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We go hog wild over That '70s Show star Mila Kunis.
Mila Kunis and her family left Russia when she was seven years old. She lives in Little Odessa West, Los Angeles' gay, Russian neighborhood. Her mom's a scientist, and her dad does what every hardworking immigrant does: He drives a cab. Her parents must look at Mila's swelling trust fund every morning and sing "God Bless America" with Cyrillic subtitles. Mila speaks English with just a trace of the old country, which will make her prime Bond Girl material in about five years. Now she's starring in Get Over It, a romantic comedy with Kirsten Dunst and Kylie Bax, even while she continues to costar in the hit Fox sitcom That '70s Show. I like to think of Mila in her pink shag bedroom, dressed in a sports bra and Lakers shorts, holding a cup of hot cocoa, munching Double Stuf Oreos and getting crumbs all over her belly. (You can thank me for that image later.)
STUFF: You've said that you suck at bowling. What else do you suck at?
MILA: I love to bowl as a social thing, but yeah, I'm no good at it. I'm bad at every sport there is. I'm athletically challenged. I'm a good dancer, though.
You're home alone with nothing to do. What's going on?
I'm so boring. I watch the same movies over and over again. Pretty Woman and Clueless. The Princess Bride, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink—all those old '80s chick flicks. And Grease. I can watch Grease continuously for hours. I know all the words. I watch it, rewind it and watch it again. All night.
That's really, really odd. Actually, frightening.
It's a sickness.
Yes, it is. So no dancing or jumping up and down on the bed?
Maybe. If I'm in the mood, I'll dance to Pink or Limp Bizkit. And when the girls come over…Oh, then we talk about boys. About how dumb boys are.
I'll bite: How dumb are they?
Very dumb. You should come over and tape our conversations.
OK, what time?
[Awkward silence]
What would I hear?
"My friend just broke up with her boyfriend," that sort of thing. It's like Sex and the City. We eat and talk about boys and watch chick flicks and talk about boys some more. Always boys. This one did that. That one did this. He's cute. He's…not. Boys, boys, boys.
Sounds like Christmas at Gore Vidal's house. So did you get a boyfriend just to have something to talk about?
Yeah. No. I do have a boyfriend. And he's very cool. He's an actor.
Jack Nicholson?
No, no. We just hang out. We don't go out on dates. We're always working.
Do you ever watch your show with your friends?
No. I've probably seen it on TV once. My friends—I don't think they've ever watched the show. We never talk about it.
That's hard to believe.
They couldn't care less about this TV stuff. Blah, blah, blah. These are the five or so friends I've had since I was, like, nine. So we all grew up together, and this is my job, like I work at Dairy Queen.
Yep, being a TV star is just like working at Dairy Queen. So, are you gonna stay with That '70s Show?
Oh, yeah. I want to do it as long as we can. I hope that me and Ashton Kutcher—he plays Kelso—will get together either by the end of this year or next season.
Is he this mysterious boyfriend?
We're all friends. I'm the youngest one in the cast, and I look at all of them as my older brothers and sisters.
Come on. He's the It guy. Even I'm turned on by him.
No, no. We're just friends. He's really good at science, and he tutored me through science when I took it in high school and my teacher was so retarded. Anyway…
Do you relate to all that '70s stuff?
Older people do.
You mean like 20-year-olds?
They go, "Oh, that's just like it was when we got high." Younger people can relate to the teenage dilemmas that happen at every age, like stealing the car, having sex, things like that. I miss those teen years of stealing cars and having sex.
By the way, what are you doing with your money?
It all goes into my trust account, so I don't have any money on me. I wasn't asking for a loan. I know. I have to borrow from my parents to buy clothes or go to the mall. I'm always going, "Can I have $20?"
Where's the big money going? Posters? Stuffed animals? Pink scented candles?
It's all going into my account for college. But I did get an SUV, which I love. And I did fly to New York to see the World Series, but Fox paid for that.
And I bet you really follow the sport.
You get a lot of perks in this business, and I take advantage of all of them. It's my favorite thing to get stuff for free—free flights, free clothes.
I know what you mean. Stuff is paying for us to eat sandwiches in this diner. Anyway, what's your addiction? Everyone has at least one.
The industry. I just want to work. I need it. I want to do this show. I want to do movies. It's an addicting industry. You get hooked. Once you have a little taste, you want more and more. I just want more.
OK, easy now…
I started when I was nine, doing commercials, a whole bunch of spots on TV shows—7th Heaven, Baywatch, I played the young Angelina Jolie in Gia. So I've been working steadily, and I can't get enough. It's fun, but it's hard. There's amazing pressure, and there's crushing rejection.
Angelina Jolie is hot.
[No response]
What do you want to do when you grow up?
I want to keep acting. Maybe one day I would like to have my own production company. But I'm young enough not to rule out other possibilities, too, like becoming a ballet dancer or even an astronaut.
Why not both? You could do Swan Lake in space.
[Mila signals for the check.]
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