text: In an exclusive interview with Variety, Olivia Munn says that Fox initially didn’t return her call after reporting “The Predator” actor Steven Wilder Striegel to the studio. 
   
   “When I called, (Fox) was silent for two days,” the actress told Variety’s Jenelle Riley at the Toronto Film Festival. 
   
   “I did have to reach out again and say I didn’t feel comfortable presenting at the MTV Awards with Keegan (Michael Key) unless this guy was out of it.” 
   
   Fox later deleted the scene, which featured Striegel’s character hitting on Olivia Munn’s character. 
   
   Striegel, a friend of “The Predator” director Shane Black’s, pleaded guilty in 2010 to two felonies — risk of injury to a child and enticing a minor by computer — after facing allegations that he attempted to lure a 14-year-old female into a sexual relationship through the internet. He served six months in jail. 
   
   “I’m not saying they weren’t working on it behind the scenes,” Munn says of Fox. “I just didn’t hear anything about it. But I’m happy that they did obviously because I’m proud of the work we did in this movie, we all worked really, really hard, and I wouldn’t be able to morally stand behind this movie with this guy in there.” 
   
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   A spokesperson for Fox said this week that the studio was unaware of Striegel’s history when casting the film. “We were not aware of his background due to legal limitations that impede studios from running background checks on actors,” the company wrote in a statement. 
   
   “The reason why it’s so important, especially in Hollywood, is because movies are so far reaching. And this kind of movie, it’s an international movie, it’s going to go global, or that’s our hope, and more people see that,” Munn said. 
   
   She added: “When you have somebody on a big screen, no matter how small – we’ve all done little parts in movies – that little grain of fame is just enough to reach out and influence somebody who is impressionable and if you have somebody that has a history of using that to abuse children, that’s not OK in my book. And I do believe people deserve second chances, but I do have a hard line when it comes to people who hurt children or animals. You deserve to go make money, but not alongside me in a film. You can go work in a lot of other places or like make an Etsy store or something.” 
   
   Black has since apologized for the error in judgement in a public statement, but Munn said she was disappointed he never reached out personally to her. 
   
   “I think an apology has to happen privately not just publicly, I believe in his apology that he said he apology to everyone past and present that he’s put in that situation, and that would be me, but I didn’t get that apology, I read about it online like everyone else.” 
   
   “There’s a point when you’re in it, everybody from the top down, they just want you to keep quiet and do anything to help the movie,” she said. “They’re doing some Jedi mind trick like ‘These aren’t the people you’re looking for’ and I’m like ‘That’s not working on me!” 
   
   Black, whose previous credits include “Iron Man 3” and “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” was not available for press at the Toronto premiere of “The Predator” on Thursday. 
   
   Munn stars in Fox’s reboot of the classic sci-fi film alongside Boyd Holbrook and Keegan-Michael Key. 
   
   Since Thursday’s report by the L.A. Times, she said the online support has been nothing short of overwhelming. 
   
   “Sometimes you just need people to validate that you’re not crazy!” 
   
   “The Predator” opens nationwide Sept. 13, 2018. ||||| Munn talks to 'The Hollywood Reporter' about how she alerted Fox about actor Steven Wilder Striegel's status as a registered sex offender, and how difficult it's been to do what she feels is right. "There are people who get very mad at you for not just helping them bury it." 
   
   Shane Black's highly anticipated reimagination of Fox's Predator franchise — a comedic take on the sci-fi thriller starring Boyd Holbrook, Olivia Munn, Sterling K. Brown, Jacob Tremblay and a cast of misfits played by Trevante Rhodes, Thomas Jane and Keegan-Michael Key — scored a coveted slot in the Toronto International Film Festival lineup ahead of its Sept. 14 release. 
   
   But just hours before the Midnight Madness screening on Sept. 6, the Los Angeles Times reported that the studio had deleted a scene from the film starring Munn alongside actor Steven Wilder Striegel (playing a jogger who has an encounter with Munn's biologist character) after it was revealed to Fox by Munn that he is a registered sex offender. Striegel, a longtime friend of Black, pleaded guilty in 2010 following allegations that he had acted inappropriately with a 14-year-old female to whom he was related. According to the Times report, Striegel had exchanged sexually charged emails with the underage girl, and as a result of the guilty plea, spent six months in prison. 
   
