Controversy surrounds Bryan Singer and the stories keep emerging to strange and inappropriate behavior that Singer would exhibit when directing films. We’ve heard from Brandon Routh and more. Now, Olivia Munn speaks out about a strange experience while filming the 2016 film X-Men: Apocalypse, where Munn played the mutant Psylocke. Lawsuits were filed against Singer for sexual abuse of underage boys before production began on Apocalypse.
Munn recalls Singer walking off set in Montreal to fly to L.A. for about ten days. According to Singer, it was due to a “thyroid issue”. This meant that for ten days, the movie was left without a director.
Singer’s publicist Howard Bragman commented:
“He saw doctors in Montreal and then came back to see doctors in Los Angeles. And to the best of our recollection, it only affected two days of shooting.”
Munn stated her experience with Singer for Apocalypse:
“It’s possible [to work with women directors]. It’s the problem that I always had in this business, way before the #MeToo movement exposed so much. You’re in it and you see these people who keep failing up, and they’re not that great and you think, “Really?” When we shot “X-Men,” I never shot a huge movie like that before. I didn’t know what was right or wrong, but I did know that it seems strange that Bryan Singer could check out and say he had a thyroid issue.
Instead of going to a doctor in Montreal, which is a very high-level, working city, he said he had to go to L.A. And he was gone for about 10 days is my recollection. And he said, “Continue. Keep filming.” We’d be on set, I remember there’s a big scene that we’d have, and we’d come back from lunch and then one of Bryan’s assistants would come up and show us a cell phone with a text message on it.
And he texted to the actors, “Hey guys. I’m busy right now. But just go ahead and start filming without me.” And we’d be like, “OK.” And I never thought any of it was normal, but I didn’t realize that other people also thought it wasn’t normal. 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.”
What do you think about Singer’s behavior?
Source: Variety
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