Olivia Munn: ‘Newsroom’ Actress was told she was ‘too Asian’ in Auditions

Before Olivia Munn gained widespread fame mainly from her role as Sloan Sabbith on the HBO Show, "The Newsroom," she was having difficulties landing bigger roles due to her mixed race.

The 34-year-old actress revealed that early on in her acting career, she was often told during auditions that she was either "too Asian" or "too White." Munn's mother is of Chinese descent, whereas her father is American/European.

''I'd go out for so many auditions, for everything. And then I'd be told, 'You're too Asian,' or, 'You're too white.' I remember someone telling me, 'Don't feel bad. One day they won't be trying to match you to fit with anyone else. You'll just be hired for you,'" Munn said in an interview with Prestige Hong Kong magazine. "So you can't help but get frustrated. That's part of it all. There's always competition in any business. And all it takes is one role. Not even necessarily a great role. Just one job that makes you feel like you're a working actor. One job can turn your whole life around."

In the interview, Munn also talked about using her language skills in "The Newsroom." Munn, who was raised by her mother and stepfather in Tokyo, speaks fluent Japanese.

"I was lucky on 'The Newsroom', because [Aaron] Sorkin wrote an amazing episode where I could. He asked me if he could put a few Japanese words in, and I said sure. Then he said, 'Do you mind if it's a sentence or two?' And of course that was fine. And then I get the script and its full-on massive dialogue. Sorkin dialogue is hard enough to do in English - imagine doing it in Japanese ... But I was very happy to use it. Even though I'm half Asian, most people didn't know that I could speak a second language.''

Since "The Newsroom" ended, Munn has been casted in several movies including, "Ride Along 2," "Zoolander 2" and "X-men: Apocalypse." She also starred in "Mortdecai."