Olivia Munn refused to sign NDA, turned down seven figures after ‘traumatic’ set experience

Olivia Munn refuses to be silenced.
The “Newsroom” star, 44, alleged on the “Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky” podcast that she declined to sign a non-disclosure agreement after a bad experience working on a movie.
“I was offered a lot of money, seven figures, to accept their apology and them taking acknowledgement of it, but it came along with an NDA,” she said. “Not that I would ever have talked about it, truly, because I wanted to move past it all, and that’s why I don’t want to talk about the specific things that happened in that situation. But I said, ‘I’m not signing an NDA.'”
Without getting into details, Munn said what happened to her on the set was “really not OK” and was “so traumatic that I had to file complaints with the studio.” She did not name the movie.
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But the “X-Men: Apocalypse” actress said this happened around the time that the #MeToo movement was getting started, and she felt it would be “so wrong” to sign the NDA.
“This is when people were targeting anyone who signed an NDA, saying, ‘Oh, you only did it for the money,'” Munn said, adding, “I was concerned that the studio, in an effort to diminish my voice, would leak out that I had signed an NDA for money.”
Munn said she did not think about negotiating the offer, as she was only focused on “how disrespectful that was.” She remembered being in a meeting where she turned down the seven figures and said, “It is not a lot of money to me to lose my voice.” Munn felt “so proud of myself” after exiting the meeting, although she now has some regrets about how she arrived at this decision.
“Was it the right thing to do, and do the people in my life think I did the right thing and are proud of me for that? Yes,” she said. “But, 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 that I had to learn how to rein in and use for my benefit.”
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In 2018, Munn made headlines after alerting 20th Century Fox to the fact that an actor who appeared with her in the movie “The Predator” was a registered sex offender. Fox cut the scene from the film and said it was not aware of the actor’s background.
But on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” Munn alleged she was “chastised” by the studio after telling her co-stars about the situation. She also said she did not feel supported by her fellow actors in the film.
“My cast members, nobody said anything to me about it,” Munn said. “Nobody talked to me. Nobody reached out. At first, I thought maybe it’s because they just don’t know what to say, they want to stay out of the way. But privately, I did feel iced out.”
She continued, “I think that’s really important for people to understand: When you see something, you have to say something. However, it’s not going to be easy, and there will be people that get mad at you for not playing the game.”
Munn was previously one of six women who accused Brett Ratner of sexual misconduct in a 2017 Los Angeles Times article. She said the “Rush Hour” director masturbated in front of her in his trailer when she visited the set of his 2004 movie “After the Sunset.”
Ratner denied the allegations. He is set to release a documentary about first lady Melania Trump for Amazon MGM Studios, which will be his first film since the sexual misconduct scandal.