The Predator star Boyd Holbrook has apologised for not speaking out sooner after Olivia Munn spoke out about the casting of a registered sex offender.
Director Shane Black has since apologised for casting his friend Steven Wilder Striege, but Munn has said that she feels "isolated" after raising the issue, despite reaching out to her castmates over the issue as she didn't want them to be "blindsided".
Sterling K Brown apologised on Twitter to Munn on Sunday (September 9) and now Holbrook has released his own statement, confirming that he did pull out of a press interview that he was set to do with Munn (via TheWrap).
"I want to start by apologising for this statement coming late in the current conversation. I do not take any of what has gone on lightly, and I want to speak from the most honest and genuine place possible," he wrote.
"I have stated before, and I will state it again, I am proud of Olivia for the way that she handled a difficult and alarming situation, and I am grateful that Fox took the information seriously and took action swiftly.
"It is true that I pulled out of a small amount of press on Saturday, as this type of social commentary is new to me and given the nature of the originating crime, I felt further discussion could cause unwanted trauma and pain, neither of which I wanted to incite to the anonymous young woman.
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"I now realise that my understanding of the situation was not the full picture and the last thing I want is for Olivia to ever feel abandoned or alone. We are in the midst of a very crucial and important time and it is imperative that we keep listening."
20th Century Fox said that "legal limitations" prevented it from doing background checks on its actors, while Black said: "I apologise to all of those, past and present, I've let down by having Steve around them without giving them a voice in the decision."
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