Olivia Munn Talks Badly Behaved Co-Star

A while back, actress Rebecca Ferguson told a story about an “absolute idiot of a co-star” she had to deal with who screamed at her on set in front of the crew at the time. It was never revealed who she was talking about.

Now, another story of bad on-set behaviour has emerged via actress Olivia Munn during an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show.

Munn similarly didn’t name names but said the sequence they were filming featured Munn and her male co-star fighting side by side in a bunker. At one point, she sees the man is about to be shot and shoots the person about to kill the man.

Turns out, the actor playing the man didn’t like the idea of being saved by a woman:

“There have been a few times where I’ve been filming something, and my character was either like CIA, or a cop, or something, and there’s been scenes where my character has been the one to save the other character.

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’s a guy that was coming for him [who] was gonna shoot him in the back, so I shoot him.

And then we’re about to shoot and, somehow, I guess he didn’t read the script, and in that moment, he realised, ‘Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. She can’t save me. No, no. She can’t save me.’”

Munn explains that her co-star then halted the entire production and became combative with the director about the moment:

“[The man had] no insecurity about being obnoxious and everyone hearing this and being like, ‘She can’t save me! We’re not doing this.’ Finally, after like 45 minutes of just stopping down, I said, ‘OK, how about instead of my character saving you, it’s just that we switch because it’s time for us to switch and so this is my guy to get’. And he was like, ‘OK.’”

As with Ferguson’s story, people have now started scouring Munn’s back catalogue on both film and TV, looking for works that featured such a scene.