Olivia Munn joined Monica Lewinsky‘s Reclaiming podcast and opened up about turning down a hefty sum of cash after reporting a “traumatic” expertise on a film set.
Within the episode aired Wednesday, Munn mentioned the incident passed off across the starting of the #MeToo period, following the wave of sexual abuse accusations towards disgraced movie govt Harvey Weinstein. Munn didn’t title the studio, movie, people concerned, or further particulars concerning the incident.
“There have been issues that occurred on this film set, personally to me, that had been actually not OK and it was so traumatic that I needed to file complaints with the studio,” Munn mentioned. “It received to this place the place I used to be provided some huge cash, a lot of cash — seven figures — to just accept their apology. But it surely got here together with an NDA.”
“I simply felt it was so mistaken,” the actress continued. “And right now particularly, this was at first of #MeToo and Instances Up. … This was just like the reckoning, the Harvey Weinstein reckoning that started all of it. This was that point interval, and this was when folks had been focusing on anybody who signed an NDA saying, ‘Oh, you solely did it for the cash,’ so I used to be afraid that [signing the NDA] would reverse any type of validity to my voice.”
Munn mentioned she was afraid the studio behind the movie “would leak” the NDA in “an effort to decrease my voice.” She recalled assembly with the studio and her legal professionals, who suggested her to assume the provide over, and telling her authorized group that she was not going to signal the NDA.
“I bear in mind feeling so proud once I walked out — so happy with myself,” Munn mentioned. “I didn’t take into consideration negotiating. I didn’t take into consideration something in addition to how disrespectful that was.” She added, laughing, “Shortly after that, California made NDAs unlawful.”
Munn has taken a stand towards sexual misconduct all through her profession. She accused director Brett Ratner of sexual harassment, recalling to the Los Angeles Times in 2017, how he allegedly masturbated in entrance of her in his trailer when she was visiting the set of his movie After the Sundown in 2004.
The actress beforehand recounted the incident in her 2010 guide, Suck It, Marvel Girl! The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek, however not noted names and particulars on the time. Ratner voluntarily recognized himself because the unnamed director during a 2011 appearance on Assault of the Present, a TV program Munn beforehand co-hosted, however denied masturbating in entrance of her.
In 2018, Munn revealed that through the making of that 12 months’s Predators, she reported to twentieth Century Fox that director Shane Black employed his good friend and registered intercourse offender Steven Wilder Striegel to seem in a brief scene through which his character hits on her. Fox eliminated Striegel’s scenes after Munn’s report and Black later issued an apology.