   Despite the news, the cast carried on and traveled to TIFF to promote the film ,while Black backed out and did not attend his film's worldwide debut. A studio spokesperson issued a statement, confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter, that Fox executives were not aware of Striegel's background when he was hired. "Several weeks ago, when the studio learned the details, his one scene in the film was removed within 24 hours. We were not aware of his background during the casting process due to legal limitations that impede studios from running background checks on actors," said a Twentieth Century Fox Film spokesperson. 
   
   It has been a complicated few days for the actors and publicists as they navigated a whirlwind schedule of press and on-camera interviews while being forced to walk the delicate line of promoting a big-budget action film and responding to journalists' questions about the controversial situation, which is even more charged in the #MeToo and Time's Up era. Answering a question about why she is still promoting the film, Munn tweeted Friday that she was "contractually obligated," adding that, "From what I’m experiencing, I think they’d prefer I not show up. It would make everyone breathe easier." 
   
   Munn did show up to THR's Video Lounge in Toronto on Saturday afternoon, but instead of doing an interview alongside available castmembers, Munn was joined only by Tremblay after a few of her fellow actors backed out of scheduled interviews, presumably because of the subject matter of the deleted scene. After doing a joint interview with Tremblay, Munn sat for a solo interview in which she discusses what she did after finding out about Striegel's background, what she thought of Black's apology and how she feels about doing promo on her own in the wake of this story. "It’s a very lonely feeling to be sitting here by myself when I should be sitting here with the rest of the cast," she said. 
   
   One of those actors, Keegan-Michael Key, was due to catch a flight out of Toronto and was not among those scheduled to be a part of THR's interview. Key's rep issued the following statement to THR: "His last interview was scheduled after lunch, which he completed. He was always departing TIFF early so he could be home to spend the Jewish holiday with his wife. Furthermore, Keegan reached out to Olivia privately last week to let her know how proud he was of her and echoed that sentiment in many interviews since then." 
   
   Can you walk me through and tell me what the past few days have been like for you after this news came out? 
   
   It’s been most tough on the Jane Doe that was in the story because the victim is the victim. Whatever she’s gone through in the subsequent years is most important to me. The outpouring of support online and from the media and everyone just validating that it's the right thing to do has been really uplifting and helps me breathe a little easier. … We’re making movies. We’re not in the mafia. I haven’t spoken against the family. This guy isn’t in our movie anymore. I try to do the right thing and that’s all I can do, and when I see something, you do something. You don’t just sit back and hope it protects your movie. The movie is a great movie, the scene isn’t in there. It’s going to do well. At the end of the day, it's just a movie. We can’t tell stories about people and not care about people. … There are people who get very mad at you for not just helping them bury it. 
   
   I saw you tweeted yesterday that you’re contractually obligated to be here but it might help everyone breathe a little easier if you weren't. 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 have appreciated it more if it was directed toward me privately before it went public and I had to see it online with everyone else. It's honestly disheartening to have to fight for something so hard that is just so obvious to me. I don’t know why this has to be such a hard fight. I do feel like I’ve been treated by some people that I’m the one who went to jail or I’m the one that put this guy on set. I found out, and it was really important to me to have the scene deleted. When the press found out, they asked for a statement, I gave a statement. I found out those details like everybody else did. It was shocking and disturbing. 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 to be sitting here by myself when I should be sitting here with the rest of the cast. 
   
   Who did you seek counsel from before you made the 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. 
   
   Let’s look forward a bit. I’m wondering how you hope this will change the industry. Do you think this will create a more structured vetting system so that these things don’t happen again? Have you had any of those conversations yet? 
   
   No, I haven’t had any of those conversations. The truth is that the situation that we’re in over the last year or so, the #MeToo movement, it really exists because of the people online who are appalled and outraged and demanding that things be changed. The people who are at the top, the people colluding to keep abusers in power, the people who are colluding to turn a blind eye so that they can keep making money, they are the people who created this disparity in the first place, we can’t really depend on them to make a change. It's the people online and people who express their outrage. For some reason, there seem to be people out there who are only motivated by the bottom line. If the fans and public keep expressing that they won’t go support who are abusers or organizations or companies that support that, then that will make them change. Nothing really changes until people see that it will affect them personally. 
   
