Olivia Munn’s conflict with the Newsroom Director almost stopped her next role. How did the Director sabotage her career?

Drama Story Behind the Curtain

Olivia Munn recently shared a very tough experience on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast that happened during the time of HBO’s show “The Newsroom”.

This drama almost affected her future roles as well!

Disagreement over character

“This director repeatedly forced me to play my character differently,” Munn told about her role as Sloan Sabbith.

The problem started when it came to scenes with Tom Sadoski (who was her love interest Don Keefer).

The director repeatedly asked her to do all these things:

• “Smile when you look at him.”
• “Snuggle with him.”
• “Kiss him.”

Munn clearly refused and asked, “Why? My character is busy at work.” She remembered, “I used to say that he is busy at this time.”

Attempt to take revenge

The drama was not limited to shooting only. A few years later, Munn came to know that the same director was trying to spoil her new movie role as well.

“I was almost at the final stage for the movie,” Munn told.

Her manager called and gave the shocking news: some other director had claimed that she “always came late to the set of Newsroom and was very combative.”

Bringing out the truth

Munn immediately rejected these accusations. “I used to stay away from the set for only seven minutes.

I was never late,” she said emphatically. She immediately knew who was behind these rumors.

“Just because my way of approaching the role was different, he wanted to stop me from getting any other work,” Munn said.

Moving forward

Despite all this, Munn got that role. After The Newsroom (2012-2014), he has worked in several hit films such as “Office Christmas Party,” “Ocean’s Eight,” and “X-Men: Apocalypse.”

The Emmy-winning show Newsroom, which was created by Aaron Sorkin, also featured talented actors such as Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, and Sam Waterston, and the show ran for teen seasons.