Olivia Munn is getting candid concerning the affect her breast most cancers surgical procedures have had on her skilled life.
The actress, 44, lately recalled capturing intercourse scenes with Jon Hamm for the brand new Apple+ TV present, “Your Associates and Neighbors” after her operations.
The final of her 5 surgical procedures occurred simply days earlier than the present started filming.
“I used to be actually nervous about doing any intercourse scenes as a result of I’ve quite a lot of scars,” she shared in an interview with the Los Angeles Instances on Friday. “Scars that may be seen in clothes and scars that you just wouldn’t know until I used to be utterly nude.”
Munn performs mother-of-two Samantha Levitt, who’s having an affair with Hamm’s Andrew Cooper within the drama.
“She desires one thing a lot extra from him than he’s keen to offer and their solely connection is thru intercourse,” she defined about her character. “I actually needed that to be portrayed. I needed the intercourse scenes to really feel like intercourse scenes — I needed them to really feel visceral and intense and never maintain again in any respect.”
Munn labored with an intimacy coordinator on set however it nonetheless took time for her to really feel snug, regardless of having the assist of these round her.
“I did really feel insecure, however every time I did it, I felt higher,” “The Gateway” alum stated. “I’m so grateful for my physique as a result of it bought me by means of this.”
It’s a sentiment she echoed whereas speaking to SELF earlier this week.
As Munn put it: “Actually, once I give it some thought, I used to be rather more insecure in previous nude scenes lengthy earlier than I had scars throughout my breasts. Now I view the scars on my physique as battle wounds. I fought to be right here they usually’re proof of that.”
The “X-Males: Apocalypse” actress, who shares son Malcolm, 3, and daughter Méi, 7 months, with husband John Mulaney, has continued to be vocal about her breast most cancers journey since first sharing the information in March 2024.
“I used to be identified with breast most cancers,” she captioned an Instagram put up on the time that detailed what she went by means of in nice size. “I hope by sharing this it can assist others discover consolation, inspiration and assist on their very own journey.”
Within the carousel, Munn defined how she was identified with luminal B breast most cancers in 2023 after a spherical of genetic assessments.
The actress then underwent each a double mastectomy and a hysterectomy as a part of her remedy.
“I used to be strolling round considering that I had no breast most cancers,” she advised Folks in April 2024. “I did all of the assessments that I knew about.”
“You understand most cancers doesn’t care who you might be; it doesn’t care when you’ve got a child or in case you don’t have time,” Munn continued. “It comes at you, and you don’t have any alternative however to face it head-on.”
Reflecting on how her viewpoint has modified since changing into a mother, Munn advised Vogue in Could: “You begin serious about your mortality in another way upon getting a child. It’s his childhood, however it’s my motherhood, and I don’t wish to miss any of those elements if I don’t should.”
Whereas speaking to EXTRA in April, the mom-of-two additionally took a second to gush over her different half, who’s presently engaged on his Netflix present and is on dad responsibility.
“He’s doing nice,” Munn stated of Mulaney, 42. “He simply despatched me a video of himself and my son Malcolm with him on set at this time and Malcolm loves his dad a lot. It’s such a candy dynamic.”
“He can do all of it! He has the bandwidth,” she continued. “It’s really superb. He has the bandwidth to, like, do a stay weekly present on Netflix, stay globally, take my son to highschool within the morning, and browse scripts and he developed a present and he, like, bought a present… He at all times has vitality, and he comes house and he nonetheless, like, desires to unwind by watching a Korean drama with my mother, like, I’m not kidding you, like, he has a lot vitality.”
“Your Associates and Neighbors” is now streaming on Apple TV+.
