Olivia Munn revealed how a director on the previous HBO present The Newsroom tried to “break” her profession and possibilities to land future roles.
On a June 30 episode of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, the Your Mates and Neighbors actor mentioned one of many administrators from the HBO collection tried to sabotage her profession by claiming she was difficult to work with.
Olivia starred as economist Sloan Sabbith throughout all three seasons of Aaron Sorkin’s 2012 political drama.
She defined that when Season 2 began, she observed that sure administrators targeted on her. “What are you fucking with me for?” she recalled, earlier than singling out one director she seemingly butted heads with.
“There was a storyline the place my character and Tom Sadoski’s character are relationship and falling in love,” Olivia mentioned. “[The director] stored attempting to drive me to hold that storyline solely on my facet. He is like, ‘Are you able to look out at him and smile?’ And I am 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 am like, ‘That is in the midst of working.'”
Tom Sadoski portrayed Don Keefer, a former government producer of the collection’ major Information Night time present, who has a growing relationship with Olivia’s character on the present.
Within the podcast, Olivia did not identify the director, however she alleged that they had been talking negatively about her to different business professionals in a means that might injury her status as an actor.
Olivia continued, “I used to be on the one-yard line for the film, and my supervisor calls me and says, ‘Hey, you are gonna get the function. However first, I suppose there’s one other director who they know, and he says that on The Newsroom, you had been late on a regular basis and actually combative.'”
Olivia was adamant that the claims had been unfaithful, explaining that she was by no means late and that the battle was embellished. “I lived seven minutes from [Sunset Grower Studios]. I used to be by no means late. I used to be like, ‘I do know who that is.’ He simply was attempting to bash me. And I informed my reps, ‘Please inform the administrators this,'” she mentioned. “I nonetheless received the function. However I’ll all the time do not forget that simply due to our conflicts of how we approached a task, he needed to break my probabilities of getting the rest.”
“Clearly, while you begin on this enterprise, there may be the hope of creating your mark and attending to a sure place,” Olivia mentioned. “However this sort of dynamic that I skilled for therefore lengthy has actually modified. The way in which I take into consideration my profession and what I need — I actually wish to do nice work that I am proud of, and I wish to reside a simple, blissful life.”
Watch Olivia’s interview on the podcast.
