Olivia Munn is opening up a few traumatic expertise she confronted on the set of a film.
In an episode of Monica Lewinsky’s podcast, “Reclaiming,” on Tuesday, the host and her visitor mentioned their struggles with anxiousness through the years.
“I was anxious, but I didn’t understand it was anxiousness,” Munn mentioned. The pair agreed that “anxiety” wasn’t a phrase they encountered rising up, with Munn’s mom insisting on describing Munn’s worries as her being “stubborn.” Over time, Munn realized that an “underlying part” of who she is her sturdy response to “fairness and unfairness.”
That prompted her to trace at a “traumatic” expertise she had whereas filming.
“There [were] other things that happened on this movie set personally that were really not OK,” Munn mentioned. “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.”
The “X-Men: Apocalypse” actor disclosed that she was supplied “seven figures” to simply accept an apology.
“It came along with an NDA,” she mentioned, including that she would have “never talked about it,” as a result of she “wanted to move past it all.” Nonetheless, Munn declined to signal the non-disclosure settlement, feeling the provide was deeply incorrect.
“This was like the reckoning — the Harvey Weinstein reckoning that began it all,” she continued. “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 just reverse any kind of validity to my voice.”
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Munn expressed fears of retaliation if she signed the NDA and was “concerned” that it will hinder her means to talk out in opposition to future injustices. So throughout a gathering with the studio, she turned to her lawyer and instructed him she was not accepting the provide — a transfer she attributed on Tuesday to her feistiness from childhood.
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It was “not a lot of money to me to lose my voice,” Munn mentioned of declining the provide. She added that she felt “proud of herself” for her determination.
Munn defined that she made the choice out of “anger,” however as she’s gotten older, she has realized to take a step again and thoroughly take into account all choices.
“It’s not that I wouldn’t have ended up with the same decision,” she mentioned, “it’s that I made that decision based on anger, and that is something that I had to learn how to rein in and use for my benefit.”
