United Kingdom, April 30 -- James Marsden had a "crazy" connection with Olivia Munn when he was younger.

The 51-year-old actor recalled the early days of his career when he was trying to make it and went home to visit his family where he discovered that his sister was friends with Olivia, 22, in the years before she found global fame herself.

He told People: "About four or five years after I moved to L.A., I found some success. I was on a TV show. And I was kind of known around town back home as someone who had moved to LA and and, you know, made it or whatever.

"So, I went back home to see my sister, and she was like, 'You mind coming to dinner with me and some of my girlfriends from school?' I was like, 'Yeah, sure, sure, sure,' you ...