{"id":714985,"date":"2026-04-09T04:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/714985\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T04:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:59:16","slug":"olivia-munn-recalls-male-co-star-wouldnt-let-her-character-save-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/714985\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Munn Recalls Male Co-Star Wouldn’t Let Her Character Save His"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhile Olivia Munn<\/a> is used to playing strong women, she\u2019s had to deal with plenty of strong male personalities behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actress recently recalled an \u201cobnoxious\u201d male co-star who halted filming because he didn\u2019t want her character saving his, also revealing how she maneuvered the tricky on-set situation.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere have been a few times where I\u2019ve been filming something, and my character was either like CIA, or a cop, or something,\u201d she explained on The Drew Barrymore Show. \u201cAnd there\u2019s been scenes where my character has been the one to save the other character.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMunn recounted of one scene, \u201cI 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\u2019s a guy that was coming for him, was gonna shoot him in the back. So, I shoot him. And then we\u2019re about to shoot, and somehow\u2014I guess he didn\u2019t read the script\u2014and in that moment, he realized, \u2018Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. She can\u2019t save me. No, no. She can\u2019t save me.\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd then everything stops down. There was no insecurity about being obnoxious and everyone hearing this and being like, \u2018She can\u2019t save me! We\u2019re not doing this!\u2019 And he was combative with the director,\u201d added Munn.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Predator star said that after 45 minutes of filming being stopped, she told him, \u201c\u2018Okay, how about instead of my character saving you, it\u2019s just is that we switch because it\u2019s time for us to switch and so this is my guy to get.\u2019 And he was like, \u2018Okay.\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNow here\u2019s the interesting thing: nothing changed. It\u2019s just what he thought. I was doing the exact same thing,\u201d added Munn.<\/p>\n

\n\tMunn can currently be seen playing Samantha Levitt on Season 2 of Your Friends & Neighbors, with new episodes available to stream Fridays on Apple TV+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Olivia Munn is used to playing strong women, she\u2019s had to deal with plenty of strong male…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":714986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,23803,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-714985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-olivia-munn","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116372987446197156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}