After initially declining to pose nude on the cover of Playboy, Olivia Munn agreed to do so, clothed . But once she got on set, Playboy team staged a day-long attempt to coerce Munn into taking it all off anyway.
Munn details the event in her book Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek. After signing a comprehensive contract specifying which specific areas of Munn were on-limits and off for the photographer-side boob and underboob, yes; nipple, butt crack and vagina no-Munn describes all the ways Playboy attempted to convince her to show what she didn’t want to show. Munn presents this as a lighthearted story, but it’s actually a pretty frightening account of how manipulators attempt to coerce their targets into consent:
STAGE 1: Control. Prior to the shoot, Munn requests her “normal glam team-makeup artist, hair stylist and wardrobe stylist,” but the Playboy photographer insisting on using his own stylist for the shoot. The photographer “was really pushing his stylist on me,” Munn writes.
STAGE 2: Denial. Once Munn meets the stylist, a “tall, heavyset, bald man from Scandinavia with a very heavy accent,” the attire was “nothing like we discussed.” He “quite horrifyingly” offers up “a black, fishnet, one-piece bathing suit where you can see everything going on” for Munn to wear. On top, the stylist explains, “you would be wearing nothing under here and then your boobs just hang right over ze pink part.” Writes Munn: “Here we are, contracts decided, conversations spanning weeks about this day, and everyone has a different agenda.”
STAGE 3: Social pressure. When Munn insisted that this was a “non-nude shoot,” the stylist told her that in Playboy, “you show everything!” Munn says she felt “woozy” explaining her contract and “tried to understand what the hell was happening.” The stylist then told her that the photographer “says all nude today for Playboy. It’s Playboy!”
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