LEADER OF THE PACK

Long before the #MeToo movement was ignited, actress Olivia Munn exposed the sexual misconduct of some of Hollywood’s biggest power players. Here, she explains how it’s a move that almost cost her her career – and why you should never write off an underdog

Words SHOSHANA GOLDBERG

She knows how it feels to be alone, fighting against a world that does not want your voice in it. She first learned this when she was 13 years old. A marauding group of teenage girls would single her out at school. They would laugh at her clothes, tell her she looked stupid, push her, one after the other, before menacingly telling her they wanted her “out of our school”. One day Olivia saw her older sister, Sara – a popular girl at the same school – being approached by the bullies. She watched from the sidelines, hopeful that her sibling would deliver a cutting coup de grace. Instead she did nothing. “So I raced after her and said, ‘Why didn’t you tell them off?’ And she simply said,‘They don’t matter.’”…

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Cosmopolitan UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2018

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