Olivia Munn — queen of calling fellow celebs out on their nonsense — revealed on The Drew Barrymore Show that a former male co-star once refused to let his character be saved by hers, reportedly halting production for 45 minutes while pushing back against the scene.
“There have been a few times where I’ve been filming something, and my character was either like CIA, or a cop, or something, and there’s been scenes where my character has been the one to save the other character,” Munn said.
The moment played out in a bunker, where Munn and her male co-star were meant to be fighting side by side.
“If you read the script, it was that he was guarding his side, I was guarding my side, then we switch sides and then there’s a guy that was coming for him [who] was gonna shoot him in the back, so I shoot him,” she recounted on the show.
“And then we’re about to shoot and, somehow, I guess he didn’t read the script, and in that moment, he realised, ‘Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. She can’t save me. No, no. She can’t save me’.”
Munn claims her co-star then stopped production and became “combative with the director” over the scene. She added that he had “no insecurity about being obnoxious and everyone hearing this and being like, ‘She can’t save me! We’re not doing this'”.
“Finally, after like 45 minutes of just stopping down, 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 said. “And he was like, ‘OK’.”
This isn’t the first time Munn has opened up about a negative on-set experience with a male colleague. Speaking on Armchair Expert podcast, hosted by Dax Shepard, she claimed a director on The Newsroom attempted to “ruin her chances” at landing a film role by telling a studio she was “really combative” during filming.
“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’,” Munn said.
“I lived seven minutes from there. I was never late. I was like, ‘I know who this is’. He just was trying to bash me. And I told my reps, ‘Please tell the directors this’. And then I still got the role. But I will always remember that just because of our conflicts of how we approached a role, he wanted to ruin my chances of getting anything else.”
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