After getting the cold shoulder from her “Predator” cast and crew for publicly revealing that director Shane Black had hired a registered sex offender to act opposite her in a scene, actress Olivia Munn got a warm embrace from Ellen DeGeneres.
In an interview set to air Tuesday, the talk show host told Munn, “Good for you for because I’m on your side. I think people should always speak up when they see something happening. I think being quiet when there’s something that needs to be addressed is the wrong move.”
Munn, 38, recounted how an acquaintance had told her after the fact that Black had cast longtime friend Steven Wilder Striegel, a convicted sex offender, to play a character who hits on her in the movie.
“He was a 38-year-old man at the time and went after a 14-year-old female relative,” she told DeGeneres. (Striegel pleaded guilty in 2010 and served six months in prison, after which he was legally required to register as a sex offender.)
“When I found out, I did call Fox and I said, ‘We have to delete the scene.’ And they did, thankfully.”
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While Munn didn’t know her source terribly well, she said, “I figured, in that moment, they weren’t calling to give me the heads-up. It was going to be something that would get out there. So I wanted to give my co-stars a heads-up so they wouldn’t be blindsided like I was.”
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