Olivia Munn is opening up about what she endured by a director on the collection The Newsroom.
Munn not too long ago shared on the Armchair Expert podcast that whereas engaged on the previous HBO present, created by Aaron Sorkin, one of many administrators tried to “smash” her profession by telling others within the trade she was onerous to work with after they disagreed on her character, Sloan Sabbith.
“There was a storyline the place my character and Tom Sadoski’s character are relationship and falling in love,” the Your Pals & Neighbors actress stated. “[The director] saved attempting to drive me to hold that storyline solely on my aspect. He’s like, ‘Are you able to look out at him and smile?’ And I’m like, ‘Why, she’s busy doing this?’ Or, ‘Are you able to cease and snuggle as much as him or flirt with him?’ Or, ‘Are you able to give him a kiss?’ And I’m like, ‘That is in the course of working.’”
Munn wouldn’t title who it was. She later came upon the director spoke negatively about their expertise working collectively to different filmmakers that might probably rent her.
“I used to be on the one-yard line for the film, and my supervisor calls me and says, ‘Hey, you’re gonna get the position. However first, I assume there’s one other director who they know, and he says that on The Newsroom, you have been late on a regular basis and actually combative.’”
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to HBO for remark.
“I lived seven minutes from there. I used to be by no means late. I used to be like, ‘I do know who that is.’ He simply was attempting to bash me. And I informed my reps, ‘Please inform the administrators this,’” she recalled. “I nonetheless obtained the position. However I’ll all the time keep in mind that simply due to our conflicts of how we approached a task, he needed to smash my possibilities of getting the rest.”