A director Olivia Munn worked with allegedly tried to kill her acting career in retaliation for their on-set feud.
The actress, 45, revealed on the “Armchair Expert” podcast earlier this week that her manager informed her that an unnamed filmmaker had been bad-mouthing her to casting directors.
She said her rep told her, “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.”
Munn denied the director’s claims about her tardiness and chalked up the rest to him just “trying to bash” her because they had disagreements about creative differences on set.
She said she worked with the filmmaker on Seasons 2 and 3 of the popular HBO series, and they particularly butted heads on her romance storyline with Thomas Sadoski’s character, Don Keefer.
“He kept trying to force me to carry that storyline — only on my side,” Munn claimed.
She also alleged that the director would ask her to flirtatiously “smile” or “kiss” her love interest when her character, Sloan Sabbith, was supposed to be in the middle of working.
“I’ve got this new Bloomberg machine, and I’m so excited, and he’s like, ‘Can you look out at him and smile?’” the “X-Men: Apocalypse” star claimed.
Munn shared that one “insane” request was when Sabbith found out Keefer had been doing “insider trading” and the director told her, “I don’t think that you’re that angry at him. It’s kind of funny.”
“I just fought back so much,” she admitted, noting that the final straw for her was one scene when she simply had to tell the director, “No, I’m not doing [that].”
He allegedly responded, “Look, it’s my job as a director to see all the different colors of the rainbow and you are looking at only one color, and I don’t think you realize how you’re coming off.”
When she asked him to clarify how she was being perceived — to which he allegedly replied, “Really forceful and strong” — the “Predator” star said she told him, “Great, that’s what I wanted,” and walked away.”
Once their issues became known to those involved in her future auditions, Munn said she had her reps explain the situation and she said she still got the role.
“But I will always remember that,” the “Your Friends & Neighbors” star reflected, “just because of our conflicts of how we approached a role, he wanted to ruin my chances of getting anything else.”
According to IMDb, there were 11 male directors that worked on “The Newsroom” from 2012 to 2014.
Munn’s rep did not immediately return Page Six’s request for further comments on the matter.
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