Munn calls out Singer’s set absence
For years, filmmaker Bryan Singer’s career has been marred by allegations of sexual assault and unprofessional on-set behavior. In late 2017, he was fired from “Bohemian Rhapsody” for allegedly not coming to work and clashing with the film’s star, Rami Malek.
While Malek has remained mum on what happened, Olivia Munn, who worked with the director on 2016’s “X-Men: Apocalypse,” another 20th Century Fox title, called out Singer’s “bad behavior” in a recent interview.
According to Munn, Singer walked off set in Montreal to fly to Los Angeles for approximately 10 days to deal with a “thyroid issue,” leaving the production to scramble without a director.
“Instead of going to a doctor in Montreal, which is a very high-level, working city, he said he had to go to LA,” she told Variety. “And he said, ‘Continue, keep filming.’
“I never thought any of it was normal, but I didn’t realize other people also thought it wasn’t normal,” Munn said. “And the other people who thought it wasn’t normal would be people at high levels, people who make decisions on whether to hire this person. But this person is allowed to continue to go on . ... Even before the #MeToo stuff was exposed, there’s also just the bad behavior of people getting away with it. And no one in this world is so talented that it merits disrespecting other people and their time.”
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