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 ...is so hardcore.
Last time we saw Mila Kunis on-screen, she was behaving badly in Extract, but this time around, the 26-year-old is mending her ways. This month, the Ukraine-born Mila stars alongside Denzel Washington in The Book Of Eli, the newest action thriller set in post-apocalyptic America. Her character, Solara, is tapped to betray Eli, but ultimately, she joins forces with him in his quest to save humanity. During her conversation with INsite, though, Mila shared thoughts on less pressing matters, such as whether pretty girls get special privileges and the unfortunate act of “nerding out.”
She wouldn’t giving us the skinny on her reportedly steamy kissing scene with Natalie Portman in the upcoming Black Swan, but she did fess up about getting it on with James Franco during her stripper cameo in Date Night.
By Prairie Miller
Hey Mila! Do you get to play a badass in The Book Of Eli or what?!
I do! In The Book of Eli, my character is pretty awesome, I have to say. She starts off very young, very naive and very sheltered, but also very hungry to learn about life.
What can I say? She gets inspired by Denzel Washington's character, and goes on this journey with him throughout the film. It takes place in maybe four or five days. But she was a beautiful, beautiful woman to play.
Is Solara anything like the lady hitman you played in Max Payne, alongside Mark Wahlberg?
What you see is what you get. In The Book of Eli, it's a very real character that has to fight to survive, versus just being placed in front of you as this one person. So you get to see her grow. It was a great, great part.
What sort of cool action do you get to do?
OK, I get to … I don't even know what I can say. I get to flip a car. I get to throw a grenade into a convoy of cars and explode them. And then I get to do other fun things that I can't talk about!
What can you talk about?
Gary Oldman plays my stepfather, and uses me to seduce Denzel's character. In return, I become infatuated by him and his belief, and the man that he is, because he's not abusive, and he's not a man of the world.
Then I decide to escape and follow him, and I guess maybe become his people, [I] just want to follow him on his journey, and be like him and be inspired by him, and escape from this small town. I gotta tell you, the movie is really, really cool.
How do you go about getting into character for your movies?
You don't; you just hope that it makes sense in the end, and you hope that kind of translates on screen. But if you just go, “Well, a girl's gotta do what she's gotta do,” it kind of comes across.
Do you find it to be true that pretty girls can live by different rules and get away with more?
Personally, no. I do think that there are women out there, like you look at L.A.—no one's really from L.A. All the pretty people from [around] the world all come to L.A., so L.A.'s just filled with beautiful women.
But I feel like there're two groups of them. You have one that solely relies on their looks, and that's fine. If that's what they have to do to get through life, so be it. And then you have the beautiful women who actually have something else to offer the world, and are constantly fighting against the stereotype.
So where do you fit in?
Well, I do not look like this dressed up every day. I, in fact, very rarely look like this. So no, I can't even get out of a parking ticket! And I don't exude.
Exude?
I think there are certain actresses, absolutely, that exude a certain amount of sexuality, or whatever it may be that men just completely fumble over. I do not feel that I'm that person, personally.
Any chance you'd do another moody horror flick like American Psycho 2
I hate you for bringing that up, I hate you!
But it was brilliant; you were brilliant.
Do you want to be my new best friend? Brilliant? Listen, just let it go. Let's not talk about American Psycho 2.
Okay, is there any other psychological thriller on your plate anytime soon?
Yeah, I'm doing one called Black Swan, which is by Darren Aronofsky with Natalie Portman. Yeah, so it's a little bit better than American Psycho 2. Just a little bit!
The Internet is buzzing about your sex scene with Natalie Portman in Black Swan. Is it that big a deal, or are you all just into adding fuel to the fire?
I will not be adding any fuel to this fire, let me tell you that much! Here's the truth, and this is the honest truth, the script is so under lock and key, completely under lock and key. I have no idea how anybody could have read it at all. It's not possible.
There's, like, maybe about four copies total. So I'm not going to say it's not true, and I'm not going to say it is true. Because I just can't talk about. But it's very bizarre how anything would even get out, because it's such a secret script.
What about Date Night, you don't make out with Tina Fey do you?
Ha! I do not make out with Tina Fey. I make out with James Franco! He plays my pimp. I play a stripper.
How do you train for stripping?
This, I'll answer … I do no stripping in this movie! It's a cameo, so we worked for maybe three days. I'm a stripper, but in my off time. When you meet me I'm home, relaxing.
So are you a fan-girl for anyone?
A lot of people. I nerd out a lot. I have a bad tendency to be like, “I'm so cool.” And then when I meet them, I'm like, “Oh my god.” It happens all the time, in the most random places.
Like when?
I was at a restaurant in New York City, like a hole in the wall. And there was a contestant from Project Runway. Just a contestant that I personally felt should have won. It was maybe a year ago or two years ago.
He was eating there, having his lunch, totally fine. I'm with my group of friends, and I couldn't stop staring at him. I was like, “That's the guy, that's the guy!”
So I was like, I'm going to play it cool. It's no big deal. So I finished eating, and I was planning on walking away. Like I got dressed to just walk away, and something came over me. And I just turned around and, like, it was diarrhea of the mouth!
I was like, “Oh my god, I totally think you should've won! I'm such a fan.”
And he was just so like, “Whoa, this girl's crazy!” But I completely nerded out on him, like there was no tomorrow. I mean, he wasn't like a director or an actor, but I was on him, absolutely.
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