   I know this can't be easy for anyone, especially you. 
   
   I appreciate that people care that something like this happened, if someone wants to share their platform and their power with someone who went to prison for hurting a child. Once they’ve gotten out of prison, they’ve served their time, they are allowed to be back out in society and that's their choice if they want to help that person. I wasn't given that choice; that decision was made for me. My choice will always be to never give a second chance to anyone who hurts a child or an animal. That’s me. Everybody has their own prerogative. If you’re going to ask me, that’s going to be my choice. 
   
   Sept. 9, 3:57 p.m.: Updated with statement from Keegan-Michael Key's rep. ||||| It's striking to see Olivia Munn fielding an interview all alone when The Predator, the movie she's repping at Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, is an ensemble effort. 
   
   On Thursday, we learned that Fox cut a scene out of The Predator because it featured a registered sex offender, also a friend of director Shane Black. It was Munn who first alerted the studio that she had shared a scene with this man and set in motion his removal from the film. 
   
   Speaking on Saturday to The Hollywood Reporter, without any cast members at her side, Munn discussed the situation at length. She did what she did because she felt it was the right thing to do, but it's clear not everyone felt that way. 
   
   "There are people who get very mad at you for not... just, you know... helping them bury it," she said carefully at one point. Munn doesn't single anyone out by name on that count, but the absence of — and relative silence from — her fellow actors is notable. 
   
   "It’s a very lonely feeling to be sitting here by myself when I should be sitting here with the rest of the cast," she said. 
   
   (It's easy to miss the nuance of Munn's comments in text form, so do yourself a favor and watch the full interview.) 
   
   .@OliviaMunn: "It's not an easy thing to be the one to speak up. There are people who get mad at you for not helping them bury it ... I'm sitting here by myself when I should be with the rest of the cast" https://t.co/vBnjnVz9cA pic.twitter.com/jP3qReJh64 — Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 8, 2018 
   
   To be clear: Munn only comes off here as a strong woman who's not backing down from her position that she did the right thing. She may admit to feeling a sense of isolation from the cast and crew, but this isn't a pity party, self-inflicted or otherwise. 
   
   That said, it's hard for those of us on the outside looking in to overlook the signs that she's paying a price now for doing the right thing. 
   
   Black hasn't communicated with her at all one-on-one since this story first surfaced. His public apology didn't even address her directly, despite the fact that she's the one who had to perform in a scene with the sex offender, without her knowledge. 
   
   Her fellow cast members have been notably silent and/or absent as well. The intro to THR's coverage of the interview mentions that Munn sat for a paired interview with her fellow star, 11-year-old Jacob Tremblay, before her solo chat. But it goes on to provide additional context on the unusual situation. 
   
   "Munn did show up to THR's Video Lounge in Toronto on Saturday afternoon, but instead of doing an interview alongside castmembers, Munn was joined only by Tremblay after her fellow actors backed out of scheduled interviews, presumably because of the subject matter of the deleted scene," the story reads. 
   
   A representative for The Predator star Keegan-Michael Key reached out to Mashable after this story published and asked us to share the following statement: 
   
   Keegan was never booked to do an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. His last interview was scheduled after lunch, which he completed. He was always departing TIFF early so he could be home to spend the Jewish holiday with his wife. Furthermore, Keegan reached out to Olivia privately last week to let her know how proud he was of her and echoed that sentiment in many interviews since then. 
   
   Munn herself has already explained that she's still repping the movie and at the annual film fest only because she's "contractually obligated" to do so, as she wrote in a Friday tweet. 
   
   I’m contractually obligated. And from what I’m experiencing, I think they’d prefer I not show up. It would make everyone breathe easier. Also, I worked really hard on this film, as did the rest of the cast and crew. Now that the scene is deleted I think audiences will love it. https://t.co/6MZxb4NZfT — om (@oliviamunn) September 7, 2018 
   
   This Is Us and The Predator star Sterling K. Brown isn't in Toronto this weekend, but he did weigh in on Twitter a few hours after Munn's interview with THR published. He defended his fellow actor and echoed some of her words, but the timing led many to wonder why Brown didn't speak up sooner. 
   
