Full-frontal male nudity in movies and on TV has officially gone mainstream, and nowhere is the trend more fully embraced than on HBO Max’s new show Minx.
The series centers around an ambitious, female editor (Ophelia Lovibond) in the 1970s who sets out to create the feminist magazine of her dreams. She winds up partnering with a San Fernando Valley pornographer, who convinces her to create the first ever erotic magazine for women, complete with full monty centerfolds.
Actor Taylor Zakhar Perez plays the magazine’s inaugural cover model, and apparently a promo clip he posted to Instagram was deemed too racy for the app.
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The clip in question features Perez walking across a locker room fully nude. However, a large graphic reading “New Episodes” covers his groin.
After the video was taken down, the actor shared the notice he received from the app. “We don’t allow people to facilitate, encourage or coordinate sexual activity on Instagram,” it reads.
“Guess you’ll have to go to @HBOMax to watch,” he added, perhaps spinning it into an even more effective promotion for the series.
It’s possible the removal was due to Instagram’s trigger-happy algorithm that scans for nudity and sexual content, or that it was human error.
The same clip appears uncensored on the show’s official @minxonmax account:
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Perez also re-uploaded it to his account, where it is still available:
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New episodes of Minx air Thursdays on HBO Max.
Doug
I’ve been watching the show. It’s entertaining, but the guy’s equipment is very clearly a prosthetic, especially in the uncensored version of the clip.
Jaquelope
Where can that be found?
LunaSol2010
Sad to say. It is not a prosthetic.
Photo on wall shows a 6″ soft phallus. Hes a grower as well. How do I know? Film crew hear things. And in a scene with his punch and Editor on desk in office he was wearing a very very stretched out modesty pouch. Definitely not fake. Soft to Hard it is obvious ic you were there. I was there a few .oaths ago filling in last minute for a last minute sub set crew for no show. My name got put. Under the table volunteered not paid. Vetted references and hired for 1 week. I think we know that saying and seeing are two different things.
chris_clb614
I noticed, in the episode I watched, all the guys auditioning for the cover looked real. That’s the caveat of male full frontal- it’s almost never a main cast member or the lead character. Unless we’re talking about Michael Fassbender in Shame or Jason Segel in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
AZ71
This clip is everywhere. I appreciate the 4-5 guys showering naked in it and letting their true sizes show…when this guy walks away with such an obvious prosthetic…it ruined the scene and makes me wonder…why cant you be proud of what you have regardless of its size. (*Note to Hollywood. You really need to improve the pubic hair area of prosthetics. That is what was horrendous. If it weren’t for that the actual flopping shaft wasn’t that unrealistic).
bachy
Part of the problem with casting a male centerfold, especially in this particular comedy, is that the character is meant to have an impressively LARGE schlong. How would one hold auditions for that with non-porn actors? It would be easier casting a woman with large boobs, as they’re more common and more obvious in, say, a swimsuit. But if they wanted this actor to play the centerfold (and I thought he was perfect for it), they will probably need to use prosthetics.
Troyfight
Just use some porn actors for some of these parts – tons of good-looking guys that don’t have to do much in projects like these. Solved. Instagram wants us all to be sexless – que the Georgia Guidestones.
Polaro
Well, I am all for more wieners in shows.