Bad Moms star Kathryn Hahn recently interview Bad Moms star Mila Kunis for Net-a-Porter's The Edit. Here are some highlights from their conversation:
KH: You don’t suffer fools, and you’ve been in this business a very long time.
MK: I have a really normal family. I think the reason I didn’t come out fucked-up is because my family’s self-worth never relied upon me. So many times, when kids grow up in this industry, they feel the burden of their family, which is what makes you spiral. There’s too much pressure, and as a kid you’re physically incapable of handling it. I can barely handle pressure now – can you imagine [aged] 12?
KH: When did you start acting?
MK: From [age] nine. I did Days of Our Lives, Baywatch... [Hahn laughs] You would die. I was on Baywatch twice – two different characters. Once I was blind. I got lost in a fire and had to be saved.
KH: By Hasselhoff?
MK: No, by his son.
...KH: Have you been back [to the Ukraine, since you moved here in 1991 when you were 7]?
MK: Two months ago, for the first time. We were shooting The Spy Who Dumped Me [co-starring Kate McKinnon] in Budapest, which is near Ukraine, so Ashton [Kutcher, Kunis’ husband] said, ‘On your birthday, let’s go.’ But I was never going to go without my parents. So my parents came to Budapest, then onto Ukraine, and Ashton and I went for one day. It was trippy. There’s a part of you that wants to feel something towards [the place]. I had nothing. We landed and Ashton was like, ‘No?’ [and I was like], ‘Yeah, nothing. I got nothing for you, babe.’ We went to our [old] house and I knocked on the door because we really wanted to look inside. And [the owner] was like, ‘No!’ She did not care. I said, ‘I used to live here when I was little, my parents are here…’ She wouldn’t even open the door. The whole experience was very humbling.
KH: Where’s home for you?
MK: Where my family is – LA.
KH: Having confidence as a woman is hard. There’s all this shit we have to go through. I’m more confident when I’m working.
MK: Me too [both laugh]. I’m like [screams]: ‘I got a job!’ I am confident, but I’m constantly learning. When I was 19, I made a conscious decision to surround myself with people [who are] better and smarter than I am. Prior to that point, any job that came my way, I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll do this piece of s***! Who cares, acting’s fun.’ When I decided it was going to be my career, I reined everything in: ‘No, I don’t want to do this movie – it’s great on paper, but I’m gonna hold out.’ It’s all false bravado; internally, I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m fucking up!’
KH: You have such a handle on the business side of things.
MK: Honestly, full disclosure, when I started dating Ashton, I was like, ‘I don’t want to know [about the] business side, it makes me so uncomfortable.’ And he said, ‘Right, stop, get on the call.’ And then I started educating myself, getting the language right. I would ask him questions, Googled lots of things, and now I know what everybody’s doing, I know what I can do, I know what I can ask for. I am way more involved than I was five years ago.
Read the full interview at Net-a-Porter.
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