Archives for February 2010

Stepping out for a weekend awards show,  Mila Kunis added a little sexiness to the 2010 Writers Guild Awards’ West Coast ceremony in Los Angeles on Saturday. Held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel, the “Book of Eli” actress joined fellow guests at the annual event including David Henrie, Jason Segel and Judd Apatow.

The show was hosted by Emmy winner Seth MacFarlane, who told press before taking the stage, “I’m honored and humbled to be chosen as host of the WGAW awards. I look forward to catching up with my strike buddies from 2007, and making some new strike buddies for 2011.”With Miss Kunis joining Mr MacFarlane onstage during the ceremony, the honorees receiving lifetime achievement awards included Barry Levinson and Larry David.

The actress has a steamy scene with Kunis in the supernatural thriller and admits she struggled to overcome her nerves before locking lips with another woman, reports fashion.ie. "I was terrified. At the moment I lived in a state of inner terror," she said. Portman, who previously shot a nude scene for short film "Hotel Chevalier", is also worried the lesbian sequence may overshadow the plot of the film.

"Nudity is something absolutely natural and I'm not prudish but in a film it can be distracting. Doing 'Black Swan' I couldn't say no. The project is a huge opportunity for me to show a new me. I can't always play the nice mothers. My other problem is that single pictures are being taken out of context and put on the internet," she said. Black Swan" is set in the highly competitive world of New York ballet and follows Portman's veteran ballerina character who finds herself locked in direct competition with a mysterious rival dancer.

Hugh Laurie  is reportedly in discussions to play the lead role in Oranges, a dark dramatic comedy about an older man who has an affair with the daughter of a family friend.

Also said to be circling the project, according to The Los Angeles Times' 24 Frames blog, are Leighton Meester and Mila Kunis. If Meester were to play Laurie's lover, it would be a fitting denouement to a role she had on an early episode of House, wherein she played a girl obsessed with Laurie's curmudgeon/genius diagnostician.

24 Frames notes that the Oranges script, by Jay Reiss and Ian Helfer, landed at No. 2 on the Black List back in 2008. Produced by Anthony Bregman, the film is being financed by Glen Basner's Film Nation and Leslie Urdang's Olympus Pictures.

Laurie, little known to mass US audiences before becoming Dr. Gregory House on the Fox TV show, has had several supporting film roles and, contrary to the LAT blog's contention that he has never carried a film, starred in UK cult favorite Maybe Baby opposite Joely Richardson in 2000 (OK, it wasn’t a “Hollywood” film…). That project was written and directed by Ben Elton (with whom Laurie worked back in the Blackadder days) with some scenes directed by Laurie himself. Meanwhile, both Meester and Kunis appear opposite each other in the upcoming comedy Date Night, which stars Steve Carell and Tina Fey.

Following our extremely popular contest, 'HD Hottie Hysteria,' we've started a new feature in which we will highlight a top female star every day. The gorgeous female will come from a program that can be seen in gorgeous high-def that very day. Today's 'HD Hottie' is Mila Kunis, who stars today in high-def in Max Payne on HBO 2 at 4:30 p.m. ET.

The 26-year-old actress, who was born in the Soviet Union, moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was 8. She got her first big break when she was cast in the sitcom That 70s Show at the age of 14, although the producers thought she was 18. The sitcom lasted eight years. Mila has since starred in several movies including Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Over It and Max Payne. Her most recent film is The Book of Eli, which stars Denzel Washington, and opened in theaters last month.

Mila Kunis has heaped praise on her mother for forcing her to work in a drugstore as a teen - even after she had landed her big break on That '70Sshow. The actress has credited her parents, who immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine when Kunis was a child, with helping her remain humble at the start of her career by encouraging her to work at a store near their California home.

She tells FoxNews.com, "My mother made me work at Rite-Aid, because my parents work full-time. I worked at 70's on Laurel and Ventura and I couldn't drive because I wasn't sixteen yet, so my mother would come on her lunch break and pick me up from work. "But she didn't have time to drop me off back home, so I would have to go to work with her, and what did I do for six hours? My mother would putme behind the photo or ice cream counter and made me work.