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Olivia Munn Hasn't Heard From Director Shane Black in Wake of 'Predator' Controversy


Includes interview with Munn.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oliva-munn-predator-casting-controversy-toronto-film-festival-1141255

But just hours before the Midnight Madness screening here Sept. 6, the Los Angeles Times reported that the studio had deleted a scene from the film starring Munn alongside actor Steven Wilder Striegel (playing a jogger who has an encounter with Munn's biologist character) after it was revealed to Fox by Munn that he is a registered sex offender. Striegel, a longtime friend of Black, pleaded guilty in 2010 following allegations that he had acted inappropriately with a 14-year-old female with whom he was related. According to the Times report, Striegel had exchanged sexually charged emails with the underage girl, and as a result of the guilty plea, spent six months in prison.

Despite the news, the cast carried on and traveled to TIFF to promote the film while Black backed out and did not attend his film's worldwide debut. A studio spokesperson issued a statement, confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter, that Fox executives were not aware of Striegel's background when he was hired. "Several weeks ago, when the studio learned the details, his one scene in the film was removed within 24 hours. We were not aware of his background during the casting process due to legal limitations that impede studios from running background checks on actors," said a Twentieth Century Fox Film spokesperson.

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We were not aware of his background during the casting process due to legal limitations that impede studios from running background checks on actors," said a Twentieth Century Fox Film spokesperson.


What kind of weird law is that? Does that mean there's a ton of registered sex offenders in everyday movie/TV roles out there?

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Is paying for your crimes supposed to ruin your life forever? What his past has to do with his life now, live in the present, what he did is over, done, help people to get better by giving them a chance. It is no different from the case with James Gunn, we are not victims of the past, we help the world by helping them be part of the society, not condemning them for the rest of their lives, even without knowing or meeting such people, simply judged just by the information of their past alone, no individuality, nothing, it seems not to matter to these big corporations. I feel people are awakening to this whole backwards way how people treat each other, there's been studies done that came with a hypothesis that if people in the US appropriately treated prisoners with real natural medicine and helped them with real compassion, 3/4 of all of them would not need to be sentenced for so long, but they have to be, because most of the society in America itself is unable to live with forgiveness and without vengeful heart. The more crimes and prisons the more of a reflection of the society itself, most people are responsible for other people's criminal actions, it is inter-connected and internalized and goes from generation to generation, how parents raise children and other people treat them. The value of forgiveness and compassion for God's creation (that means everyone/everything) which connects to mental health is something that can be brought back, maybe just by observing Tibetan societies for example, one can learn something.

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Doesn't help that he was caught doing some Chris Hansen to Catch a Predator stuff, though.

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