Olivia Munn revealed she rejected a monetary settlement of “seven figures” from a film studio after she reported a “traumatic” scenario that occurred on the set of a movie she was engaged on.
Munn opened up in regards to the troubling expertise on the Feb. 18 episode of Monica Lewinsky’s podcast, “Reclaiming.”
“I had to file complaints with the studio, and there’s a lot of other little things that go along with it, but it got to this place where I was offered a lot of money,” Munn stated. “Seven figures to accept I guess their apology and them taking acknowledgement of it, but it came along with an NDA.”
Munn didn’t disclose which movie set the alleged incident occurred, however she made it clear that she stored quiet for a very long time, selecting to not converse publicly in regards to the occasion as a result of she “just wanted to move past it all.” She additionally avoided going into “specific things” when discussing the expertise with Lewinsky.
What finally stopped the actress from accepting the supply was a way of ethical unease.
“I just felt it was so wrong,” Munn defined. “And at this time specifically, this was in the beginning of the MeToo/TimesUp [movement].”
She added, “This was like the reckoning, the Harvey Weinstein reckoning that began it all. This was that time period, and this was when people were targeting anyone who signed an NDA saying, ‘Oh, you only did it for the money,’ so I was afraid that my voice and speaking up would reverse any kind of validity to my voice.”
Munn additionally feared that the studio would finally leak particulars in regards to the deal. After assembly with attorneys arguing both sides of the problem, she trusted her instincts and finally rejected the supply.
“We walked out of there,” Munn recalled. “And I remember feeling so proud when I walked out—so proud of myself.”
The actress, who shares her three-year-old son, Malcolm, and 5-month-old daughter, Méi, along with her husband, John Mulaney, additionally mirrored on the position her feelings performed through the ordeal.
“That comes into the feistiness of not thinking things through and being so upset and frustrated that this would be the offer to me,” she confessed. “I did not think about negotiating. I did not think about anything besides how disrespectful that was.”
Whereas Munn stands by her selection, she admitted that her anger influenced her decision-making course of.
“Look, was it the right thing to do and do the people in my life think that I did the right thing and are proud of me for that? Yes,” she stated. “It’s not that I wouldn’t have ended up with the same decision, it’s that I made that decision based on anger, and that is something I had to learn how to do rein in and use for my benefit.”
Munn has spoke about previous troubling on-set experiences earlier than. In 2018, she made headlines when she efficiently pushed twentieth Century Fox to take away a scene from the film “The Predator,” after discovering that actor Steven Wilder Striegel, who appeared within the scene, was a registered intercourse offender.
“I kind of feel like I’m the one going to jail,” she instructed Self-importance Truthful on the time, including, “I didn’t go to jail, I didn’t put this guy on our set. I had this scene deleted.”
Striegel served six months in jail after pleading responsible to 2 felonies.
