Mila Kunis

2022 - 10 - 7

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Luckiest Girl Alive review – Mila Kunis runs out of luck in flat Netflix ... (The Guardian)

A hollow adaptation of Jessica Knoll's 2015 novel centers on a woman whose perfect life is corroded by past trauma.

Aurelia is impressive as a teenager reeling from shame and bristling at pressure to report from her English teacher (Scoot McNairy) and bullied friends Arthur (Thomas Barbusca) and Ben (David Webster). The young TiffAni (Chiara Aurelia) is a nondescript teen: interested in English, embarrassed by her gauche, middle-class mother (Connie Britton), down to party. The cracks appear from the start – shopping with Luke for wedding registry knives, Ani imagines them dripping in blood – and widen when a documentarian approaches her to tell her side of a tragic story. [Where the Crawdads Sing](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jul/12/where-the-crawdads-sing-review-daisy-edgar-jones), another adaptation of a literary smash about a jagged female protagonist tapped by Reese Witherspoon. Many of the movies’ problems are book problems, made worse, in the case of Luckiest Girl Alive, by decisions to sand down the novel’s more uncomfortable psychology and graft the ending on to the #MeToo movement. It’s of the time for a mid-2010s literary hit, but also seems to anticipate the 2022

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'Luckiest Girl Alive' stars Mila Kunis in a messy adaptation of Jessica ... (CNN)

Kunis plays Ani FaNelli, a have-it-all magazine journalist close to landing her dream job at the New York Times and marrying her wealthy boyfriend Luke (Finn ...

But “Luckiest Girl Alive” falls short of its promise, a reminder that, however ironic the title is intended to be, fortune tends to favor the bold. As constructed, unfortunately, in an adaptation of the book written by its author, Jessica Knoll, and directed by Mike Barker, “Luckiest Girl Alive” feels as if it’s juggling too many plates – joining the story in progress and laboring to connect the mass shooting to Ani’s story in a way that muddles the mystery. [Mila Kunis](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/world/mila-kunis-stand-with-ukraine-cnnheroes/index.html) produces and stars in this #MeToo-tinged story, which awkwardly incorporates a mass school shooting as well as gender and class politics into what becomes an ungainly mix of hot-button issues in one dramatic package.

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Mila Kunis addresses infamous rumor (that she started) about her ... (The A.V. Club)

Mila Kunis sets the record straight about her story of lying about her age to book That '70s Show.

I had a solid ego, man, I thought I was so cool. But I don’t know if it was intimidating in the sense of like, I didn’t know who I was or lost sense of myself, but I must have been like, ‘Wow, these kids are all so cool and they’re so much older than I am and they’re so much cooler than I am,’” she adds. “I told them I was gonna be 18, which ... And in my contract I had to put an asterisk, and be like, ‘Studio teacher.’ And they’re like, ‘What do you mean?’ And I was like, ‘Oh, P.S. “But at that point, if you talked to [series creators] Bonnie and Terry Turner, they were so sweet, they were like, ‘Well, we loved you at that point, so what did we care?’” Kunis now tells Vanity Fair. “However, by the time I went to what was then, like, producers, network call, you have to sign a contract before you get the job.

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Mila Kunis Confirms She Lied About Her Age to Land 'That '70s ... (Variety)

Mila Kunis was 14 years old when she auditioned for a role that required her to be at least 18 years old.

“However, by the time I went to what was then a producer’s network call…you have to sign a contract before you get the job and in my contract I had to put an asterisk for ‘studio teacher,'” she continued. “I’d like to make it very clear now that I did lie. [Mila Kunis](https://variety.com/t/mila-kunis/) confirmed to Vanity Fair a longstanding rumor about how she landed her breakout role as Jackie Burkhart on “That ’70s Show” after lying about her age.

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From First Kiss to First Child — The True Love Story Between 'That ... (Parade Magazine)

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher starred as an on-again-off-again couple on 'That '70s Show' for years. However, years after the show ended, they fell in love ...

[Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher have two children](https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/mila-kunis-and-ashton-kutcher-kids-a-guide-to-their-children/) together: daughter Wyatt, born in 2014, and son Dimitri, born in 2016. [They have been extremely outspoken](https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/pictures/mila-kunis-and-ashton-kutchers-relatable-parenting-quotes/#:%7e:text=Bauer%2DGriffin%2FShutterstock-,October%202021,Push%20her%20back%20next%20time.) about the joys and struggles that come with parenting. [Mila Kunis was born](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005109/) on [August](https://parade.com/1400382/michelleparkerton/august-holidays-observances/) 14, 1983, making her 39. [when Mila Kunis was cast](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/did-ashton-kutcher-and-mila-kunis-date-while-on-that-70s-show.html/) in That ‘70s Show, she was just 14 years old. [Ashton Kutcher has famously entered](https://parade.com/culture/ashton-kutcher-net-worth) into the world of investing—with great success! [Justin Timberlake in 2011’s Friends With Benefits](https://parade.com/96768/marymargaret/justin-timberlake-friends-with-benefits/), Kutcher [starring with Natalie Portman in 2011’s No Strings Attached](https://parade.com/33986/parade/ashton-kutcher-no-strings-attached-sex-scene/). As fate would have it, Kutcher and Kunis were both newly single, [they were then reunited](https://people.com/tv/ashton-kutcher-mila-kunis-relationship-timeline/) at the Golden Globes in early 2012. [their fair share of divorce rumors](https://parade.com/893915/maggie-parker/mila-kunis-and-ashton-kutcher-squash-rumors-about-their-divorce-with-hilarious-video-its-over-between-us-what-are-we-gonna-do/), Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are very much still together. [Kunis explained](https://people.com/movies/mila-kunis-ashton-kutcher-hook-up-before-serious/), “I did a movie called Friends With Benefits. [Kunis with Macaulay Culkin](https://parade.com/27898/jeannewolf/0108-mila-kunis-book-of-eli/) from 2002 to 2011 and [Kutcher with Demi Moore](https://parade.com/922679/jessicasager/demi-moore-blamed-herself-for-miscarriage-struggled-with-fertility-during-marriage-to-ashton-kutcher/) from 2003 to 2011 (though their divorce was not finalized until 2013). [he married her](https://people.com/tv/ashton-kutcher-mila-kunis-relationship-timeline/)! Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher initially met in 1998 when they were cast as love interests on That ‘70s Show.

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How Are 'Bling Empire's' Christine Chiu and Mila Kunis Friends, and ... (Yahoo Lifestyle)

Bling Empire season three sees actress Mila Kunis making a surprise appearance on the show. But how are Mila and Christine Chiu friends?

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'Luckiest Girl Alive' Review: Mila Kunis Delivers a Career-Best ... (Collider.com)

If you finish watching Netflix's Luckiest Girl Alive without feeling as angry as Ani, you didn't watch it right.

It offers a career-best performance from Mila Kunis and isn’t afraid to throw salt in two giant wounds that can’t and won’t heal until we treat them with the seriousness they demand. Ultimately, the movie is a series of punches to the gut, most of which you never see coming. You never know what she’s going to do or say, and once the movie starts wrapping up and makes the core of her behavior clear, you fully understand and relate to the character. On the other hand, men get the benefit of the doubt, excuses are handed to them on a silver platter, and their entire existence is perceived as nuanced – and you definitely can’t pin them to a single mistake in life, because they are much more than that. Not only is this explicitly stated in a flashback by one of Ani’s teachers, but you constantly hear Ani's voiceover contradicting a lot of what she does and says onscreen. Based on a New York Times best-selling novel by author Jessica Knoll (who also pens the script), Luckiest Girl Alive tells the story of a magazine writer who’s aiming to make it to the top rankings of the writing world.

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Mila Kunis confirms longstanding That '70s Show rumour: 'I'd like to ... (Yahoo Singapore News)

The now-39-year-old actor first landed the part of spoiled teenager Jackie Burkhart on the eight-season sitcom when she was 14. However, as the directors were ...

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Mila Kunis: 'Standing ovation at Oscars for Will Smith shocking and ... (Black Hills Pioneer)

Mila Kunis says it was “shocking” and “insane” Will Smith received a standing ovation when he picked up his best actor Oscar after he attacked Chris Rock.

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'Luckiest Girl Alive 2'? Mila Kunis on Possibility of Sequel: 'I Hope My ... (Yahoo Entertainment)

Author/screenwriter Jessica Knoll also tells PEOPLE her thoughts on continuing the Luckiest Girl Alive story beyond the new Netflix movie.

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Mila Kunis confirms longstanding That '70s Show rumour: 'I'd like to ... (Yahoo)

The now-39-year-old actor first landed the part of spoiled teenager Jackie Burkhart on the eight-season sitcom when she was 14. However, as the directors were ...

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Mila Kunis Shared a Candid Explanation For Why She Didn't Give ... (Yahoo Lifestyle)

It's seven months later and we are still talking about the slap heard around the world from the Oscars in March. Will Smith's reaction to Chris Rock's joke ...

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Mila Kunis Lied About Her Age To Bag 'That '70s Show' (Outlook India)

'Black Swan' star Mila Kunis has confirmed a longstanding rumour about how she landed her breakout role as Jackie Burkhart on 'That '70s Show'.

The trajectory of my career could've gone any which way but the set was cool." The actress revealed to Vanity Fair that in order to bag the role, she lied about her age. I did."

