Olivia Munn stated throughout a latest look on “The Drew Barrymore Show” that certainly one of her former male co-stars refused to be saved by her in a scene and stopped manufacturing for “45 minutes” to combat off the story beat.
“There have been a few times where I’ve been filming something, and my character was either like CIA, or a cop, or something, and there’s been scenes where my character has been the one to save the other character,” Munn stated. The scene in query featured Munn and her male co-star preventing facet by facet in a bunker.
“If you read the script, it was that he was guarding his side, I was guarding my side, then we switch sides and then there’s a guy that was coming for him [who] was gonna shoot him in the back, so I shoot him,” she recalled. “And then we’re about to shoot and, somehow, I guess he didn’t read the script, and in that moment, he realized, ‘Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. She can’t save me. No, no. She can’t save me.’”
Munn stated her co-star then halted manufacturing and have become “comative with the director” over the second. She added that he had “no insecurity about being obnoxious and everyone hearing this and being like, ‘She can’t save me! We’re not doing this.’”
“Finally, after like 45 minutes of just stopping down, I said, ‘OK, how about instead of my character saving you, it’s just that we switch because it’s time for us to switch and so this is my guy to get,’” she stated. “And he was like, ‘OK.’”
This isn’t the primary time Munn shared a nasty on-set expertise with a male co-worker. During an episode of Dax Shepherd’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, she stated a director she labored with on HBO’s “The Newsroom” tried to “ruin her chances” of getting a movie function by telling the studio she was “really combative” whereas filming.
“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 have been late on a regular basis and actually combative,’” Munn stated. “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 tell the directors this.’ And then I still got the role. But I will always remember that just because of our conflicts of how we approached a role, he wanted to ruin my chances of getting anything else.”
