Actress Olivia Munn is complaining that a male co-star objected to a scene in which her character saves his, leading to a dispute on set.  The 45-year-old ranted about the unnamed colleague during a recent appearance on “The Drew Barrymore Show.”  “There have been a few times where I’ve been filming something, and my character was either like CIA, or a cop, or something, and there’s been scenes where my character has been the one to save the other character,” Munn told the talk show host, noting that the scene involved her and the co-star fighting side by side in a bunker.  “If you read the script, it was that he was guarding his side, I was guarding my side, then we switch sides and then there’s a guy that was coming for him who was gonna shoot him in the back, so I shoot him,” she went on. “And then we’re about to shoot and, somehow, I guess he didn’t read the script, and in that moment, he realized, ‘Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. She can’t save me. No, no. She can’t save me.’” Munn claimed that her colleague was “combative with the director” and held up production for close to an hour. The actress lamented that he had “no insecurity about being obnoxious and everyone hearing this and being like, ‘She can’t save me! We’re not doing this.’” “Finally, after like 45 minutes of just stopping down, I said, ‘OK, how about instead of my character saving you, it’s just that we switch because it’s time for us to switch and so this is my guy to get,’” she told Barrymore. “And he was like, ‘OK.’” Online commenters called out Munn for her complaints, criticizing what they view as a double standard in Hollywood. “So it’s totally cool for a woman to feel like she doesn’t need to be saved by a man, but it’s bad if a man thinks he doesn’t need to be saved by a woman? Did I get that right?” one popular reaction said. “And if Olivia Munn refused to be ‘damseled’ in a scene, you bet your bippy it would be a tale of female empowerment,” another agreed. Many commenters called Munn out for not naming names, leading them to question the story entirely. Calling out colleagues without naming them has become a bit of a pattern for the “X-Men: Apocalypse” star. Last summer, she complained about a director she worked with on HBO’s “The Newsroom” who she claimed tried to sabotage her. “I was on the one-yard line for the movie, and my manager calls me and says, ‘Hey, you’re gonna get the role. But first, I guess there’s another director who they know and he says that on “The Newsroom” you were late all the time and really combative,’” Munn said at the time.  “I lived seven minutes from there. I was never late. I was like, ‘I know who this is.’ He just was trying to bash me. And I told my reps, ‘Please tell the directors this.’ And then I still got the role. But I will always remember that just because of our conflicts of how we approached a role, he wanted to ruin my chances of getting anything else.”

Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman said it was a “surreal” and inspiring experience to be completely cut off from Earth for about 40 minutes while the Orion spacecraft rounded the far side of the Moon. Wiseman made the comments during a media call from space on Wednesday night as he and his fellow astronauts continued their journey back to Earth. During their record-breaking journey around the Moon on Tuesday, communications were temporarily lost when the Moon blocked radio signals between Orion and NASA. The communication disruption was expected. “I’m actually getting chills right now,” Wiseman told reporters. “My palms are sweating, but it is amazing to watch your home planet disappear behind the Moon.” He described watching Earth gradually vanish from view as the spacecraft moved along the Moon’s far side. “You could see the atmosphere, you could actually see the terrain in the moon, projected across the Earth as the Earth was eclipsing behind the moon. It was really, it was just an unbelievable sight. And then it was gone.” LIVE: Artemis II astronauts answer media questions as they continue their journey toward Earth following their record-breaking lunar flyby. https://t.co/iAN74RMaRk — NASA (@NASA) April 9, 2026 Communication was restored once Orion emerged from behind the Moon. After regaining contact, Wiseman said the crew paused briefly to take in the moment before continuing their scientific observations.  “We shared maple cookies that [astronaut Jeremy Hansen] had brought, and we took about three or four minutes, just as a crew, to really reflect on where we were, and then it was right back into the science,” he said. “And it is a surreal feeling, but we had a lot of work to do, too, and I think that kept our focus.” Wiseman also reflected on an emotional moment during the mission, when the crew named a lunar crater after his late wife, Carroll, who died of cancer in 2020. That moment came shortly after the astronauts surpassed the distance record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. “We all pretty much broke down right there, and just for me personally, that was kind of the pinnacle moment of the mission for me,” Wiseman said. “That was, I think, where the four of us were the most forged, the most bonded, and we came out of that really focused on that day ahead.” The Orion spacecraft is expected to splash down Friday in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at around 8:07 p.m. EST.

