...And She's Funny, Too: A GQ&A with Mila Kunis

GQ: Your new movie is called Friends with Benefits. Ever been in one of those relationships?
Mila Kunis: Oy. I haven't, but I can give you my stance on it: It's like communism—good in theory, in execution it fails. Friends of mine have done it, and it never ends well. Why do people put themselves through that torture?

GQ: It's because they enjoy sex.
Mila Kunis: But friends with benefits isn't a purely sexual relationship—it's two people who like each other having sex, not a random hookup. And when two people who like each other have sex, eventually someone catches feelings and everything is fucked. You might be able to treat our relationship as killing time. I might not. I may be in love with you.

GQ: Mila, it's just not going to work.
Mila Kunis: But I feel like I'm in love with you, okay? I love you.

GQ: So I went back and watched some of your earliest movies, and—
Mila Kunis: Oh Lord! I'm so sorry, buddy. How can I make it up to you?


GQ: By telling me what it was like to act with William Shatner [in American Psycho 2] and Hulk Hogan [in Santa with Muscles].
Mila Kunis: Jesus. You did not watch Santa with Muscles.

GQ: Fine. I watched the trailer on YouTube.
Mila Kunis: I was too young to fully understand the importance of working with Hulk Hogan. I just thought he was this huge man. Shatner was di­fferent. I'm a massive Trekkie, so that was crazy. He's exactly what you think he is.

GQ: When did you get into Star Trek?
Mila Kunis: I got into it in my late teens—18, 19, 20. Something like that. I got into it later than most people. But let's not talk about it in the past tense. I'm still a Star Trek fan. You never stop being one. Let me give you my rundown of the series in order of most favorite to least favorite.

GQ: I definitely have my answer to this. Let's hear it.
Mila Kunis: Okay. You should know this list is an ongoing argument between Seth MacFarlane and myself. But I have it: The Next Generation; the original series; then Voyager—

GQ: Okay, you're already wrong.
Mila Kunis: Fuck. You and I are in trouble already. This always happens with Star Trek fans. After Voyager, then I have Deep Space Nine. Then last is Enterprise.

GQ: Did your Star Trek fandom extend further than just watching the show?
Mila Kunis: Uh, I went a little bit further.

GQ: How so?
Mila Kunis: I went to the Star Trek Experience in Vegas maybe five years ago. I hung out with a bunch of fake characters inside Quark's bar. [Ed note: Quark was the name of the Ferengi bartender on DS9.] There were all these actors there pretending to be the different characters from the different shows. Yes, I loved it.

GQ: Please tell me you didn't go by yourself.
Mila Kunis: No! I went with friends. I'm not that big of a loser. But I also have a signed Leonard Nimoy photo in a little frame that a girlfriend gave to me for my 21st birthday. And I've got a bunch of vintage Star Trek figurines given to me by Jason Segel. God, it's so embarrassing.

GQ: Who's the funniest person you know?
Mila Kunis: My father. He has such a dry sense of humor. He'd say something funny and then be like, "Kiddo, now's the part where you laugh."

GQ: What about someone you're not related to?
Mila Kunis: Lucille Ball is perfection—her timing and her commitment. Sarah Silverman is raunchy and brilliant, and people call her out for saying fucked-up stuff­ that they wouldn't have a problem with a man saying. How dare she? Who else? Tina Fey. She's a genius. I actually just finished reading Bossypants.

GQ: That was good, I thought.
Mila Kunis: No! Not good, brilliant. I love Tina Fey. So funny, but never shticky. She's not tripping over shit.

GQ: She's so clearly attractive and successful that I can't buy her self-deprecating stuff anymore.
Mila Kunis: I see your point. You want the attention to go to the joke itself rather than be distracted by who's delivering it. But look at Bridesmaids. That movie's full of beautiful women who are hysterical. I'm so proud of those ladies. You have no idea how hard it is for a woman in this business. A lot of people don't even think women are funny. It's fucked-up, but you have to deal with guys like that. I've learned to roll with it.

GQ: Do you have a personal experience of men in Hollywood not finding women funny?
Mila Kunis: I don't personally know of anybody, no. I could give you some bullshit excuse why I don't, but I just don't. The bottom line is if you're an attractive female in this industry, people just take you as that: attractive. People aren't getting the opportunity to move beyond being attractive. It's not only with comedy. It could be with drama or action or whatever. People are distracted by looks. It happens. I'm not saying it happened to me, but it happens.

GQ: I imagine working with people like Seth MacFarlane and Jason Segel ends up involving a lot of dick jokes.
Mila Kunis: Put me at a table with five guys making dick jokes and I will be right there with them. And, uh, I'm on Family Guy. I've been on that show for so long that I don't get grossed out by anything. But I've never had an experience where it's been a bunch of dudes making dick jokes and I was like, "Oh, there go the boys. I'm going to go get a pedicure and be back in an hour."

