Olivia Munn Claims Male Director Tried To Sabotage Her Career

Olivia Munn is claiming a director on the series “The Newsroom” tried to derail her career.

In a new episode of the “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard” podcast, the actor alleged that things got tense between her and one of the show’s male directors after the pair were at odds over her character, Sloan Sabbith, on the drama show.

“There was one director who came in multiple times,” Munn said during Monday’s episode. “And there was a storyline where my character and Tom Sadoski’s character [Don Keefer] are dating and falling in love. He kept trying to force me to carry that storyline only on my side.”

The former TV host alleged that she clashed with the unnamed director after they both had different ideas of how her character should interact with Sadoski’s character.

“He’s like, ‘Can you, like, look out at him and smile?’ And I’m like, ‘Why? She’s busy doing this.’ Or, ‘Can you, like, stop and snuggle up to him or flirt with him?’ Or, ‘Can you give him a kiss?’ And I’m like, ‘This is in the middle of working,’” Munn recalled.

The “X-Men” star said the director later accused her of being “forceful” in her opinions about the character, which resulted in one of the show’s producers having a talk with her.

Munn told Shepard that her dispute with the director eventually resurfaced when she was trying out for another role.

“I was on the one-yard line for the movie … and my manager calls me and says, ‘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 explained.

HBO didn’t immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.

Munn revealed that she ended up getting the role and denied the hearsay.

“I lived seven minutes from there. I was never late. And I was like, ‘I know who this is.’ He just was trying to bash me. And I told my reps, ‘Please tell the directors this,’” she recalled. “And then I still got the role. But I will always remember that just because of our conflicts of how we approached a role, he wanted to ruin my chances of getting anything else.”

Watch Munn’s appearance on the “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard” podcast below.

Her comments on the director begin at the 51:50 mark below.

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