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Olivia Munn claimed that Alec Baldwin blocked her from landing a domiciled connected “30 Rock” because he didn’t deliberation she looked aged capable to play his emotion interest.
The character revealed successful a caller question and reply that she’d landed nan domiciled of Avery Jessup, but 2 days later she was told Baldwin thought she “looked excessively young.”
“Another 2 days later, ‘No, no, no. They deliberation you’re perfect. You’re going to alert retired connected Saturday.’ Friday, ‘No, no, no. Alec thinks that you look excessively young and he’s putting his ft down,'” she told nan Hollywood Reporter.
Munn, 45, noted that Elizabeth Banks yet sewage nan domiciled of Avery.
Page Six has reached retired to Baldwin’s rep for comment.
Avery, a financial CNBC newsman and Jack Donaghy’s (Baldwin) early wife, is introduced connected “30 Rock” during Season 4 successful 2010.
At nan time, Baldwin was 52 and Banks was 36, while Munn was 30.
Munn told THR that while she knows starring successful the NBC sitcom would’ve been her “big break,” she wasn’t “devastated” astir nan firing.
“I only thought to myself, ‘Wow, look really acold I got,'” she said. “I ended up not getting nan occupation because of thing I couldn’t control.”
“On my expertise and my acting, I sewage it,” Munn added. “It gave maine truthful overmuch confidence.”
Munn stated that getting nan “30 Rock” occupation connection was capable for her.
“These people, iconic group — Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, Grace Wu astatine NBC casting — they each thought that I was bully capable to person gotten nan offer,” she said.
“That’s what I needed. Whether aliases not I sewage nan occupation didn’t impact my confidence.”
Looking backmost connected nan situation, Munn said she “felt really good” going into her “30 Rock” audition.
“I dressed for nan part, which I’d ne'er really done before. I signed successful and I walked extracurricular adjacent nan soundstages. Normally I’d want to beryllium correct there. I’d want them to spot me. “I conscionable had this assurance like, ‘They’ll travel find me,'” she explained.
Munn continued, “I kept moving connected it until I sewage into nan room. I conscionable stayed successful [the character]. I sewage nan telephone that I booked nan job, and I knew that I protected my psyche and kept myself from emotion envy and title pinch nan different women.”
Despite losing nan gig, Munn made a sanction for herself starring successful “The Newsroom” connected HBO from 2012 to 2014 and films for illustration “X-Men: Apocalypse” (2016) and “The Predator” (2018).
She presently stars other Jon Hamm successful nan popular Apple TV bid “Your Friends and Neighbors.”
