Olivia Munn said during a recent appearance “the drew barrymore showOne of her former male co-stars refused to be rescued by her in a scene and shut down production for “45 minutes” to fight the rhythm of the story.
Munn said, “There have been times when I was filming something, and my character was either like a CIA, or a cop, or something, and there were scenes where my character was going to save another character.” The scene in question featured Munn and her male co-star fighting side by side in a bunker.
“If you read the script, it’s like he was protecting his side, I was protecting my side, then we switch sides and then there’s a guy who was coming for him (who) was going to shoot him from behind, so I shot him,” she recalled. “And then we were about to shoot and, somehow, I think she didn’t read the script, and in that moment, she realized, ‘Wait, wait, wait. Wait. She can’t save me. No, no. She can’t save me.'”
Munn said that her co-star then stopped production and “got comical with the director” at that moment. She added that she had “no insecurities about being obnoxious and everyone hearing it and being like, ‘She can’t save me! We’re not doing that.'”
“Finally, after waiting for about 45 minutes, I said, ‘Okay, what about instead of my character saving you, it’s just that we switch because it’s time for us to switch and so it’s my guy,'” she said. “And he was like, ‘Okay.'”
This isn’t the first time Munn has shared a bad experience on set with a male co-worker. During an episode of Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, she said that a director she worked with on HBO’s “The Newsroom” tried to “ruin her chances” of getting a role in the film by telling the studio that she was “really belligerent” during filming.
“I was on the one-yard-line for the movie and my manager called me up and said, ‘Hey, you’re gonna get the role. But first, I think there’s another director that they know and he says that on “The Newsroom” you were late all the time and were really belligerent,'” Munn said. “I lived seven minutes away from there. I was never late. I said, ‘I know who it is.’ He was just trying to beat me. And I said to my representatives, ‘Please tell this to the directors.’ And then I still got the role. But I will always remember that because of our differences over a role, he wanted to ruin my chances of getting something else.”