   That’s gonna vary from individual to individual. You and @BonafideBlack may differ when it comes to that issue. I don’t have all the details regarding his friend’s crime, but I know it involves a minor, and he spent time in jail. With regards to forgiveness, I leave that to... — Sterling K Brown (@SterlingKBrown) September 9, 2018 
   
   Our studio was not given that opportunity, and neither was our cast. Especially @oliviamunn who was the only member of the principal cast who had to work with him. I so appreciate that you “didn’t leave well enough alone,” & again, I’m sorry you feel isolated in taking action. — Sterling K Brown (@SterlingKBrown) September 9, 2018 
   
   Thank you to @20thcenturyfox for taking quick action in deleting the scene. @oliviamunn I hope you don’t feel quite so alone. You did the right thing. 🕉 — Sterling K Brown (@SterlingKBrown) September 9, 2018 
   
   In this post-#MeToo world, even the good changes tend to come with a fair amount of bad. Here we see it playing out in real time as Munn pays for her act of bravery. 
   
   She spoke up, and in doing so she ensured that one less problematic figure gets to have a redemption arc enabled by his white male friend. But she's standing alone in the aftermath, and she's fielding the same old questions, and delivering the same common-sense answers. 
   
   The truth is that the situation that we’re in over the last year or so, the #MeToo movement, it really exists because the people online who are appalled and outraged and demanding that things be changed. The people who are at the top, the people colluding to keep abusers in power, the people who are colluding to turn a blind eye so that they can keep making money, they are the people who created this disparity in the first place. We can’t really depend on them to make a change. It's the people online and people who express their outrage. For some reason, there seem to be people out there who are only motivated by the bottom line. If the fans and public keep expressing that they won’t go support who are abusers or organizations or companies that support that, then that will make them change. Nothing really changes until people see that it will affect them personally. 
   
   That's Munn responding to a question about whether she thinks the situation with The Predator will lead to broader changes, in this case in the way film casts and crews are vetted. 
   
   It's nothing new, though. How many women have said over the past year (and, let's be clear, since well before that) that change is going to have to be a group effort? How many have pointed out that the system — whatever system they may be referring to in the moment — doesn't ever change because money is still being made? 
   
   It's premature to say that the days of vindictive men blackballing the women that spurn them are over, but it's presumably (hopefully) a lot harder to get away with in the current environment. What Munn is experiencing now, just like others who have spoken up, is a different kind of fallout — but that doesn't make it any better. 
   
   She shouldn't be alone here. Men (and women) who claim to be allies need to actually step up and be allies in the moments that matter. And hey, guess what? This moment matters. It's wrong that Munn is facing the media alone while her other cast members bow out of their commitments. It's wrong that Black hasn't communicated with her directly, even if he's upset about what happened to his friend. 
   
   Too frequently, we hear men excuse their silence with comments like "Well, she's a strong, independent woman who can speak for herself." Or "It's not my place to wade in." Or "I want to hear all the facts first." 
   
   None of that is good enough. Women can be strong and speak for themselves while also reaping the benefits of a robust support network that's ready to act. It's shameful that Munn's co-stars didn't provide that for her here, and that she has to pay any kind of price for doing the right thing. 
   
   UPDATED Sept. 9, 2018, 5:19 p.m. with a statement from Keegan-Michael Key. ||||| CLOSE Sterling K. Brown, Keegan-Michael Key and Olivia Munn star in this fight to save humanity from "The Predator." It's the first film in the franchise since 2010. USA TODAY 
   
   Olivia Munn is pushing ahead with promoting "The Predator" at Toronto Film Festival, even after blowing the whistle on a registered sex offender in the cast. (Photo: Getty Images for IMDb) 
   
   Olivia Munn says she's getting the cold shoulder from "The Predator" cast after flagging 20th Century Fox that an actor in the reboot of the franchise is a registered sex offender. 
   
