleditors were hanging out with rock stars specifically.
If we had gotten very deep with these stories, then we probably would’ve fictionalized them.
Rapoport says not naming him was a purposeful creative choice.
“I felt like it was cooler not to say it,” she says.
“And if you got it, you got it.
If not, you just thought he was this hot guy.”
“I couldn’t have done that to him.
Graham Nash was hot, and I liked the groupie angle of the other band members.
He was hot and British and a bit of an intellectual too.
It seemed like somebody that I could see Joyce getting into.”
One thing Joyce isn’t into Club Minx.
It’s surprisingly tasteful for a Doug Renetti production.
“This is his version of honoring feminism, which is a little misguided.
But I also think that it would’ve been incredibly successful.
He’s evolved past making Chippendales.
He knows that his brand is classy sexuality, or what he thinks of as classy.”
“He just doesn’t have a say.”
Lovibond explains further, saying, “It’s a fantastic idea.
It’s not something the magazine would endorse.
Rapoport echoes this, noting, “Joyce likes it.
She just doesn’t want to be the one responsible for putting it in the world.
Cause it is a little trashy.”
That’s how I looked at it with Joyce.
She’s wrapped her head around the idea that Minx is cool.Rolling Stoneis there.
This feels crassly commercial.
It feels too trashy for her.
It’s not sexy and classy.”
These interviews were conducted prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
