As we learned this week, a promo for HBO Max’s new show Minx was temporarily deemed too racy for Instagram.
Actor Taylor Zakhar Perez shared the clip to his personal account, but soon had it taken down by the app, which also sent him a message about violating its guidelines.
While the promo was later restored — we’re still not sure what the issue was to begin with — the series, which centers around an ambitious, female editor (Ophelia Lovibond) in the 1970s who creates the first-ever erotic magazine for women, features several shots that only a subscription network like HBO can get away with.
Included among them are some revealing scenes with Perez, and they seem to have earned him some new diehard fans:
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All jokes aside Taylor Zakhar Perez’s the new IT BOY!! I want fashion campaigns!!! GLOBAL ONES #minxhbo pic.twitter.com/GUZ4T8xkOy
— VogueChild (@VogueChilee) March 25, 2022
i have a new favorite himbo and it’s taylor zakhar perez in minx
— mars ? (@ma_rs_) March 29, 2022
If #Minx were a real magazine I would so totally subscribe! #Retro?? @hbomax @TaylorZakharP #TaylorZakharPerez pic.twitter.com/skrMy5rMvz
— Ron Klopfanstein (@RonKlopfanstein) March 26, 2022
Fake penis aside, I'm totally IN LOVE with #TaylorZakharPerez, both his 70's persona than his real one. ??????? #Minx #HBO #HBOMax pic.twitter.com/xuOMy7c91e
— Daniele Villari (@deniols89) March 25, 2022
Taylor Zakhar Perez, get inside me ? pic.twitter.com/3gyBmHFJD9
— Allen Johnson (@AllenJo27552466) March 26, 2022
The 30-year-old Chicago native, who has appeared in two Kissing Booth films and several TV shows, is also no stranger to posting the occasional Instagram thirst trap:
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CatholicXXX
Do people not realize that it was a prosthetic? A bad one at that too.
ncman
when is anyone going to acknowledge the actors in the audition scene and the shower scene who showed their actual real packages?
justme86
A lot of junior artists are not commended enough for their presence. It has been happening since GOT, Euphoria and even way before that. And, it will continue to happen. Part of the struggle.
Res1
He looks like Jacob Elordi a bit.
nm4047
Also in the Kissing Booth.
AZ71
It was a terrible prosthetic and actually made him look dumb compared to the other 5 guys in the shower he was preaching to who were fully naked with their real dicks hanging out. I dont care what size Taylor is in real life..it would have been stronger better scene to own what he has in real life.
*And note to Hollywood….get better prosthetics. The pubic stick-on hair is what ruined it.
JT in Texas
Yes! That final scene in the locker room looked SO bad and obviously. I get it if an actor doesn’t want to bare all, but at least put some more budget into the prosthetics.
Donston
The whole “controversy” just reads as a marketing strategy. Using rather obvious prosthetics/cgi and pics that you know Instagram is gonna take down for some buzz.
justme86
Okay, Einstein. Aren’t you the same person who is accusing him of ‘de-gaying’ his Instagram. Firstly, it’s okay if he wants to keep his sexuality private. That’s his choice and you can are free to unfollow or even block his profile if it hurts you that he is unwilling to share his personal life with you. Secondly, the guy that you are referring to as his long -term bf, that’s his cousin. His name is Garret. And he removed those pics because back in 2020, people like you assumed there was something going on only because he has posted pics with him, and they spammed the DMs of Garret as well. Due to which, Garret went private. So please stop with your nonsense about his personal life and sexuality. It sucks and puts unnecessary pressure on people.
bachy
I think the humor in the episode had to revolve around how “endowed” he was. They chose Taylor for his talent as an actor, and just added on the “endowment.”
His unassuming, sexy shyness was what made the character on MINX so appealing. But now that I’ve seen his 700 thousand Insta selfies, he’s clearly just another narcissist on a self-promotional world tour. A boner-killer if there ever was one.
white-queer-african
AGREED!
Donston
He’s someone who apparently has a long-term bf and was okay with people knowing that. But as soon as he started to gain popularity, he began de-gaying his social media, deleting pics of him in gay clubs and pics with him with his bf. He’s another dude who’s willing to sellout and pretty much do anything for his career and for public attention and validation. It is what it is. He is a good-looking dude with sexy legs though.
justme86
Wait. Did you just call him a narcissist because he has put his selfies on Instagram? Who else should he be putting? Yours? Clearly, that won’t do well for his career. And it is a good thing to be self-promotional. In fact, for upcoming actors, they have to be self-promotional. Get some sense into your brain.
Bosch
His merkin looked like spray-on hair. How did we have realistic dinosaurs in the first Jurassic Park, but 25 years later we still can’t do realistic pubes?
Jim
Why do men shave their chests. They’re men!!
Is it the feminization of men or some youth obsession?
Donston
It’s… not that deep. Men of been shaving or trimming their body hair since forever.
justme86
Absence or presence of body hair has not a lot to do with gender- it’s time we realised that.
Ken A.
A prosthetic. When the boys in Euphoria showed their actual dicks except Eric Dane for some reason, he has nice one too for those who saw his nudes, in the show he wore a prosthetic. Elordi didn’t do frontal nudes, he just went shirtless and bared his butt occasionally. Demos showed his big meat.
Bromancer7
Demos’ dick was fake.
nm4047
so is he Str8 or Gay? Don’t care about the prosthetic.
justme86
Let him announce it, as and when he feels like it and is comfortable. That’s his personal life and has nothing to do with you.
phillycap
I don’t it has anything to do with the size of his package, which I presume is perfectly adequate. The whole arc of the character is that he was super hung. So like Mark Walhberg’s character in Boogie Nights, they had a super hung prosthetic…. just goes to show you, it’s hard to make a fake penis look real…….. Lovely looking man, though.
Dave
Is anybody else THIRSTY cause gurl I am parched!