Olivia Munn claims ‘Newsroom’ director tried to ‘ruin’ her career

Olivia Munn remembers a bad experience on The editorial room that almost Another project costs him.

THE Your friends and neighbors The actress said that she and one of the many directors of the series clashed on her character, Sloan Sabbith.

“There was a director who came several times,” said Munn in the episode on Monday Chair expert with Dax Shepard podcast. “And there was a script where my character and the character of Tom Sadoski come out and fall in love. He kept trying to force me to wear this scenario only on my side.”

She described the director to encourage her to stop focusing on what her character was doing in the scene to shower the character of Sadoski, Don Keefer, with attention.

“He’s like:” Can you look at him and smile? “And I say to myself: ‘Why? This. Or: “Can you stop and snuggle up to him or flirt with him?” Or: “Can you give him a kiss?” And I say to myself: ‘It is in the middle of the work.’ “”

The winning series of an Emmy was broadcast for three seasons between 2012 and 2014. Created and written by Aaron Sorkin, he represented a television press room with an overall distribution which also included Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Alison Pill, Dev Patel and Sam Waterston.

None of this was sitting well with Munn at the time, then the conflict returned later.

“I was on the line of a yard for the film, and my manager calls me and said:” Hey, you’re going to have the role. But first, I guess there is another director they know, and he says that on The editorial roomYou were late all the time and really combative. “”

Munn insisted that it was not true, and she suspected that what was said about her was because of their different opinions on his character.

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“I lived seven minutes away. I was never late,” said Munn. “And I said to myself:” I know who it is. “He was just trying to hit me. And then I still had the role.

Munn’s post-Drafting Work has included films Office Christmas party,, Eight of the oceanAnd X-Men: ApocalypseTo name only a few.