GQ: Is it harder to be funny when you're naked?
Mila Kunis: It's hard to be funny in general. I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me....

GQ: For one, there's never a sense in your performances that you're worried about looking ridiculous.
Mila Kunis: Because I'm not. Image is not a priority for me. I have to think about how I'm going to word this.... A lot of times, people go into this industry with a grandiose idea of fame and think the only way to achieve that is to please everybody. Unfortunately, that can lead to very self-conscious on-screen choices. This industry scrutinizes you. It'll tear you apart.

GQ: Are you single?
Mila Kunis: I am. I wouldn't dare wish myself upon anybody at this point in my life! My shooting schedule is crazy. I'm a nomad till January.

GQ: You know, I'm single too...
Mila Kunis: Oh, my God! That's an amazing face you just made!

GQ: It's my puppy-dog face.
Mila Kunis: It's fantastic! Well, hey, you never know.

GQ: Seriously?
Mila Kunis: Aww, no. I was joking....

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Mila Kunis covers FLARE + interview with Timberlake in ELLE

Interview with Justin Timberlake for ELLE Magazine

ELLE:  “Friends with benefits”: a good idea or a bad idea?
Justin Timberlake: [Smiles] It is such a good idea—until it’s a bad idea.
Mila Kunis:I concur. Ultimately, it ends when someone wants to go and get seriouswith somebody. More times than not, a person catches feelings andsomebody gets hurt.

ELLE: I think any time someone is rubbing up against your nether regions, you’re going to develop an emotional attachment.
MK: Yeah, when a female orgasms, a hormone gets released. I’ve never met a girl who can have sex without an ounce of feeling.
JT: Aha! Is that just a woman convincing herself so she feels like it’s okay to have sex with someone?
MK: Fifty-fifty.
JT: So it’s the same thing as with guys! Women are just lying to themselves.

ELLE: Playing friends with benefits, what was your costar most self-conscious about while shooting the nude scenes?
MK: [To Justin]You’ve got a fine ass. I was self-conscious about a lot of things. Show me one girl who isn’t.
JT: I’ll be honest and say, like, I’m still trying to get into the editingroom and cut down on my ass time. I’m like, “Oh my God, my mom’s gonnasee that!”

ELLE: As in the film, have either of your parents ever walked in on you while you were in flagrante delicto?
JT: I was caught one time. My mom wasn’t cool about it. I was too young to be in bed with a girl, so she was upset.
MK: I don’t think my parents think I’ve ever had sex.

ELLE: Most annoying thing your costar did on set?
JT: She would serenade me, all of us, in the makeup trailer—
MK: I can’t sing.
JT: Couldn’t carry a tune if I put it in a bucket for her. It’s awesome, though, because she does not give a shit.

ELLE: Let’s talk about how amazing your costar Woody Harrelson is playing a gay magazine photo editor.
JT:He gets the most gut-busting laughs. Everybody wants to know: “Did yousmoke pot with Woody?” We did! Will [Gluck] and I put that basketballscene in the movie just because we both love White Men Can’t Jump.

ELLE:In this film, there’s a five-date rule before you sleep with someone.What if you’re so attracted to a person that you want to end the firstdate in bed?
JT: Ooh, I would probably steer away from it. As a matter of fact, I definitely would steer away from it.

ELLE: Earth to Justin… Perfect first date?
JT: Something more simple than extravagant. Scrabble.
MK: Monopoly.
JT: Scrabble’s a good date. If she can’t spell, I don’t want to hang out with her. So that’s a good test.
MK: I can’t spell at all. [To Justin] Now we’ll never be friends.

ELLE: Strangest question a date ever asked you?
JT:I had a date ask me one time if I had found God. I’m a sick humanbeing—I mean, I answered, “Yeah, he’s in my pants.” So, the date didn’tgo that much longer because—
MK: She didn’t kneel at your altar?
JT: [Ignoring Mila] My date thought that was crass, and I thought that asking me about God was crass, so…

ELLE: Mila, who is your older-man crush?
MK: George Clooney and Johnny Depp.

ELLE: In romance, are you ruled by your head or heart?
MK: My heart. I’m trying to lead with my head. I am. I’m trying! I’m failing.
JT:She’s lying. Don’t ever change, kiddo. I’m a pushover too. I’m notreally all that smart, so I don’t really have anything to lead withexcept my heart.

ELLE: Now that you’re both single, do you find it hard to date? Must be tough being in the public eye.
MK: I haven’t dated ever.
JT: I’m not equipped to answer that right now

Kunis: 'I will never dance again' after 'Black Swan'

Mila Kunis has retired her tutu.

"I will never dance again!" the "Black Swan" star tells the March issue of W Magazine. "The first time I saw the movie, I was like it’s great that the performance has been captured on film, because I will never put on those pointe shoes again."

