Olivia Munn Says She Felt ‘Insecure’ Filming Intercourse Scenes On account of Her Most cancers Scars

Olivia Munn put apart feeling self-conscious about her most cancers scars whereas filming intercourse scenes with Jon Hamm. 

The 44-year-old actress and breast most cancers survivor opened up about her scars being seen throughout intimate scenes, whereas selling their new Apple TV+ drama collection Your Associates and Neighbors.

“I used to be actually nervous about doing any intercourse scenes as a result of I’ve plenty of scars,” she stated in an interview with the Los Angeles Instances printed on Friday, April 11. “Scars that may be seen in clothes and scars that you just wouldn’t know until I used to be utterly nude.”

Munn, who underwent her last of 5 surgical procedures days earlier than she began filming, stated she had the help of her costars and crew, however that didn’t essentially make issues simpler mentally.

The X-Males: Apocalypse actress stars as Sam, a divorcee who’s having a secret affair with lately fired and disgraced hedge fund supervisor Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Hamm) within the all-new collection. 

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The actress, who shares son Malcolm Hiệp, 3, and daughter Méi June, 7 months, along with her husband John Mulaney, credit a set intimacy coordinator and soul looking for her progress, however nonetheless stated the method took time. 

“I did really feel insecure, however every time I did it, I felt higher,” she stated.

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She beforehand spoke to PEOPLE about how her double mastectomy and a hysterectomy, which was amid the present’s manufacturing, impacted her.

“I have been in locations the place I really feel like all the things I like has been stripped away from me,” Munn advised PEOPLE. “And I really feel like I am about to lose all the things that I’ve labored arduous for.” 

She additionally shared parallels between her character and herself.

“My character comes from a blue collar background and has married into this, and she or he’s actually formidable,” Munn stated. “She’s a mom of two. Being on this world is all the things that she’s all the time needed and it represents security and stability.”

However viewers meet Sam “proper on the precipice of her dropping all the things,” she added.

Your Associates and Neighbors is now streaming on Apple TV+.