Oliva Munn On Bryan Singer - He Directed Us Via Text Message!

Speaking to reporter Ramin Setoodeh, Munn addresses those rumors that Singer would frequently go missing from set during the filming of 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse.

“When we shot ‘X-Men,’ I never shot a huge movie like that before,” she recalls. “I didn’t know what was right or wrong, but I did know that it seemed strange that Bryan Singer could check out and say he had a thyroid issue.”

She continues: “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.”

Munn goes on to claim that Singer, would frequently send texts informing the film’s cast that he wouldn’t be on set that day and so they should just proceed filming without a director.

“And he texted to the actors, ‘Hey guys. I’m busy right now. But just go ahead and start filming without me’,” she recalls. “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.”

She adds, “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. Come to find out it is really strange and it wasn’t OK. But this person is allowed to continue to go on. Fox still gives him Bohemian Rhapsody, and then we all know what happened.“