Kunis, 27, explains that before she was cast in the Oscar-nominated thriller, she had absolutely no ballet experience.

"I trained four months, seven days a week, five hours a day," she says. "I lost 20 pounds, I tore a ligament, I dislocated my shoulder. I have two scars on my back but it was worth every minute."

The biggest shocker? Walking around in designer footwear hadn't prepared her to be a prima ballerina.

"I was like, I wear heels; I can do this," says Kunis. "I was wrong. Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a pointe shoe!"

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Mila Kunis flaunts her style in a new spread for W magazine's March Spring Fashion issue, on stands nationwide February 25, and the 'Black Swan' star reveals she had never danced before her breakthrough ballet role.

"I had never danced in my life," says Mila. "I trained for four months, seven days a week, five hours a day. I had one day off on my birthday. I lost 20 pounds. I tore a ligament. I dislocated my shoulder. I have two scars on my back. And it was worth every minute."

Asked if she'd be willing to continue dancing, she counters, "I will never dance again... I was like, 'Well -- I wear heels; I can do this.' I was wrong: Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a pointe shoe."

The 27-year-old Ukrainian-born beauty -- who admits that she's the first person in her family to not be a college graduate -- also details her career crossroads when her contract with "That '70s Show" ended.

"I had to make a conscious decision about what I wanted to do with my life," she explains. "During the show, I had attempted to go to college, but I realized that the traffic in L.A. made it too difficult for me to go to school at 6 a.m. and be back at work at 10 a.m. I asked my parents if it was okay if I dropped out. They said okay, you can defer until after your contract with 'That '70s Show' ends. And then it ended. I realized for the first time that I couldn't imagine doing anything else. So I had to make acting a career -- to make smart choices instead of choices made for fun."

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Mila Kunis: 'I was bullied over looks'

Mila Kunis has revealed that she was bullied at school over her appearance.

The actress, who is 5ft 4in, explained that she was "funny-looking" and was always the shortest in her class.

She told OK: "I had a very funny-looking face when I was little. I had like big eyes, big lips, big ears. But when I was little I was constantly being made fun of for having big eyes and that was awful.

"I used to come home crying, 'Why do I have big eyes?' And my parents were like, 'You're crazy!'"

The 27-year-old went on to say that she has learnt from being taunted.

She added: "I've learned it wasn't a bad thing to be picked on because when you're little is seems awful, like it's the end of the world. I grew into my face."

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Mila Kunis Shows Skin in a White Hot LA Times Magazine Spread

Mila Kunis gives a serious stare and a lot of leg on the cover of this month's Los Angeles Times Magazine. She took a nod from her Black Swan character for the ballet-inspired spread, which was photographed by Ruven Afanador. Mila's currently riding the success of the film with multiple other honors, including a spot in Vanity Fair's Young Hollywood issue. Her movie with Justin Timberlake, Friends With Benefits, is up next and Mila talked to Leslie Gornstein about moving on from her TV career and making comedies, here's more:

• On her career: "I was very lucky to have a show for eight years. Now I can sit back and think about what I want."
• On making comedies: "I love doing comedies. They’re just as hard, if not harder, to make work, compared with a drama. You work 17 hours a day, and you have to try to make things different and funny and relatable onscreen all at the same time."
• Black Swan director Darren Aronofksy on working with Mila: “She’ll try anything . . . [Mila is] very, very playful—really willing to experiment."

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Mila Kunis featured on the Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue Cover

From L-R: Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, James Franco, Jennifer Lawrence, Anthony Mackie, Olivia Wilde, Jesse Eisenberg, Mila Kunis, Robert Duvall, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Garrett Hedlund, and Noomi Rapace.

For our 17th annual Hollywood Issue cover, Vanity Fair went back to the basics—no teenagers, no penguins, no (full-on) nudity, just the most exciting actors and actresses of the moment. Anchoring the front panel are Oscar co-hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco (himself a best-actor nominee), along with Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal, two of the most versatile, likable (and, yes, good-looking) leading men in Hollywood.

The two inside panels feature 11 more stars, from newcomer best-actor/actress nominees Jesse Eisenberg and Jennifer Lawrence to Noomi Rapace, whose stunning performance in the original, Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo propelled her from Stockholm to Hollywood. The cover was shot in Los Angeles and New York over the course of two days by photographer Norman Jean Roy, and, as you can see in the behind-the-scenes video below, V.F.’s West Coast editor Krista Smith managed to nab nearly all of our cover subjects for sit-down interviews on set. For even more on the cover, check out a slide show of behind-the-scenes photographs.

(Mila is briefly interviewed)


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Darren Aronofsky and Natalie Portman at the Hollywood Reporter Roundtables

Natalie Portman on CBS