Archives for September 2009

Actress Mila Kunis arrives in style on the red carpet at the 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on September 20, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.

NBC's "30 Rock" was honored for the third time as best comedy series, while star Alec Baldwin won his second award as best comedy actor. AMC's "Mad Men," meanwhile, won best drama at the ceremony, which was hosted by "How I Met Your Mother Star" Neil Patrick Harris.

If you were at the Edwards Grand Palace Stadium for the 7:05 p.m. Friday showing of Mike Judge's new film Extract, you were probably wondering about all the inappropriate applause at the beginning of the show. The usher with the airplane light couldn't figure it out either.

Only Lidia Porto and her special guests had the answer. Porto, a professional actress that calls Houston home, plays the role of Gabriella, one of the main factory yokels.

"We were going to clap each time she was on screen, but when she appeared three times in the first ten minutes of the film, we realized her character wasn't just a bit part," said Bryan Parras, one of the fans at the not-so-private screening.

This is Porto's second appearance in a Mike Judge film. "I had already done a small part in Idiocracy, so Mike Judge asked for me to audition for Gabriella," Porto said. (In case you're wondering, she played the female reporter in Idiocracy.)

Watching the film you can't help but make the connections to Houston, Austin and Texas in general, but Extract was filmed at a water-bottling plant in Los Angeles. Porto spent two weeks last October hanging around the set with actors Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis (That 70's Show), and workers from the bottling company.

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American actress Mila Kunis has revealed that she is going through a rigorous training regime to prepare herself for a role in the upcoming thriller ‘Black Swan’. Kunis, 26, who reportedly engages in a racy girl-on-girl love scene with actress Natalie Portman, refused to say much about the story of the movie, and only revealed what she has been doing so far to perfect her role.

“I’m not allowed to talk about the script yet, but I’m excited to work with Natalie. I’ve known her for some time,” Fox News quoted her as saying. “I’ve been studying for the past month, 7 days a week, 4-5 hours a day of doing ballet cardio and pilates and I have 2 more months before choreography begins. This ballet I’m doing you can’t fake it. “Your body has to be structured differently, your hips have to be turned out, your shoulders have to be turned in, everything in your body is not natural, so I’m learning everyday,” she added.

Actresses Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis are said to have put in their best effort for a sizzling girl-on-girl action in a new movie. Portman, 28, and Kunis, 26, both play rival ballet stars in the spine-chiller movie ‘Black Swan’.

"There is an angry, aggressive sex scene in the movie. It’s pretty raunchy, both girls give it their all," the Daily Star quoted an insider as revealing. Meanwhile, Portman is all set to produce high school comedy ‘Booksmart’ for Fox.

Mila Kunis has reportedly insisted that she is going to hell. The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star has said that she fears that her soul will not be saved because of her dark sense of humour.

Kunis told Details magazine: "I'm going to hell so fast. Like, on an escalator. It's going to be a straight shot. There is not even going to be a stop in limbo. The 26-year-old actress, who voices the character Meg Griffin in the US animated sitcom Family Guy, has admitted that she enjoys the show's cynical take on popular culture.

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Mila Kunis has played the dizzy girl, the shallow girl and even, after she graduated from “That ’70s Show,” the girl who totes a gun.

But she has never played “the bad girl.”

“You get to lose all your inhibitions and get away with things you’d never get away with in real life when you play ‘the bad girl,’ ” she says with a giggle.

She’s talking about her role in the new Mike Judge comedy “Extract,” which opened Friday. Her character, Cindy, is a thief who doesn’t set events in motion but amplifies them in this farce about a hapless flavor-extract bottler (Jason Bateman) trying to extract himself from predicaments caused by his idiot employees, friend, wife and neighbor.

“Cindy is a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar, but I hope that deep down, she knows better,” Kunis says.

Kunis has been in the pop-culture spotlight so long that it’s shocking to remember that she’s only 26.

It helps to remember this bit of Mila lore: She was cast on “That ’70s Show” when she was just a babe of 14, and grew up and learned to act on the series. But the Ukrainian-born brunette didn’t really blossom until Judd Apatow Inc. cast her as Rachel, the too sympathetic, too sexy shoulder for Jason Segel to cry on when he was “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

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We're definitely excited for the upcoming Natalie Portman/Mila Kunis project Black Swan. The movie, which is being directed by The Wrestler's Darren Aranofsky, focuses on a dancer with a New York ballet troupe, and the in-fighting and back-stabbing over the lead role in an upcoming production of Swan Lake.

But forget about the plot. Allegedly, Portman and Kunis are going to have some "Aggressive, Angry Sex" in the film. Yes, you're reading that right.