   The news resulted in Fox cutting a scene from the film with actor Steven Wilder Striegel, who pleaded guilty in 2010 for trying to entice a 14-year-old girl into a sexual relationship on the Internet. (Striegel is a longtime friend of "The Predator" director Shane Black) 
   
   "Our studio was not aware of Mr. Striegel's background when he was hired," Fox told The Associated Press on Thursday just hours before the sci-fi movie premiered at Toronto International Film Festival. "Several weeks ago, when the studio learned the details, his one scene in the film was removed within 24 hours." 
   
   Munn – who plays scientist Casey Bracket in the movie, which arrives in theaters on Sept. 14 – tweeted that audiences will love it "now that the scene is deleted," in light of the #MeToo and Time's Up era. 
   
   Munn, 38, has continued to promote "The Predator" since blowing the whistle on Striegel, but her fellow cast members haven't been supportive. During a scheduled interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Munn said her co-stars bailed on her, with the exception of 11-year-old actor Jacob Tremblay. 
   
   "It’s a very lonely feeling to be sitting here by myself when I should be sitting here with the rest of the cast," Munn told THR. "I do feel like I’ve been treated by some people that I’m the one who went to jail or I’m the one that put this guy on set." 
   
   "Predator" co-star Boyd Holbrook admitted on Instagram that indeed he "did pull out of a small amount of press on Saturday, as this type of social commentary is new to me ..." 
   
   He wrote, "I want to start by apologizing for this statement coming late in the current conversation ... I am proud of Olivia for the way that she handled a difficult and alarming situation, and I am grateful that Fox took the information seriously and took action swiftly." 
   
   Fellow actor Niall Matter also addressed the controversy on Sunday, tweeting that he wasn't at TIFF doing "Predator" press because he was shooting a movie. "I was not privy to any of this information until today," he said. "I’m deeply sorry Olivia that you felt alone in this ... As a father to a daughter I can assure you that my stance is the same as yours. I applaud @20thcenturyfox for doing the right thing by removing the scene with the actor in question." 
   
   As a father to a daughter I can assure you that my stance is the same as yours. I applaud @20thcenturyfox for doing the right thing by removing the scene with the actor in question. — Niall Matter (@niallmatter) September 9, 2018 
   
   In a series of tweets, Munn explained why she continues to promote the fourth installment in the action franchise amid what she said is some backlash from her peers. 
   
   "I’m contractually obligated. And from what I’m experiencing, I think they’d prefer I not show up. It would make everyone breathe easier," she tweeted Thursday. 
   
   I’m contractually obligated. And from what I’m experiencing, I think they’d prefer I not show up. It would make everyone breathe easier. Also, I worked really hard on this film, as did the rest of the cast and crew. Now that the scene is deleted I think audiences will love it. https://t.co/6MZxb4NZfT — om (@oliviamunn) September 7, 2018 
   
   Munn continued: "It’s amazing how many people expect you to put the movie first, especially if you’re the lead. On something like this – where a child has been hurt – my silence will never be for sale. And if it costs me my career they can take it." 
   
   Another one of Munn's co-stars, Emmy-winning actor Sterling K. Brown, took to Twitter to apologize to the actress for feeling alone. (He didn't attend Toronto Film Festival.) 
   
   Brown said "our studio was not given that opportunity" to know who they were working with, especially Munn who appeared in the deleted scene opposite Striegel: "I so appreciate that you 'didn’t leave well enough alone.' " 
   
   Thank you to @20thcenturyfox for taking quick action in deleting the scene. @oliviamunn I hope you don’t feel quite so alone. You did the right thing. 🕉 — Sterling K Brown (@SterlingKBrown) September 9, 2018 
   
   He continued: "Thank you to @20thcenturyfox for taking quick action in deleting the scene. @oliviamunn I hope you don’t feel quite so alone. You did the right thing." 
   
   Co-star Keegan-Michael Key, who left the film festival early to observe a religious holiday, followed suit. "Keegan reached out to Olivia privately last week to let her know how proud he was of her and echoed that sentiment in many interviews since then," his publicist Jillian Roscoe said in a statement emailed to USA TODAY. 
   
   Munn appeared to object to director Black, who was aware of Striegel's legal problems, on Twitter Thursday: "The #MeToo movement called out abusers. But they’re not the only ones in the wrong. Those who know about abuse and not only do nothing but continue to put abusers in positions of power are complicit." 
   
