Olivia Munn recently told Drew Barrymore that she has faced moments on set that tested her patience in a bad way. While discussing her career and the changes in personal life she experienced after her breast cancer diagnosis, Munn shared a story about an unnamed male co-star who stopped filming because Munn’s character was supposed to save the co-star. And he did not take it lightly.
Olivia Munn reveals her co-star didn’t want her to save his character
In the middle of her conversation on The Drew Barrymore Show, Olivia Munn brought up an experience from an action project where her character worked in a role like “CIA” or “a cop,” and the scene called for her to step in for a heroic moment.
She explained the bunker setup during a firefight sequence, recalling, “If you read the script, it was that he was guarding his side, I was guarding my side.” Munn added, “Then we switch sides, and then there’s a guy that was coming for him, was going to shoot him in the back, so I shoot him” — but her co-star stopped filming because he objected to the idea of Munn’s character saving him.
Munn revealed, “Then everything stops down, and there was no insecurity about being obnoxious. And everyone hearing this and being like, ‘She can’t save me. We’re not doing this,’” adding that “he was combative with the director.” The actor disclosed that the delay lasted almost “45 minutes.”
To move things along, Munn suggested, “Okay, how about instead of my character saving you, it just is that we switch because it’s time for us to switch, and so this is my guy to get,” and the co-star agreed. But Munn pointed out the irony, saying, “Nothing changed. It’s just what he thought. I was doing the exact same thing.”
In the end, Olivia Munn found a way forward and then proved, in her own words, that the scene never changed at all, even with her co-actor’s pride in the middle.
Originally reported by Ishika Mishra on Reality Tea
