Initially premiering on HBO Max (which was later rebranded as Max) in March of final 12 months, minx had been renewed for a second season. By December, Season 2 was nearly wrapped with filming when it was all of a sudden reported that Max had canceled the sequence. The longer term for the present regarded bleak, however Starz got here in for the save quickly after, selecting up minx for its second season. Now, in a brand new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Johnson is reflecting on that complete ordeal, revealing how the announcement took him by full shock.
“I discovered with everyone else when the information broke,” Johnson says, mentioning the way it was a enterprise determination that was nonetheless fairly shady. “It was extra of an existential hit, for me. It wasn’t inventive or private. It was simply an enormous company doing a snakey numbers transfer. The extra these folks hold pushing, the much less it’s about artwork and creativity and the extra it’s about information.F***ing gross.”
Johnson additionally described the sensation on the set wrapping up Season 2 after it was introduced that the present was canceled at Max. The actor remembers how the minx solid is “so candy” and “so new era,” and so they didn’t react angrily as Johnson may need accomplished together with his New Lady co-stars years in the past if that’s what occurred to them. With that mentioned, Johnson was fast to find that hope for the present’s future was nonetheless alive, as he explains, “I’ve develop into a veteran, so I contacted a pal at Lionsgate and he defined that we weren’t useless. This present was profitable for the studio domestically and internationally. There have been already three streamers exhibiting curiosity. The query wasn’t if we’d discover a house. It was, ‘Who desires us probably the most and why?’”
Whether or not minx will get one other season at Starz stays to be seen, although even when the present finally ends up concluding with Season 2, that’s higher than having the finished episodes shelved, by no means to see the sunshine of day. For what it’s price, Johnson is staying optimistic that he’ll have the ability to come again and do a 3rd season of the sequence. He instructed THR, “I would like minx to get a 3rd season. I actually wish to see [my character] Doug within the ’80s, to see what occurs when he does cocaine for the primary time. Proper now, I really feel like there’s an ocean of stuff in a Doug kind.”
Season 2 of minx Premieres on Starz on July 21, 2023.
Supply: The Hollywood Reporter
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