{"id":22956,"date":"2026-04-09T15:23:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/olivia-munn-calls-out-male-co-star-who-refused-to-be-rescued-by-a-woman\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:23:44","slug":"olivia-munn-calls-out-male-co-star-who-refused-to-be-rescued-by-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/olivia-munn-calls-out-male-co-star-who-refused-to-be-rescued-by-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Munn Calls Out Male Co-Star Who Refused To Be Rescued By A Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Actress Olivia Munn is complaining that a male co-star objected to a scene in which her character saves his, leading to a dispute on set.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The 45-year-old ranted about the unnamed colleague during a recent appearance on \u201cThe Drew Barrymore Show.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cThere have been a few times where I\u2019ve been filming something, and my character was either like CIA, or a cop, or something, and there\u2019s been scenes where my character has been the one to save the other character,\u201d Munn told the talk show host, noting that the scene involved her and the co-star fighting side by side in a bunker.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"AWemBThqhgc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Olivia Munn Gets Candid About Aggressive Breast Cancer and How it Inspired Her to Let Down Her Guard\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AWemBThqhgc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cIf 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 who was gonna shoot him in the back, so I shoot him,\u201d she went on. \u201cAnd then we\u2019re about to shoot and, somehow, I guess he didn\u2019t read the script, and in that moment, he realized, \u2018Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. She can\u2019t save me. No, no. She can\u2019t save me.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Munn claimed that her colleague was \u201ccombative with the director\u201d and held up production for close to an hour. The actress lamented that he had \u201cno insecurity about being obnoxious and everyone hearing this and being like, \u2018She can\u2019t save me! We\u2019re not doing this.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cFinally, after like 45 minutes of just stopping down, I said, \u2018OK, how about instead of my character saving you, it\u2019s just that we switch because it\u2019s time for us to switch and so this is my guy to get,\u2019\u201d she told Barrymore. \u201cAnd he was like, \u2018OK.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Online commenters called out Munn for her complaints, criticizing what they view as a double standard in Hollywood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cSo it\u2019s totally cool for a woman to feel like she doesn\u2019t need to be saved by a man, but it\u2019s bad if a man thinks he doesn\u2019t need to be saved by a woman? Did I get that right?\u201d one popular reaction <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2042056151936987227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cAnd if Olivia Munn refused to be \u2018damseled\u2019 in a scene, you bet your bippy it would be a tale of female empowerment,\u201d another <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Scribe_Light\/status\/2042056424440918201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">agreed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Many commenters called Munn out for not naming names, leading them to question the story entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Calling out colleagues without naming them has become a bit of a pattern for the \u201cX-Men: Apocalypse\u201d star. Last summer, she <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/olivia-munn-male-director-ruin-career-1236445139\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complained about<\/a> a director she worked with on HBO\u2019s \u201cThe Newsroom\u201d who she claimed tried to sabotage her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cI was on the one-yard line for the movie, and my manager calls me and says, \u2018Hey, you\u2019re gonna get the role. But first, I guess there\u2019s another director who they know and he says that on \u201cThe Newsroom\u201d you were late all the time and really combative,\u2019\u201d Munn said at the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cI lived seven minutes from there. I was never late. I was like, \u2018I know who this is.\u2019 He just was trying to bash me. And I told my reps, \u2018Please tell the directors this.\u2019 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/olivia-munn-calls-out-male-co-star-who-refused-to-be-rescued-by-a-woman\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Olivia Munn is complaining that a male co-star objected to a scene in which her character saves his, leading to a dispute on set.\u00a0 The 45-year-old ranted about the unnamed colleague during a recent appearance on \u201cThe Drew Barrymore Show.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cThere have been a few times where I\u2019ve been filming something, and my character [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}