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Olivia Munn: "Obnoxious" Male Co-Star Didn't Want Me to Save Him

Speaking with Drew Barrymore, Olivia Munn shared a story about how an "obnoxious" male co-star threw a fit because her character saved him.

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  • Olivia Munn reveals a male co-star refused to let her character save him on set.
  • Munn shared the story during an interview on The Drew Barrymore Show.
  • The actor halted production for 45 minutes over objections to the scene.
  • She tactfully resolved the issue without changing the original script’s intent.

Olivia Munn (Apple TV's Your Friends & Neighbors) recently shared a story about an experience she had with an "obnoxious" male co-star who made the production challenging after he protested a vital part of the script. During her interview on The Drew Barrymore Show this week, Munn opened up about how she has taken on roles in which she is in a position of power, such as being a cop or a CIA agent, and having to do scenes where her character has to go into action and save another character on screen. While she did not share the show or the actor, she did share how someone's ego brought production to a halt on one of those roles.

As Munn recounted to Drew Barrymore on the show, "I remember I was in this bunker once, and 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, was gonna shoot him in the back. So, I shoot him. 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 noted that the actor had "no insecurity about being obnoxious, and everyone hearing this and being like, 'She can't save me! We're not doing this!' And he was combative with the director,"

From there, the production shut down for 45 minutes until Munn tactfully offered a suggestion, saying to the unnamed actor, "'Okay, 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.' And he was like, 'Okay.' Now here's the interesting thing: nothing changed. It's just what he thought. I was doing the exact same thing."

It's an eye-opening reveal that to this day, there are male actors who have sensitive egos about how their characters are portrayed on TV and film, while also showing how Munn has been able to "armor up," as she put it, and find ways to navigate those issues when they arise. You can see the interview up top as the two also discuss her battle with aggressive breast cancer.

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