Olivia Munn has spoken out about her experiences filming The Newsroom, alleging repeated inventive clashes with a director on the HBO collection led to skilled conflicts on set — and makes an attempt to derail her profession afterwards.
Olivia Munn has spoken out about her experiences filming The Newsroom, alleging repeated inventive clashes with a director on the HBO collection led to skilled conflicts on set — and makes an attempt to derail her profession afterwards
The 44-year-old actress mentioned the scenario throughout an episode of the Armchair Knowledgeable podcast, in dialog with host Dax Shepard.
Oilvia, who starred as monetary reporter Sloan Sabbith within the Aaron Sorkin–created collection from 2012 to 2014, stated tensions escalated in the course of the second and third seasons, significantly as her character grew to become romantically concerned with Don Keefer, performed by Thomas Sadoski, 48.
The star claimed the director repeatedly pressured her to play the romantic arc from Sloan’s perspective solely.
“The director stored making an attempt to drive me to hold that storyline solely on my aspect,” she stated – including: “I’m in the course of working and I’ve obtained this new Bloomberg machine, and I’m so excited, and he’s like, ‘Are you able to look out at him and smile?’
“And I’m 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?’”
A very contentious second occurred, Olivia stated, when her character found Don had dedicated insider buying and selling utilizing confidential data she had shared.
“I used to be like, ‘Are you f****** kidding me? That is insane,’” she recalled.
In accordance with Oilvia, the director disagreed along with her interpretation and insisted Sloan ought to discover the scenario “type of humorous”.
The battle culminated in a standoff throughout filming.
“There was one scene, and I used to be like, ‘No. I’m not doing (that),’” Olivia stated – including: “And he stated, ‘Look, it’s my job as a director to see all of the completely different colors of the rainbow and you’re looking at just one color, and I don’t assume you realise the way you’re coming off.’
“And I stated, ‘How am I coming off?’ And he stated, ‘Actually forceful and powerful.’
“And I stated, ‘Nice. That’s what I wished.’ And I walked away.”
Regardless of intervention from a producer in regards to the seen pressure on set, Olivia stated she stood her floor.
“I simply fought again a lot,” she stated. “I’m nonetheless pleased about that.”
Olivia additionally alleged the identical director later tried to break her skilled repute.
She stated: “I used to be on the one-yard line for a film position after I obtained a name from my supervisor, who stated, ‘Hey, you’re gonna get the position.
“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 denied the claims, saying she lived “seven minutes” from set and “was by no means late”.
“He simply was making an attempt to bash me,” she stated, including: “And I advised my reps, ‘Please inform the administrators this.’ After which I nonetheless obtained the position.”
Olivia additionally stated the incident has remained along with her, including:. “Simply due to our conflicts of how we approached a job, he wished to damage my possibilities of getting the rest.”
