--- title: Olivia Munn Shows Off X-Men: Apocalypse Psylocke Moves description: She plays the mutant Psylocke canonical: https://time.com/3981606/olivia-munn-x-men-apocalypse-psylocke/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-02T22:48:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:49:24.844Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: See Olivia Munn Show Off Some Serious 'X-Men' Fighting Skills og:description: She plays the mutant Psylocke og:url: https://time.com/3981606/olivia-munn-x-men-apocalypse-psylocke/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See Olivia Munn Show Off Some Serious 'X-Men' Fighting Skills twitter:description: She plays the mutant Psylocke twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # See Olivia Munn Show Off Some Serious _X-Men_ Fighting Skills by [Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly Aug 2, 2015 10:48 PM UTC by [Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly Aug 2, 2015 10:48 PM UTC Olivia Munn has already shown that [she knows her way around a katana blade](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/29/olivia-munn-aaron-rodgers-sword-fighting-video), but now she’s throwing down some serious martial arts moves. The actress portraying the mutant Psylocke in _X-Men: Apocalypse_ continues filming ahead of a May 27, 2016, release date, and her latest video update posted to Instagram shows she’s ready to kick some butt. Psylocke is known for her impressive hand-to-hand (and foot-to-face) combat skills, and Munn’s [video](https://instagram.com/p/52bb0dMmUI/), posted Saturday, shows her executing a rapid sequence of kicks. Munn previously opened up about her character — and [her character’s form-fitting costume](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/17/xmen-apocalypse-star-olivia-munn-psylocke-latex-costume) — to _EW._ “It doesn’t matter what I’m wearing as long as we’re all aware of who she is,” she said. “She’s very strong and she’s very lethal and she’s very powerful, and it doesn’t really matter what she’s wearing as long as you have that strength and that presence.” _EW_ revealed a first look at Munn’s Psylocke alongside her fellow Horsemen — Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Archangel (Ben Hardy), and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) — as well as the title baddie, Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac). As [she said](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/12/x-men-apocalypse-olivia-munn-geeks-out-over-finally-being-superhero) during Comic-Con, “It really doesn’t feel real. It’s a very cliché thing to say, but it’s just a really surreal thing when you’re on set.” Check out her impressive fighting skills in the video below. **Related Stories** •[_X-Men: Apocalypse_: 5 EW exclusive photos](http://www.ew.com/gallery/first-look-x-men-apocalypse) •[See _X-Men: Apocalypse_ star Olivia Munn’s impressive sword fighting skills](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/29/olivia-munn-aaron-rodgers-sword-fighting-video) •[_X-Men: Apocalypse_ star Olivia Munn on Psylocke’s latex costume: ‘Day 1, I popped my crotch’](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/17/xmen-apocalypse-star-olivia-munn-psylocke-latex-costume) [_This article originally appeared on EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/02/olivia-munn-psylocke-x-men-apocalypse-fighting-skills) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3981606/olivia-munn-x-men-apocalypse-psylocke/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3981606/olivia-munn-x-men-apocalypse-psylocke/"},"headline":"See Olivia Munn Show Off Some Serious X-Men Fighting Skills","datePublished":"2015-08-02T22:48:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:49:24.844Z","description":"She plays the mutant Psylocke","url":"https://time.com/3981606/olivia-munn-x-men-apocalypse-psylocke/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3981606/olivia-munn-x-men-apocalypse-psylocke/","name":"See Olivia Munn Show Off Some Serious X-Men Fighting Skills"}}]}] ```