In a gripping behind-the-scenes tale, Olivia Munn described an unusual filming hiccup when a male co-star paused production for a whopping 45 minutes. His stubborn refusal to accept rescue by her character stemmed from a belief that a woman just couldn’t swoop in to save the day.

‘Office Christmas Party’ star Olivia Munn is opening up about an awkward on-set experience with a male co-star. In a recent appearance on a show, the actress revealed that a male co-star once stopped filming for 45 minutes because he refused to be “saved by a woman” in a movie scene.

Olivia Munn narrates the awkward on-set incident

During her appearance on ‘The Drew Barrymore Show,’ the 45-year-old actress made the revelation. Without disclosing the identity of the co-star, the actress recalled, “There have been a few times where I’ve been filming something, and my character was either like CIA, or a cop, or something, and there’s been scenes where my character has been the one to save the other character.” The scene in question featured Munn and her male co-star fighting side by side in a bunker.“If you read the script, he was guarding his side, I was guarding my side, then we switched sides and then there’s a guy coming for him [who] was going to shoot him in the back, so I shoot him,” she recalled. “And then we’re about to shoot and, somehow, I guess he didn’t read the script, and in that moment, he realized, ‘Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. She can’t save me. No, no. She can’t save me.’”

Olivia Munn recalls stepping in to continue shooting

Munn said her co-star then halted production and became “combative with the director” over the moment. She added that he had “no insecurity about being obnoxious and everyone hearing this and being like, ‘She can’t save me! We’re not doing this.’” She then recalled that after 45 minutes of so, she herself stepped in and said, “OK, how about instead of my character saving you, it’s just that we switch because it’s time for us to switch and so this is my guy to get,’” she said. “And he was like, ‘OK.’”

Olivia Munn’s previous awkward encounter

This isn’t the first time Munn shared a bad on-set experience with a male co-worker. During an episode of Dax Shepherd’s ‘Armchair Expert’ podcast, she said a director she worked with on ‘The Newsroom’ tried to “ruin her chances” of getting a film role by telling the studio she was “really combative” while filming.