I didn’t know any of that good, juicy stuff before I said yes.
How did that factor into your interest in the role and the series as a whole? Now, Minx focuses a ton on women’s sexuality and women’s liberation, and your character Shelly has a very unique experience with her own understanding of herself. Photograph by Katrina Marcinowski / HBO Max Lennon Parham and Ophelia Lovibond in the series premiere of Minx.
Because I think, as we all know, a lot of women have very intense relationships with their own women friends, or they have relationships in their life, I should say, that are non-romantic, that take up a big place in our lives, and we felt like that wasn’t really out there. Not complicated, not holding more than one type of woman inside, and I feel like as women we were like, “Oh, we know how to showcase our own funny, we know how to tell these stories, why don’t we do it?” So writing that pilot, and then Best Friends Forever, and then Playing House, that all came out of a necessity for us to do that, to be able to play women that were more than one thing and also showcase a relationship that wasn’t a romantic relationship. It felt like women were being written in a very straightforward, narrow way. We were both auditioning for parts that were narrow. Clair and Lennon Parham speak onstage at the 2015 Writers Guild Awards L.A. The first one was a pilot that we wrote for HBO that never saw the light of day, but we were writing it at the same time that we were both on other people’s sitcoms. The first three things I created myself were with Jessica St. But the writing of my own stuff kind of came out of a necessity. And I don’t know if I got it because of Amy Poehler or because I had begun to develop a relationship with a casting director-I really was just trying to get work as a comedic actor after having some success in commercials and obviously improv.
How has that contrast informed your career choices? You’ve had smaller roles in a massive amount of really beloved sitcoms and comedies like New Girl, Veep, Parks and Rec, and then you’ve had major roles on shows that you created.
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