It’s becoming a weekly ritual: California’s First Lady opens her mouth, inserts her foot, and the rest of the country winces. In a resurfaced interview, Jennifer Siebel Newsom recounts telling prisoners at San Quentin State Prison that she could relate to them. Why? Because at age six, she accidentally struck and killed her eight-year-old sister with a golf cart during a family vacation in Hawaii. She wasn’t punished, she explained, because it was clearly an accident, and she wanted those inmates to know their crimes were “probably an accident too.” To call that comparison a stretch would be the understatement of the century. Here’s the silver lining: if she keeps this up, she will single-handedly torch whatever remains of Gavin Newsom’s presidential ambitions. But there’s a larger point that cannot be glossed over. Democrats have long acted like they care more about criminals than their victims. Now they’re just saying the quiet part out loud. The prison known as “The Q” has become the Newsoms’ progressive playground. The couple has poured millions into rebranding the facility as a “rehabilitation center” for wayward souls, even though the vast majority of its 3,500 to 4,000 inmates are Level II and Level IV prisoners with rap sheets containing murder, assault, armed robbery, and rape. This is the same prison that once housed the largest death row in America — until Gavin Newsom imposed a moratorium on executions in 2019. At least 650 condemned inmates were then quietly integrated into the general population. Empathy, apparently, has no room for such inconvenient details. And who exactly are these “wronged individuals” the Newsoms are so eager to coddle? Scott Peterson, who murdered his pregnant wife Laci and their unborn son Connor, and Richard Allen Davis, who kidnapped and strangled 12-year-old Polly Klaas, for starters. The prison has also held Charles Manson, Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, and a rogues’ gallery of serial killers. But still — ‘accidents happen’ the First Partner assures us! The bleeding-heart Newsoms just feel too strongly for these poor souls. They want to ease their sentences and — one suspects eventually — set them free. This is not an isolated gaffe. Progressives are increasingly defending the perpetrator over the victim, and they’re doing it with brazen clarity. Remember the State of the Union, when Democrats refused to stand for the simple proposition: “The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. If you agree with this statement, stand up and show your support.” That moment crystallized the divide. Democrats care about “them,” not you. It doesn’t matter that 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, or that 15-year-old Amber Paris was allegedly killed by a Guatemalan illegal immigrant speeding through North Carolina, or that 7-year-old Delilah Coleman will never walk again after an illegal immigrant from India crashed into her family’s car. The progressive catechism demands solidarity with the “oppressed” (i.e., criminal) over the “oppressor” — no matter the facts. Despite a $3 billion state deficit in the 2026-27 budget and a total price tag for the “California Model” prison overhaul now reaching $14.2 billion, the Newsom administration carved out $78.5 million specifically for San Quentin’s physical makeover into a feel-good “rehabilitation center.” Compare that architectural largesse to the relative crumbs tossed at victim-services programs in the neighborhoods these criminals terrorized. Violent crime in California remains nearly 10 percent higher than pre-pandemic 2019 levels. Aggravated assaults are still roughly 22 percent higher. The state’s overall recidivism rate hovers between 45 and 50 percent, even as boutique programs brag about single-digit success stories for a tiny slice of participants. This is an expensive experiment with other people’s safety. Which brings us back to Jennifer Siebel Newsom and the story she told those inmates. She was six years old, playing with her eight-year-old sister Stacey and other children on golf carts during a family vacation in Hawaii in 1981. The cart she was driving slipped into reverse. She did not see her sister behind it. The tragedy that followed was, by any measure, a genuine accident — the kind of event that would leave any child scarred. “I felt the pressure to be perfect,” she later told the Los Angeles Times, “to make my parents forget, by being two daughters instead of one.” She described the survivor’s guilt, the compulsion to compensate, to improve other people’s lives, to do double the good. It’s no wonder she’s the way she is. But sympathy does not require the eradication of judgment. The men Jennifer Siebel Newsom addressed at San Quentin were not involved in golf cart accidents. They were convicted killers, rapists, and predators. Projecting her childhood trauma onto their deliberate acts of violence is not empathy. It is a category error with consequences, and those consequences are carried not by the Newsoms but by the families of Laci Peterson, Polly Klaas, and every other victim whose killer now enjoys a governor’s reprieve and a First “Partner’s” suicidal empathy. Soft on crime, hard on victims: If this is the compassion the progressive left wants to export to the rest of America, voters would be wise to decline the invitation. Some accidents, after all, are entirely avoidable.

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