Olivia Munn recollects a foul expertise on The Newsroom that nearly value her one other mission.

The Your Friends & Neighbors actress mentioned that she and one of many present's many administrators clashed over her character, Sloan Sabbith.
"There was one director who got here in a number of instances," Munn mentioned on Monday's episode of the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast. "And there was a storyline the place my character and Tom Sadoski's character are relationship and falling in love. He stored making an attempt to drive me to hold that storyline solely on my aspect."

She described the director encouraging her to cease specializing in what her character was doing within the scene to bathe Sadoski's character, Don Keefer, with consideration.
"He's like, 'Are you able to look out at him and smile?' And I'm like, 'Why? She's busy doing this.' Or, 'Are you able to cease and snuggle as much as him or flirt with him?' Or, 'Are you able to give him a kiss?’ And I'm like, 'That is in the course of working.'"

The Emmy-winning collection aired for 3 seasons between 2012 and 2014. Created and written by Aaron Sorkin, it depicted a working TV information room with an ensemble solid that additionally included Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Alison Capsule, Dev Patel, and Sam Waterston.

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None of this sat effectively with Munn on the time, after which the battle arose once more later.

"I used to be on the one-yard-line for the film, and my supervisor calls me and says, 'Hey, you're gonna get the position. However first, I assume there's one other director who they know, and he says that, on The Newsroom, you had been late on a regular basis and actually combative."

Munn insisted that wasn't true, and he or she suspected that what was being mentioned about her was due to their differing views on her character.

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"I lived seven minutes from there. I used to be by no means late," Munn mentioned. "And I used to be like, 'I do know who that is.' He simply was making an attempt to bash me. And I informed my reps, 'Please inform the administrators this.' After which I nonetheless acquired the position. However I’ll at all times do not forget that, simply due to our conflicts of how we approached a job, he needed to smash my probabilities of getting anything."

Munn's post-Newsroom work has included films Workplace Christmas Get together, Ocean's Eight, and X-Males: Apocalypse, to call a couple of.

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