Minx star Jessica Lowe spoke about falling 'head over heels' for co-star Oscar Montoya, that 'hot kiss' between Doug and Tina and what Joyce and Bambi have to learn from one another
“I think I tend to get cast as a well-meaning dum-dum, and I always blame it on my little baby voice,” Lowe explains. “But I feel like Bambi is so nuanced. She’s come from a hard background that’s almost mysterious, and seeing her in the beginning to now, feeling that maybe some of her power can rely outside of her sexuality and her ability to be flirty and attract people — that’s been fascinating to watch.
The dichotomy between Joyce and Bambi in the Bottom Dollar offices says a lot about women and power in the porn industry and larger society. What were you hoping Bambi’s experience might say about women in their working environment? Among you, Ophelia Lovibond and Idara Victor, were you ever having conversations about how your characters might represent those different sides of feminism through your respective arcs or were you just going with the writing and playing out your characters’ development from the gut?
I think it’s growing. I do feel like Doug and Tina have set up an egalitarian, sex-positive commune for all of these wayward characters. And I do feel like Bambi has been given the ability to write her own story in this environment versus all of these guys — like all of her stalkers, say — see her as a different type of being. But Doug, specifically, allows her to be the centerfold coordinator for a new periodical.
Well, first of all, I fell head over heels with Oscar. Like truly, there is no one better to hang out with in a green room. He’s just so talented and so aggressively funny. Anything with him is a blast. I love going to that fancy party in episode seven, “God Save the Queen of Dicks.” It was hysterical to see him shine with me acting as the wing woman as we walked in and then immediately abandoning him.