While Olivia Munn is used to playing strong women, she’s had to deal with plenty of strong male personalities behind the scenes.
The actress recently recalled an “obnoxious” male co-star who halted filming because he didn’t want her character saving his, also revealing how she maneuvered the tricky on-set situation.
“There have been a few times where I’ve been filming something, and my character was either like CIA, or a cop, or something,” she explained on The Drew Barrymore Show. “And there’s been scenes where my character has been the one to save the other character.”
Munn recounted of one scene, “I remember I was in this bunker once. And if you read the script, it was that he was guarding his side, I was guarding my side, then we switch sides and then there’s a guy that was coming for him, was gonna shoot him in the back. So, I shoot him. And then we’re about to shoot, and somehow—I guess he didn’t read the script—and in that moment, he realized, ‘Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. She can’t save me. No, no. She can’t save me.’
“And then everything stops down. There was no insecurity about being obnoxious and everyone hearing this and being like, ‘She can’t save me! We’re not doing this!’ And he was combative with the director,” added Munn.
The Predator star said that after 45 minutes of filming being stopped, she told him, “‘Okay, how about instead of my character saving you, it’s just is that we switch because it’s time for us to switch and so this is my guy to get.’ And he was like, ‘Okay.’
“Now here’s the interesting thing: nothing changed. It’s just what he thought. I was doing the exact same thing,” added Munn.
Munn can currently be seen playing Samantha Levitt on Season 2 of Your Friends & Neighbors, with new episodes available to stream Fridays on Apple TV+.
