The Rook's Olivia Munn is used to feeling like an outsider

Olivia Munn knows what it is like to feel like an outsider looking in. PHOTO: WARNER MEDIA
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LOS ANGELES - As an Asian American and the child of a refugee, actress Olivia Munn knows what it is like to feel like an outsider looking in.

And this is why she is drawn to films such as X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) - where she played a mutant superhero - and the series The Rook, a spy thriller about mutants with supernatural powers.

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