Elizabeth Banks’s 30 Rock character, Avery Jessup, was almost played by actress Olivia Munn. And on Friday, she revealed that it was the show’s star, Alec Baldwin, who made the calls to have her replaced in the role.
Munn, 45, who is promoting her Apple TV+ show Your Friends & Neighbors, told the rest of the story behind her hiring and then removal from NBC’s 30 Rock in an interview withThe Hollywood Reporter out Friday.
“I got the job…and then two days later, they were like, ‘Alec thinks that you look too young to play his love interest.’” Munn said the decision seemed to be up in the air for a while.
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