In a recent interview, Olivia Munn shares just how different her Newsroom character, Sloan Sabbith, could have played out if she didn't stand up to directors.

According to the actress who brought the role of the fast talking financial analyst/genius to life on the recently ended HBO show, directors wanted her to "take the girly fourte" as well as "smile and smirk." Munn thought otherwise, and thankfully, show creator, Aaron Sorkin was on her side on this one.

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"He was like, 'One hundred percent not. Do not,'" she shares, "and we were always on the same page and then he would come up and back me right away."

"When you have him backing you -- that meant everything," she adds.

The 34 year old star is now poised to appear next to Johnny Depp in the about to be released film, Mortdecai and recalls how directors would comment on how she apparently wasn't being "flirty" enough to her love interest on the show, producer Don, played by Thomas Sadoski.

"One director pulled me aside and said 'Olivia, the thing is, I'm the director, so I have to look at the entire rainbow [...] and you're bringing something but I don't think you realize maybe how you're coming off,'" she recounted. "... I go, 'Oh, so do you don't think I realize how my choices are coming off? [...] How am I coming off?"

"I felt like, just because you're in a relationship doesn't mean you have to start being like, all giggly and girly," she said. "... I've [heard] from a lot of women telling me 'I'm happy you didn't become all mushy and soft and become one of those women who gets weird when they're in a relationship."

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