Olivia Munn admits she felt ‘really nervous’ filming sex scenes with John Hamm amid cancer battle

Olivia Munn’s cancer diagnosis made her consciousness “insecure” astir shooting activity scenes pinch John Hamm.

“I was really tense astir doing immoderate activity scenes because I person a batch of scars,” nan character confessed successful a caller question and reply pinch nan Los Angeles Times published Friday.

“Scars that tin beryllium seen successful clothing and scars that you wouldn’t know unless I was wholly nude.”

Munn, 44, learned she had bosom crab successful April 2023. She underwent a double mastectomy 30 days later and had 4 surgeries full complete nan people of nan adjacent 10 months.

The TV prima had signed connected astatine nan clip to do “Your Friends & Neighbors,” other Hamm, 54, successful which she plays his characteristic Andrew Cooper’s longterm mistress Samantha Levitt.

Because of nan move betwixt nan characters, Munn recognized nan value of nan activity scenes.

“She wants thing truthful overmuch much from him than he’s consenting to springiness and their only relationship is done sex,” she added to nan LA Times.

“I really wanted that to beryllium portrayed. I wanted nan activity scenes to consciousness for illustration activity scenes — I wanted them to consciousness visceral and aggravated and not clasp backmost astatine all.”

Munn shared that she and Hamm worked pinch an intimacy coordinator, and she besides did a batch of psyche searching, which helped get her done nan performances.

“I did consciousness insecure, but each clip I did it, I felt better,” nan “Newsroom” alum said, adding that contempt her unwellness she was “so grateful” for her assemblage because it “got [her] done this.”

Aside from Hamm, Jonathan Tropper, who created nan caller Apple TV+ series, besides provided Munn pinch a batch of support connected group aft learning astir her wellness struggles.

“When personification tells you that, you conscionable show them that you dream they’re doing OK and their wellness is what’s astir important,” he told nan LA Times.

“We committed to doing what we had to do connected nan show to make judge she was resting erstwhile she needed to remainder and that we could do what we could pinch her schedule to make judge she sewage nan clip she needed for her health.”

Tropper added, “It wasn’t a terribly difficult speech astatine all, because she’s truthful amazingly candid astir that — and astir beautiful overmuch everything.”

Munn is now cancer-free, but said nan bully news has travel pinch a bittersweet caveat, noting, “I will beryllium looking complete my enarthrosis for nan remainder of my life.”

“Your Friends & Neighbors” is now streaming connected Apple TV+, pinch caller episodes premiering Fridays.