For the cast of Minx, they were able to live it, or at least a reimagined version of it.

“I loved it. I feel like I might have been born in the wrong time, to be honest. I’ve always thought that maybe I was a backup singer in the seventies prior to my birth,” Lennon Parham, who plays Shelly, jokes.

For a woman of color in that time period, Idara Victor, who plays Tina, enjoyed it from a different perspective.

“I did a little research around the 70s and tried to figure out what it would be like for a Black woman at that time working in an office, but it was such a unique office,” she explained. “The writing really helped me when it came to that because the way that the relationships were written really gave me insight into who Tina was in relation to these other people…And then the clothes help. It really took like the process, the full process of stepping into each next phase of the creation of it to like start to understand a little bit who this person is. And it just kept building throughout the season.”

Idara Victor

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