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Mila Kunis: 'Standing ovation at Oscars for Will Smith shocking and ... (Manhattan Mercury)

Mila Kunis says it was “shocking” and “insane” Will Smith received a standing ovation when he picked up his best actor Oscar after he attacked Chris Rock.

Will has repeatedly apologised for slapping Chris on stage in March and reached out to the comic to get in touch, admitting his attack was “unacceptable” and “inexcusable”. Apple plans to release the Smith-led Civil War drama on its streaming service in December, less than a year after Will stormed the stage to slap Chris over a joke about the shaven head being sported at the ceremony by his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, 51, who suffers from alopecia – before weeping after the assault on stage when picking up his best actor trophy for his performance in ‘King Richard’. Mila Kunis says it was “shocking” and “insane” Will Smith received a standing ovation when he picked up his best actor Oscar after he attacked Chris Rock.

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Luckiest Girl Alive review: Mila Kunis impresses in bleak, brutal ... (Firstpost)

The cast redeems a film that starts off on an ambitious high but ends in a mire of mediocrity.

It’s a cast that redeems a film which starts off on an ambitious high but ends in a mire of mediocrity. We examine the concept of afternoon tea and its universal appeal as a meal. The screenplay uses the tragic school incident as a basis to zero in on everything that happens in the film. Without giving away spoilers, if the film’s half-baked finale reduces Ani to a mere plastic symbol of all that the story represents, the fact is ironic because Mila Kunis strives to rise above the script material at hand. The film underwhelms with the way it leads up to its closure. The storytelling, though, is interesting in the way it lets Ani play the field. Kunis as Ani is constantly in voiceover mode, in order to reveal everything from her obvious trust issues to her habit of indulging in the occasional white lie. Soliloquies work fine for a novel when it comes to securing an emotional bond between characters and the reader. Knoll draws from her real-life stint as a former editor of Cosmopolitan to imagine Ani as a senior editor at a fashion glossy called The Women’s Bible. A film of this genre would be expected to have a crisp narrative while unfolding the suspense and driving home the deeper context of its story. The constantly shifting of the story between present day and flashback helps build curiosity up to a point, about what exactly happened in high school all those years ago. He is out to make a film on a shocking incident that took place in the posh private high school that Ani attended as a teenager, which brings back memories of a chain of horrifying incidents.

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Mila Kunis brands standing ovation for Will Smith after Chris Rock ... (Evening Standard)

The Luckiest Girl In The World star attended this year's Academy Awards with husband Ashton Kutcher and said she was 'shocked' that people stood for Smith ...

My behaviour was unacceptable and I am here whenever you are ready to talk.” [C Magazine](https://magazinec.com/style/mila-kunis-california-dream-world/): "The idea of leading by example only makes sense when you actually have someone to lead. “And I’m not going to try and unpack all of that right now, but I can say to all of you that there is no part of me that thinks that was the right way to behave in that moment. Concluding the video, Smith said he was “deeply remorseful and I’m trying to be remorseful without being ashamed of myself”. He added: “I spent the last three months replaying and understanding the nuances and complexities of what happened in that moment. [Ashton Kutcher](/topic/ashton-kutcher), 44, attended the [Academy Awards](/topic/academy-awards) in March and witnessed Smith slap [Chris Rock](/topic/chris-rock) over a joke about his wife [Jada Pinkett Smith](/topic/jada-pinkett-smith).

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Mila Kunis admits to lying about age to bag 'That '70s Show' (Gulf News)

Actress was younger than 18 years old at the time.

The trajectory of my career could’ve gone any which way but the set was cool.” The actress revealed to Vanity Fair that in order to bag the role, she lied about her age. “I’d like to make it very clear now that I did lie.

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Luckiest Girl Alive movie review: Mila Kunis expertly unravels the ... (CNBCTV18)

Based on Jessica Knoll's 2015 novel of the same name, Luckiest Girl Alive gives a refreshing voice to a lot of what usually goes unsaid—bullying, ...

Luckiest Girl Alive does too and it does more; it leaves you with a haunting William Faulkner quote: “The past is never dead. Based on Jessica Knoll’s 2015 novel of the same name which was also an NYT bestseller, Luckiest Girl Alive amplifies a lot of what usually remains unsaid—bullying, gun violence in American schools, sexual assault, rape, the stigma around victimhood, and the discrimination and humiliation that people from low-income backgrounds suffer. Watch out for the scene when the young Ani apologetically tells her boyfriend that she thinks she was raped. Mila Kunis makes Ani her own with care and nuance, making you push back, gasp for breath, and pass a sly smile when she does. She lives in New York City, is gearing up for a posh wedding, and is about to be offered the position of senior editor at the New York Times Magazine. Ani Fanelli is a 28-year-old senior editor at The Women’s Bible, a magazine for men’s pleasure.

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