Olivia Munn has made a shocking revelation about the director of political drama television series, Newsroom.
During an appearance for an interview on Armchair Expert podcast, the actor candidly shared that director, whom she did not name, tried to ruin her career after a disagreement on set.
Recalling the incident, The Predator actress began, “There was a storyline where my character and Tom Sadoski’s character are dating and falling in love.
“[The director] kept trying to force me to carry that storyline only on my side. He’s like, ‘Can you look out at him and smile?’
“And I’m like, ‘Why she’s busy doing this?’ Or, ‘Can you stop and snuggle up to him or flirt with him?’ Or, ‘Can you give him a kiss?’ And I’m like, ‘This is in the middle of working,’” she added.
Revealing that she heard from another movie studio that the director told others that she was difficult to work with. “I was on the one-yard-line for the movie and my manager calls me and says, ‘Hey, you’re gonna get the role,'” she said.
“‘But first, I guess there’s another director who they know and he says that on The Newsroom you were late all the time and really combative’. 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.”
Before concluding, Olivia Munn shared, “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.”
The Hollywood actress starred in the political drama series alongside Jeff Daniels, Alison Pill, Emily Mortimer, and Thomas Sadoski.