   The #MeToo movement called out abusers. But they’re not the only ones in the wrong. Those who know about abuse and not only do nothing but continue to put abusers in positions of power are complicit. https://t.co/QngLCk9fzj — om (@oliviamunn) September 6, 2018 
   
   Munn told The Hollywood Reporter that Black has not spoken to her since the scene was deleted. 
   
   "I haven’t heard from Shane. I did see his apology ... I would have appreciated it more if it was directed toward me privately before it went public and I had to see it online with everyone else," she said. "It's honestly disheartening to have to fight for something so hard that is just so obvious to me." 
   
   Black has frequently cast Striegel in his films, including 2013's "Iron Man 3" and 2016's "The Nice Guys." 
   
   Black said in a statement on Thursday: "Having read this morning's news reports, it has sadly become clear to me that I was misled by a friend I really wanted to believe was telling me the truth when he described the circumstances of his conviction. I believe strongly in giving people second chances – but sometimes you discover that chance is not as warranted as you may have hoped." 
   
   Munn stars in the film alongside Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes and Thomas Jane, in addition to "This Is Us" star Brown, "Room" breakout Tremblay and Key. 
   
   Contributing: The Associated Press 
   
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   Read or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2N3dEnD ||||| On Thursday night, just hours after the news broke that she had successfully lobbied to cut a scene in which she appeared opposite a convicted sexual offender, Olivia Munn arrived at the midnight premiere of her new film, The Predator. She was joined by many of her male co-stars as well as director Shane Black, who after The Los Angeles Times broke the story said that he regretted casting his friend Steven Wilder Striegel and released a statement apologizing to “all of those, past and present, I’ve let down by having Steve around them without giving them a voice in the decision.” 
   
   One of those people, presumably, was Munn. But as she told Vanity Fair’s executive West Coast editor, Krista Smith, on Saturday, she has not actually heard directly from Black, her co-stars, or the studio since speaking on the record to the Times about her efforts to have the scene cut and the “unsettling” realization that Black had cast Striegel without disclosing his history. (A source close to the production later clarified that at least one co-star had, in fact, reached out.) At the premiere, Munn said that her co-stars—including Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, and Keegan-Michael Key—all stood to give Black what appeared to be an ovation at the beginning of the film. “I looked back and I see the guys standing up, and I was just confused because I hadn’t heard from them during the day. Everybody else was sitting down—it wasn’t like this massive standing ovation for him. I felt it was still appropriate to clap and cheer, but to actually make that gesture to stand up, especially in this moment . . . and privately I knew that no one reached out to me to say, ‘Are you O.K.?’ It did feel bad.” 
   
   As their press duties have continued, Munn said, many of her co-stars have canceled scheduled interviews with her; another, she said, walked out of an interview when the issue of the cut scene came up. When Munn decided to give a comment to the Times, she told Smith, she reached out to all of her co-stars privately to encourage them to make statements of their own. “I wanted them to not be blindsided the way I was blindsided, and I encouraged them to put out a statement once the L.A. Times reached out to us,“ Munn said. “I was surprised that none of them did. Again that’s their prerogative. Right now the reality is that there will be people who wear Time’s Up pins and say they support Time’s Up, [but] there will be people in Time’s Up who aren’t really down with the cause.” 
   
   In an interview at TIFF with The Los Angeles Times, alongside Munn and Augusto Aguilera, Rhodes said, “I wasn’t disappointed in Shane. I was disappointed in the situation, and I’m happy that Liv spoke up.” 
   
   A representative for Keegan-Michael Key said in a statement, “Keegan was never booked to do an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. His last interview was scheduled after lunch, which he completed. He was always departing TIFF early so he could be home to spend the Jewish holiday with his wife. Furthermore, Keegan reached out to Olivia privately last week to let her know how proud he was of her and echoed that sentiment in many interviews since then.” 
   
