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Olivia Munn revealed how a director on the previous HBO present The Newsroom tried to “wreck” her profession and possibilities to land future roles.On a June 30 episode of Armchair Knowledgeable with Dax Shepard, the Your Mates and Neighbors actor stated one of many administrators from the HBO collection tried to sabotage her profession by claiming she was difficult to work with.Olivia starred as economist Sloan Sabbith throughout all three seasons of Aaron Sorkin’s 2012 political drama.She defined that when Season 2 began, she observed that sure administrators targeted on her. “What are you fucking with me for?” she recalled, earlier than singling out one director she seemingly butted heads with.“There was a storyline the place my character and Tom Sadoski’s character are courting and falling in love,” Olivia stated. “ saved making an attempt to power me to hold that storyline solely on my aspect. He is like, ‘Are you able to look out at him and smile?’ And I am 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 am like, ‘That is in the midst of working.'”Tom Sadoski portrayed Don Keefer, a former government producer of the collection’ important Information Evening present, who has a growing relationship with Olivia’s character on the present.Within the podcast, Olivia did not identify the director, however she alleged that they have been talking negatively about her to different business professionals in a approach that would injury her repute as an actor.Olivia continued, “I used to be on the one-yard line for the film, and my supervisor calls me and says, ‘Hey, you are gonna get the position. However first, I assume there’s one other director who they know, and he says that on The Newsroom, you have been late on a regular basis and actually combative.'”Olivia was adamant that the claims have been unfaithful, explaining that she was by no means late and that the battle was embellished. “I lived seven minutes from . I used to be by no means late. I used to be like, ‘I do know who that is.’ He simply was making an attempt to bash me. And I instructed my reps, ‘Please inform the administrators this,'” she stated. “I nonetheless bought 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 wreck my possibilities of getting anything.”“Clearly, whenever you begin on this enterprise, there may be the hope of constructing your mark and attending to a sure place,” Olivia stated. “However this sort of dynamic that I skilled for thus lengthy has actually modified. The way in which I take into consideration my profession and what I would like — I really need to do nice work that I am proud of, and I need to stay a straightforward, glad life.”Watch Olivia’s interview on the podcast.
