The Predator enters their release week with some not the best publicity. Olivia Munn recently spoke against a scene in the upcoming film which involved a registered sex offender. Munn recently discussed her choice to speak out against a registered sex offender featured in The Predator on The Ellen DeGeneres Showon Tuesday. Munn stated,
“The public, social media, fans, strangers on the street, all of the news outlets have been extremely supportive and that’s such a gift because it’s not an easy situation to be in,” she said on the talk show. “It happened about 10 years ago, he’s 38 years old and went after a 14-year-old female relative and when I found that out, I did call Fox and I said, ‘We have to delete this scene,’ and they did, thankfully.”
“I did reach out to my co-stars individually and said, ‘Hey, I want you guys to know I found this out,'” she said. “I found 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 me just to kind of give me the heads-up.”
“It was going to be something that got out there, so I wanted to give my costars a heads-up so that they wouldn’t be blindsided like I was,”
“When I did call my costars, I got chastised the next day by the studio for telling them, and ‘Why am I just not keeping it quiet? It’s all going to be OK. It got deleted. What’s the big deal?’ And I said, ‘Well, it happened.'”
“When you do movies, we have this reach. It goes everywhere, you know. There’s people in 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 not OK and when I spoke out and gave a statement to the LA Times, which they had asked for, they had asked the rest of my cast. I was the only one that 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 that collude to keep people like this in positions of power, that’s the real problem. The people who keep turning blind eyes,”
“My castmembers, nobody said anything to me about it. Nobody talked to me. Nobody reached out that whole day,” she said. “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 and I think that’s what’s really important for people to understand is when you see something, you have to say something. However, it’s not going to be easy and there will be people that just get mad at you for not playing the game.”
“I think that people expected me to be quiet because it’s my movie, but the truth is I don’t care,” she said. “I don’t care if this movie gave me all the money in the world and all the power. If it cost one person’s life, they can take it. I don’t want this career.”
“I so appreciate that you ‘didn’t leave well enough alone,’ & again, I’m sorry you feel isolated in taking action,”
There is no doubt that this news may effect the films box office this upcoming weekend.
