Olivia Munn Says ‘Obnoxious’ Male Co-Star Wouldn’t Let Her ‘Save’ Him On-Screen
Olivia Munn is opening up about her expertise with a male actor who felt uncomfortable with a movie’s seemingly feminist slant.
Appearing on “The Drew Barrymore Show” This week, the “X-Men: Apocalypse” actor mentioned she’d pledged way back to deal with movie and TV tasks that includes feminine characters who weren’t reliant on their male counterparts.
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One such challenge, Munn mentioned, required her to seem alongside a male co-star who objected to a scene during which his character’s life can be spared, because of Munn’s character’s assist.
“If you read the script, it was that he was guarding his side, I was guarding my side, then we switched sides and then there’s a guy that was coming for him — he was gonna shoot him in the back — so I shoot him,” she recalled. “And then we’re about to shoot, and somehow, I guess he didn’t read the script, and in that moment, he realized, ‘Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. She can’t save me. No, no. She can’t save me.'”
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Although Munn didn’t determine the co-star by title, she described his subsequent on-set conduct as “obnoxious,” noting that he rapidly grew “combative with the director.” After the actor delayed the shoot for about 45 minutes, Munn determined to reframe the specifics of the scene to satisfy his co-star’s approval.
“I said, ‘OK, how about instead of my character saving you, it’s just that we switch because it’s time for us to switch and so this is my guy to get,’” she mentioned. “And he was like, ‘OK.’”
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She went on to notice: “Now here’s the interesting thing: Nothing changed. It’s just what he thought. I was doing the exact same thing.”
Munn, who’s married to actor-comedian John Mulaneyhas been outspoken about having endured less-than-optimal remedy on Hollywood units for a while.
Appearing on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast final 12 months, she recalled an unnamed director on HBO’s “The Newsroom” who smeared her work ethics after she disagreed along with his solutions of how her character, Sloan Sabbith, would behave alongside Don Keefer (performed by Thomas Sadoski) in a scene.
Olivia Munn can at present be seen on the Apple TV+ collection “Your Friends & Neighbors,” co-starring Jon Hamm. TheStewartofNY by way of Getty Images
“I was on the one-yard-line for the movie and my manager calls me and says, ‘Hey, you’re gonna get the role. But first, I guess there’s another director who they know and he says that on ‘The Newsroom’ you were late all the time and really combative,'” she mentioned on the time. “I was like, ‘I know who this is.’”
These days, Munn might be seen on the Apple TV+ crime drama collection “Your Friends & Neighbors,” which additionally stars Jon Hamm. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter in an interview Published final week, she mentioned she hoped to set an instance for different feminine actors by standing up for herself within the movie trade.
“I can’t change the world and I cannot change how women have been portrayed and received for however long we’ve been on earth,” she instructed the outlet. “So I’ve realized that I’m going to handle [these situations] in a way that is going to be the best outcome for me.”
