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- [Host] Hi, Olivia Munn.
- Hey, how are you?
- [Host] Good, how are you? - Good.
- [Host] Thank you for doing this by the way.
I know that this is just a tough situation
for everyone involved and perhaps you the most.
So, can you just walk me through
what the past few days have been like for you
and how you're feeling now that this has come out.
- Well I think that it's been most tough on
the Jane Doe that was in the story
just because it's, you know, the victim is the victim
so whatever she went through and what she's gone through
the subsequent years, that's really
what's most important to me.
We're making movies, you know?
We're not in the mafia, you know?
I haven't spoken against the family.
I try to do the right thing
and that's all I can do is when I see something
you do something, you don't just,
you don't just sit back and hope it products your movie
or 'cause the movie is a great movie.
The scene isn't in there, it's going to do well.
We can't tell stories about people
and then not care about people.
People understand that it's not an easy thing
to be the one to speak up
and there are people who get very mad at you
for not just you know,
helping them bury it.
- [Host] How hard has it been
walking through this with your cast
and with Shane Black?
- Well, I haven't heard from Shane,
I did see his apology that he put out.
I appreciate the apology.
I would appreciate it more if it was
actually directed towards me privately before it went public
and I had to see it online with everybody else
but it's honestly disheartening
to have to fight for something so hard
that is just so obvious to me.
Not with the media and social media
and people that are close to me
and from strangers that I meet on the street
and people saying things
but I do feel like I've been treated
by some people as if I'm the one who went to jail
or I'm the one who put this guy onto our set.
It was really important for me
to have the scene deleted
and when the press found out, they asked for a statement,
I gave a statement and I found out all those details
like everybody else did and it was shocking and disturbing
and now when I'm being asked about it
I don't know how to lie about it.
I don't know how to pretend,
I don't know how to skirt around the issue
I just know how to be honest about it.
It's a very lonely feeling too,
to be sitting here by myself when I should be here
with the rest of the cast.
- [Host] Who did you seek council from
before you made that phone call to Fox?
- No one, I called my lawyer and my manager
and I said, "I need you to tell them right now about this."
I found out and my very next call was to them.
The situation that we're in over the last year or so,
the Me Too movement, it really exists
because of the people online who are appalled and outraged
and are demanding that things be changed
'cause it's the people who are at the top,
the people who are colluding to keep abusers in power,
the people who are colluding to turn a blind eye
so that they could just keep making more money.
They're the people who created this disparity
in the first place so we can't really depend on them
to make a change.
It's the people online and people who just express
their outrage.
For some reason, there seem to be people out there
who are only motivated by the bottom line.
So, if the fans and the public keep expressing
that they won't go support people who are abusers
or organizations or companies that support that,
then that will make them change.
But nothing really changes until people really see
that it's going to affect them personally.
- [Host] Thank you, I know that this isn't easy
for anyone and especially you, so we appreciate
you takin' the time to--
- Well, I do, I mean, I appreciate that people care
that something like this happened and that
it's not okay to,
look, if somebody wants to share their platform and power
with someone who went to prison
for hurting a child, that's their choice
if they want to help that person.
I wasn't given that choice, that decision was made for me
and my choice will always be
to never give a second chance to anybody who hurts a child
or hurts an animal.
Everybody has their own prerogative
but if you're going to ask me, that would be my choice.