Olivia Munn Shares She Has “Years To Go” In Her Cancer Treatment
Olivia Munn is mourning the loss of her agent, Tony Etz.
The actress' beloved literary agent died March 10 from a rare form of bone cancer called Chordoma, according to multiple outlets. He was 64.
Olivia—who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023—posted a screenshot of the news to her Instagram story March 11 and wrote, "This makes me incredibly sad. This is my literary agent who passed away from cancer yesterday; but that's not how he deserves to be remembered.”
The Newsroom alum shared that Tony, who was a longtime agent of the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), “should be remembered as one of the good guys in our business. They didn't get better and kinder than Tony.”
“Rest in love, my friend. My thoughts are with his sweet family,” she wrote, adding in a second post, "We all love you, Tony. F*CK CANCER."
Tony spent three decades at the agency, having a hand in shows such as Grey’s Anatomy and representing several writers, directors, actors and producers.
Two years ago, Tony asked if he could write his own obituary and relayed his legacy in his own words.
“Over 30 years as a packaging agent, I was foundational in
the sale of Jackass, House, Lost, Rescue Me, Big Little Lies, Jury Duty and Tracker and dozens of other shows,” he wrote, per Deadline. “And I have been a proud citizen of the best city state in the business.”
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And many of Tony's longtime clients believe that he was the best in the business.
“As a friend, Tony is deeply mourned,” Peter Tolan, co-creator of Rescue Me and The Job, told the outlet. “As an agent, he is irreplaceable; he defended those of us who were fortunate enough to be his clients with a ferocity most of our own mothers would be unable to duplicate.”
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And while Olivia, 44, mourns his death, she understands the challenges he may have gone through as someone who battled cancer herself. As for he X-Men: Apocalypse actress, she recently shared that she is doing better nearly two years after her diagnosis.
“I’m doing good now,” she told E! News at TIME’s Women of the Year Gala in Los Angeles Feb. 25. “I’m feeling really good and feeling really grateful.”
She continued by noting how her husband, comedian John Mulaney, has helped her through the tough times, explaining, “It was such a struggle to go through every day, but he was there making the hard things so much easier. He was making the things that made me really emotional less sad and just made me feel really protected and safe.”
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