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Fox Lectured Olivia Munn For Reporting Sex Offender

We learned last week that Fox had ordered a scene to be deleted from Shane Black’s upcoming movie The Predator. Having starred in the original film, Black’s reboot of a classic has garnered mixed to positive reviews, but a controversy now surrounds it after it was revealed that the scene cut was because it had a registered sex offender in it. A friend of Black’s, Steven Wilder Striegel; is on the registry and after star Olivia Munn found out, she immediately reported it, which is the reason Fox had the scene deleted.
Munn reveals that the studio chastised her for telling her co-stars. On The Ellen Show, Munn revealed the reasoning behind telling her co-stars was so they wouldn’t be “blinded” like she was.

“I did reach out to my co-stars individually and said ‘hey, I want you guys to know I found this out’ and I found it out through an acquaintance who wanted to know if I knew and I didn’t know them well enough to know if they would say something or not but I figured in that moment they weren’t calling just to kind of give me the heads up,” Munn said. “It was going to be something that would get out there so I wanted to give my co-stars the head’s up so they wouldn’t be blindsided like I was and then when it did come out.”

“Well, first of all, when I did call my co-stars I got chastised the next day by people at the studio for telling them and why am I not just keeping it quiet. ‘It’s all going to be okay, it got deleted, what’s the big deal’ and well, it happened.” – She then went on to describe how the studio disliked that Munn went and told her co-workers.

Munn felt a responsibility to bring this to light, which was a fact that her co-stars and the studio didn’t know. Apparently, Shane Black did apologize for knowingly putting a sex offender in a scene with Munn, where the character fawned over Munn; but Munn has not accepted Black’s apology.

“When we do movies we have this reach, it goes everywhere,” Munn said. “There’s people all over the world that see what we do and just that tiny drop of fame can be used to hurt an impressionable person and that’s just not okay. And when I spoke out and gave a statement to the LA Times, and they had asked the rest of my cast and I’m the only one who did give a statement, I had no idea how bad the details of the case were and what happened to that girl until it came out in the LA Times on Thursday. The reality is that the people who collude to keep people like this in positions of power, that’s the real problem, people who keep turning blind eyes.”

Since this news came to light, co-stars such as Sterling K. Brown and Boyd Holbrook have spoken out.

Our studio was not given that opportunity, and neither was our cast. Especially @oliviamunn who was the only member of the principal cast who had to work with him. I so appreciate that you “didn’t leave well enough alone,” & again, I’m sorry you feel isolated in taking action.

— Sterling K Brown (@SterlingKBrown) September 9, 2018