   On Monday Boyd Holbrook sent the following statement via a representative: “I want to start by apologizing for this statement coming late in the current conversation. I do not take any of what has gone on lightly, and I want to speak from the most honest and genuine place possible. I have stated before, and I will state it again, I am proud of Olivia for the way that she handled a difficult and alarming situation, and I am grateful that Fox took the information seriously and took action swiftly. It is true that I pulled out of a small amount of press on Saturday, as this type of social commentary is new to me and given the nature of the originating crime, I felt further discussion could cause unwanted trauma and pain, neither of which I wanted to incite to the anonymous young woman. I now realize that my understanding of the situation was not the full picture and the last thing I want is for Olivia to ever feel abandoned or alone. We are in the midst of a very crucial and important time and it is imperative that we keep listening.” 
   
   When asked for comment, a Twentieth Century Fox spokesperson said, “Our studio was not aware of Mr. Striegel’s background when he was hired. Several weeks ago, when the studio learned the details, his one scene in the film was removed within 24 hours. We were not aware of his background during the casting process due to legal limitations that impede studios from running background checks on actors.” Representatives for Black, Holbrook, and Rhodes did not provide comment. 
   
   “I kind of feel like I’m the one going to jail,” Munn said. “I didn’t go to jail, I didn’t put this guy on our set. I had this scene deleted. Thank God, honestly, that there is social media. It’s the fans and news outlets that’s confirming it to me that what I did was the right thing. If I didn’t have that feedback, I’d kind of go a little crazy thinking, Why am I being treated like this? That’s not O.K., to feel like the bad guy.” 
   
   As the Los Angeles Times originally reported, Munn was tipped off that Striegel was a convicted sex offender, and notified Fox on August 15; though the Times report said that executives quickly worked to cut Striegel’s scene, Munn told Variety that the studio waited two days to tell her they‘d taken action, and in that time she told them she didn’t feel comfortable presenting at the V.M.A.s on August 20 unless the scene was cut. “Getting a convicted sex offender out of a movie that has global reach is extremely important, but the reality of what I’ve had to go through in this process of just finding out, it’s a crazy thing,“ Munn told Smith. “It’s like I stumbled upon something and now I’m being chased by everyone and isolated.” 
   
   Munn has been working in Hollywood for over a decade, with recent roles in blockbusters like X-Men: Apocalypse and Ocean’s 8, but said that her recent experience has made her consider leaving the industry behind altogether. “I love being an actor, but if it comes at this cost, who wants it? Who cares? I’m so much more than who I am as an actor, and so many other things going on in my life. I love it, but they can take it, if that’s what it comes down to.” 
   
   CORRECTION: This article has been updated to include a clarification from a source that at least one co-star had reached out to Munn. It has also been updated to include a statement from Keegan-Michael Key’s and Boyd Holbrook’s representatives. 
   
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target: – An actor in the Predator reboot was a registered sex offender, and it was one of his famous colleagues who turned him in to the studio. Olivia Munn discovered Steven Wilder Striegel, a friend of The Predator director Shane Black who'd acted in one of the film's scenes with her, had pleaded guilty in 2010 for trying to lure a 14-year-old girl online into a sexual relationship, and she alerted 20th Century Fox—which, she tells Variety, initially didn't return her call. She followed up, and the scene was eventually cut. Since then, Munn says she's "getting the cold shoulder," as USA Today puts it, from fellow cast members and Black, who hasn't spoken to her. "It's a very lonely feeling to be sitting here by myself," Munn told the Hollywood Reporter during a promo interview Saturday in which only 11-year-old co-star Jacob Tremblay showed up to sit next to her. "I do feel like I've been treated by some people that I'm the one who went to jail or I'm the one that put this guy on set," she added. Though two of her co-stars, Keegan-Michael Key and Sterling K. Brown, note they weren't set to do the THR interview and that they support Munn, Munn tells Vanity Fair co-stars have dropped out of more than one interview and that no one else issued statements when she encouraged them to. "Right now the reality is that there will be people who wear Time's Up pins and say they support Time's Up, [but] there will be people in Time's Up who aren't really down with the cause," she says. Meanwhile, in an op-ed for Mashable, Adam Rosenberg writes it's "so very wrong" Black hasn't reached out to Munn directly, and that she's facing the media alone. "It's shameful that ... she has to pay any kind of price for doing the right thing."