00:00Now it's the sit down with Olivia Munn.
00:02Hi, Olivia!
00:03Okay, we have season two of Your Friends and Neighbors
00:05dropping April 3rd on Apple TV.
00:07What made you most excited to come back for another season?
00:10I love the writing.
00:12The first season when I read the script,
00:13everything was so intertwined
00:15and all kind of came back together
00:16and I really enjoyed the mystery of that.
00:18And I was really intrigued to play a character
00:22who has so many conflicting feelings at once.
00:26You know, the feeling of regret and shame
00:29and justification and indignation
00:32and feeling like life is unfair
00:34and they're unfair and mad.
00:37And how do I encompass all of those feelings at once
00:41and also drive forward through the plot line,
00:45which is, you know, trying to get back
00:47into the good graces of people who hate me?
00:50These people hate me.
00:51We were Google Gaga over the entire cast last season
00:54and now we get James Marsden for season two?
00:57You want to split a chocolate cake?
00:59How are you with gluten?
01:00Can we get two forks, please?
01:01James and I go way, way, way back.
01:04I grew up in Japan and I moved to Oklahoma
01:07and had to join a new school at junior year in high school.
01:11Very difficult.
01:12And I wasn't able to make any friends except for this one person,
01:15Jenny Marsden, the younger sister of James Marsden.
01:19And so he and I met because he came back home to visit his mom and sister
01:24and she was like, will you take some of my friends out for dinner?
01:26And so he took us to dinner and then out to ice cream afterwards.
01:31And that's, we've known each other for that long,
01:34but just knowing that he existed and he was one degree away from me,
01:38I was like, oh, maybe it is possible to make it as an actor.
01:42It's funny because he's in these very important moments in my life.
01:46He inspired me to keep going for my dreams to go to Hollywood
01:49and then to see our connections back through the whole circle.
01:54He had his 50th birthday party.
01:55He invited me to it.
01:56And I had gone through like four of my surgeries for breast cancer at that point.
02:01And I was not feeling like myself and feeling pretty or anything like that.
02:06But I thought this was a great opportunity for me to get dressed up
02:10and go somewhere and just see how I feel.
02:12I got all glammed up and did everything.
02:14And I was starting to, I was like, okay, I feel my best.
02:16And I went to his party and it was such a fun party and it's such a great time.
02:20And when we went back to the hotel, John proposed to me that night.
02:25And he was like, I knew that you would want to feel really great.
02:28And I wanted to give you that moment.
02:30I didn't know when it would be, but when you said you wanted to go to this birthday party
02:33and give yourself a chance to get dressed up, I thought this is, this is the perfect time to do
02:38it.
02:38So it's like, if I didn't go to that party, he would have eventually proposed.
02:44But it was just, it would not have happened that day in that moment.
02:47And it was just such a perfect, a perfect moment.
02:50We read your co-star Amanda Peet's powerful essay in The New Yorker
02:54about her breast cancer diagnosis and journey.
02:56Have you read it? Did you get to reach out to Amanda at all?
02:59She told me last year that she was diagnosed.
03:02And I was so relieved that she found it at such an early, early stage.
03:10I mean, she found it at like almost the earliest that you can find it,
03:13that she really was given a gift of finding it so early that she doesn't have to do all of
03:22the treatment
03:22and all the stuff that's, you know, that you have to do for years and years to come.
03:27And she, she's just incredibly lucky.
03:30And it's just a, another reminder that early detection saves lives.
03:36So, let's do this.
03:36Let's get started.
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