Olivia Munn revealed on an episode of Dax Shepherd’s “Armchair Professional” podcast (by way of The Day by day Beast) {that a} director she labored with on HBO’s “The Newsroom” tried to “damage” her profession by stopping her from touchdown a film position. The director, who remained unnamed, instructed the studio that Munn was “actually combative” on set after the 2 shared disagreements on the set of the Aaron Sorkin-created tv collection.

“There was a storyline the place my character and Tom Sadoski’s character are courting and falling in love,” Munn defined. “[The director] stored making an attempt to pressure 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 later heard from somebody on her crew that this director was telling folks at a movie studio that she was troublesome to work with.

“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,’” Munn mentioned. “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 making an attempt to bash me. And I instructed my reps, ‘Please inform the administrators this.’ After which I nonetheless obtained the position. However I’ll all the time do not forget that simply due to our conflicts of how we approached a job, he wished to damage my probabilities of getting the rest.”

Munn has been outspoken all through her profession concerning the various injustices she has confronted on movie and tv units. She accused director Brett Ratner of sexual harassment in 2017, alleging to The Los Angeles Instances that he masturbated in entrance of her in his trailer when she visited the set of his film “After the Sundown” in 2004. A yr after coming ahead, Munn went public once more to disclose that she reported to twentieth Century Fox in the course of the making of 2018’s “Predators” that director Shane Black employed his pal and registered intercourse offender Steven Wilder Striegel to seem in a small position reverse her. Black in the end apologized.

In an interview on the “Reclaiming” podcast earlier this yr, Munn revealed she as soon as turned down a suggestion value hundreds of thousands of {dollars} from a studio to signal an NDA after she endured a “traumatic” incident on a film set. 

Watch Munn’s full interview on the “Armchair Professional” podcast within the video under.