Olivia Munn has alleged a director tried to “ruin her chances” of working after a disagreement on set.
Olivia Munn has claimed a director tried to stop her landing future roles after a disagreement
The 44-year-old actress has recalled working on HBO series The Newsroom when an incident with unnamed director led to them trying to prevent her from landing future roles.
Appearing on Dax Shepherd’s Armchair Expert podcast, she said: “There was a storyline where my character and Tom Sadoski’s character are dating and falling in love.
“[The director] kept trying to force me to carry that storyline only on my side. He’s like, ‘Can you look out at him and smile?’
“And I’m like, ‘Why she’s busy doing this?’ Or, ‘Can you stop and snuggle up to him or flirt with him?’ Or, ‘Can you give him a kiss?’ And I’m like, ‘This is in the middle of working.’ ”
Olivia claimed she later found out that the director told a separate movie studio that she’d been difficult and unprofessional on set.
She added: “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’.
“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…
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