In an interview last week for the opening of her new film Extract, Kunis remained mum on the details, but did not deny that the scene would be happening. "I’m not allowed to talk about the script yet, but I’m excited to work with Natalie. I’ve known her for some time," she said.

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When Mila Kunis was on “That 70’s Show”, I never thought she’d make the transition to movie star. But over the past few years, that’s exactly what she’s done with starring roles in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”, “Max Payne”, “The Book of Eli”, and writer-director Mike Judge’s new film “Extract”. In “Extract”, Mila plays the femme fatale role, and she’s great.

Anyway, I recently participated in a roundtable interview with Mila and she talked about her career, making “Extract”, “Family Guy”, “Black Swan”, Comic-Con, “Date Night”, college, and a lot more. It’s a great interview so take a look. And remember, “Extract” opens this weekend and you all need to go see it!

As usual, you can either read the transcript below or listen to the audio of the roundtable interview by clicking here. Finally, for a taste of the awesomeness that is “Extract”, click here to watch some clips.

Question: You were in the sequel to ‘American Psycho’.

Kunis: Oh my God, you’re the third person with that question today. Do we have to?

People look at you and see a real bad person there, right?

Kunis: It’s two movies in the seventeen year long career. It’s not that bad.

I think Jackie -

Kunis: She never stole. She was just slightly self-obsessed.

Ringo used to say, ‘It’s just my face -’

Kunis: Are you trying to say that I can be a pathological liar who’s also a kleptomaniac?

Someone might think so. They cast you. I didn’t.

Kunis: Possibly? You know what, I don’t know. I thought the script was really funny. I thought the character was really funny. It’s very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that’s why I keep getting hired.

Did you do any research?

Kunis: Stealing things?

Winona Ryder style.

Kunis: I knew that’s where you were going to go with this one. I did not do any research. Nope, I didn’t feel like I needed to go method for this one because I’d be in jail and then Nancy Ryder would kill me.

Do you think this is where Jackie could’ve ended up if she didn’t have a good family?

Kunis: Jackie didn’t have a good family. Did you ever watch the show? Her mom was in Cancun. Her dad was in jail.

They had money.

Kunis: That does not constitute a good family, having money. If Jackie was poor - here’s the difference; I’m not quite sure that Jackie would’ve ever been smart enough to get away. I think she would’ve been caught much earlier in her life. I think that Cindy has the tendency to be a couple of steps ahead and so she’s able to kind of keep going with this process of manipulating people. I think that Jackie - I don’t know, it’s hard to say - was every the sharpest tool in the shed.

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In Extract, Mila Kunis plays one of those girls who just has men wrapped around her finger. Cindy is a con artist who shoplifts, resells her stolen merchandise, tempts men to cheat and gets her hooks into settlement money from an industrial accident. Yet somehow you’ve got to love her.

Mila Kunis Talks Making Extract
“You really, I think, just hope that it makes sense in the end,” Kunis said. “It’s one of those things where you have to play her very realistic and not judge her by her actions but just kind of accept them for what they are. Yu hope that that kind of translates on screen, because if you start judging her for what she’s doing and being like, ‘Oh, I can’t believe she’s stealing a guitar,’ it’s going to come across as a little negative. But, if you just kind of go, ‘Well, girl’s gotta do what she’s gotta do,’ it kind of comes across a little naïve in a sense so it’s a little more accepting.

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Three-plus years after wrapping That ’70s Show, Mila Kunis is in the last place she expected to be, career-wise working. She’s got three movies wrapped, including the Mike Judge workplace comedy Extract, which opens this Friday, the post-Armageddon movie The Book Of Eli with Denzel Washington, and the Tina Fey/Steve Carell comedy Date Night. She’s also soon to start work on the psychological drama Black Swan by director Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler), in which she and Natalie Portman play ballet dancers with a dark relationship.

Add on her apparent job-for-life as the voice of daughter Meg in Family Guy, and she’s clearly on a roll. (At the recent Comic-Con in San Diego, there was even a Mila Kunis lookalike contest an event the actress found disturbing when her brother “hit on” a contestant).

“The fact is I wanted to quit the industry by the time I was 18,” says Kunis, who started playing teen diva Jackie Burkhart at 15. “My plan was I was going to finish That ’70s Show, finish my contract off and go to college, because I was pretty convinced that, doing a show for all those years, I would be pretty pigeonholed into something I didn’t want to be a part of anymore.”

Unfortunately, college didn’t work out much better. “I failed miserably,” she says. “I took two classes at UCLA and then I transferred to Loyola Marymount, and that became my college although I’m pretty damn sure I never went to a class at Loyola. I actually was a pretty good student, but I didn’t know what I wanted to study. I finally went to my parents and said, ‘Y’know what? I do love what I do.

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