![]() He works all the angles, has a vaguely ethnic last name, and just wants to make a living. I tell Johnson that, even though the first season of Minx gives us a little of his character’s backstory, I immediately thought he could be “Doug Renetti from Cicero,” the working-class Chicago neighborhood once known for its large Italian and Czech populations. He’s a throwback to a time when Bill Murray could show up on screen and charm Sigourney Weaver and that made total sense, or Rodney Dangerfield played a new-money goofball pissing off the stuck-up W.A.S.P.s at the country club. Johnson has carved out a niche for himself as one of the last of a dying breed of actors, the guy who loves playing the underdog, who is just out in the world doing his own thing. Parker in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse or the guy who in real-life is just another dad driving his kids around town in an SUV, reminiscing on his convertible days, but it’s actually the opposite. At first glance, it might not look like his latest role as 1970s porn publisher Doug Renetti on HBO Max’s Minx really fits with the lovable, drunk Nick Miller on New Girl, the voice of the washed version of Peter B. ![]() That progression feels a lot like something you could see a Jake Johnson character doing. Courtesy of Katrina Marcinowski via HBO Max.
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