HBO’s new drama Minx follows the creation of a fictitious feminist magazine in the 1970s which uses Playgirl-style cover and centerfold models as a Trojan horse for more radical ideas. Given the show’s premise, it will come as no surprise that there is male nudity aplenty.
Taylor Zakhar Perez plays Shane, a firefighter and Minx‘s inaugural cover model. In a recent interview, Perez revealed that he wore a prosthetic penis in his nude scenes, and feels that the racy content helps to build out the world of the show.
“I’m all for it,” Perez told Entertainment Weekly. “If the project and the scenes call for it, why not? But I think just to throw a bare-chested woman or ass-out guy into the scene without it making sense, then it’s gratuitous and takes away from the quality of the content.”
Perez is the latest in a growing number of actors to wear prosthetic phalluses on-screen, including the stars in other shows which have recently featured full-frontal nudity, including Hulu’s Pam & Tommy and HBO’s The White Lotus, And Just Like That, and Euphoria. These watercooler moments represent a noticeable increase in male nudity on television over the last year or so; in addition to the aforementioned prosthetic phalluses, Adam Demos bared his own penis in a shower scene in Netflix’s Sex/Life last year—a moment that went viral.
As we see more male nudity on TV, producers are also taking care to ensure performers are looked after on set by hiring intimacy coordinators during nude and sex scenes. For his part, Perez felt “supported on set” while filming and also praised the creative team behind Minx for fostering a “safe environment” for the actors.
“The show is very scandalous,” he said, “and there has to be that level of trust between you and the actors that you’re with, especially if there’s naked people around and you’re not covered up, and you’re in a conversation, and you’re like OK, I need to respect this person’s space, but then also talk about the project and about the scene.”
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Perez, who until now was best known for the Kissing Booth movies, went on to compare Shane—who might be called a “himbo” in modern parlance—to Ashton Kutcher’s character Kelso from the sitcom That ’70s Show, and spoke about how he tried to find levels to the character.
“When [people] see a stereotypical dumb blonde or dumb jock, they go straight to [thinking] they don’t have emotion, they don’t understand the world, they’re unintelligent,” he said. “I knew from the beginning that he wasn’t that. The biggest thing was grounding him, making him likable, and also playing against the line.”
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