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Olivia Munn's career has had no shortage of surprise. The actress who started not-so-fortuitously with roles as "Girl No. 1" and "Asian Mob Girl," then progressed to a gig as "geek sex symbol" on Attack of the Show and too many magazine covers, is now friends with Jon Stewart and a regular on Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom. And the strangest thing of all is that she's never seemed more likable.
Munn knows how to respond to criticism. She's taken the flak over her appointment to The Daily Show in stride and even relived it, in a way, on The Newsroom. Her role as Sloane is almost absurdly flattering, and as preposterous as anything on the show: She's an economics Ph.D who's fluent in Japanese and "doesn't get" men. But it's also clear why she's there — as MacKenzie McHale tells her early on, she's got great legs. And Munn plays the character with a goofy and guileless charm that everyone else in the cast apparently lacks. The more she's on, the more you want her to stay there.
Also not modest but very funny: "Ghost Tits," the new fake trailer in which Munn's fictional boyfriend wakes up one day to find that her endowment has disappeared. It works both as a parody of the increasingly annoying it-never-happened movie trend (The Missing) and as a nod to Munn's image. "I've always been flat," she deadpans. "Why are you doing this to me?" If you're going to own up, this is the way to do it.
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