Olivia Munn Claims Male Director Tried To Sabotage Her Career

Olivia MunnOlivia Munn is claiming a director on the series The Newsroom tried to derail her career. In a new episode of the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepardpodcast, the actor alleged that things got tense between her and one of the show’s male directors after the pair were at odds over her character, Sloan Sabbith, on the drama show. “There was one director who came in multiple times,” Olivia said during the interview. “And there was a storyline where my character and Tom Sadoski’s character are dating and falling in love. He kept trying to force me to carry that storyline only on my side.”Olivia alleged that she clashed with the unnamed director after they both had different ideas of how her character should interact with Tom’s.“He’s like, ‘Can you, like, look out at him and smile?’ And I’m like, ‘Why? She’s busy doing this’,” she recalled.” Or, ‘Can you, like, 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’.” The X-Men star said the director later accused her of being “forceful” in her opinions about the character, which resulted in one of the show’s producers having a talk with her. Olivia told the host that her dispute with the director eventually resurfaced when she was trying out for another role.“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 were late all the time and really combative’,” Olivia explained. HBO – the US broadcaster behind The Newsroom – didn’t immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment. Olivia revealed that she ended up getting the role anyway, and denied the hearsay. “I lived seven minutes from there. I was never late. And I was like, ‘I know who this is’. He just was trying to bash me,” she claimed. “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.”Watch Olivia Munn’s appearance on the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast below. Her comments on the director begin at the 51:50 mark below.MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS:Katy Perry And Orlando Bloom Break Silence Amid Split RumoursChristopher Nolan's The Odyssey Trailer Is Already Sparking Debate For This 1 ReasonRachel Zegler Shares Pedro Pascal’s Dramatic Reaction To Seeing Her Perform In Evita

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