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Olivia Munn Disagreed With a Male Director, Says He Retaliated by Telling a Movie Studio She’s ‘Combative’ on Set: ‘He Wanted to Ruin My Chances of Getting’ Acting Roles


Olivia Munn says a director she worked with on "The Newsroom" tried to ruin her career by lying to movie studios that she was difficult to work with.

Olivia Munn revealed on an episode of Dax Shepherd’s “Armchair Expert” podcast (via The Daily Beast) that a director she worked with on HBO’s “The Newsroom” tried to “ruin” her career by preventing her from landing a movie role. A year after coming forward, Munn went public again to reveal that she reported to 20th Century Fox during the making of 2018’s “Predators” that director Shane Black hired his friend and registered sex offender Steven Wilder Striegel to appear in a small role opposite her. In an interview on the “Reclaiming” podcast earlier this year, Munn revealed she once turned down an offer worth millions of dollars from a studio to sign an NDA after she endured a “traumatic” incident on a movie set.

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