Olivia Munn has said a male co-star once stopped filming for 45 minutes after learning that her character was meant to “save” him.
The Predator star, 45, explained that she was filming an action scene in a bunker alongside the unnamed actor where her character has to rescue him during a shoot-out.
When her co-star realised this, he halted production and became “combative” with the director, insisting that his character wouldn’t be helped by a woman.
Munn made her claims on The Drew Barrymore Show, but did not reveal the name of the actor in question.
Recounting the experience, the Your Friends & Neighbors star said: “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.”
The scene featured Munn and her male co-star fighting side by side in a bunker.
“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,” she recalled.
“And then we’re about to shoot and, somehow, I guess he didn’t read the script, and in that moment, he realized, ‘Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. She can’t save me. No, no. She can’t save me.’”
Munn - who shares two children with John Mulaney - said her co-star then stopped filming and became “combative with the director” over the scene.
She added that he had “no insecurity about being obnoxious and everyone hearing this and being like, ‘She can’t save me! We’re not doing this.’”
Munn went on: “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,’” she said.
“And he was like, ‘OK.’”
