Mila Speaks Out

Straight-talking, funny and a shrewd businesswoman… Mila Kunis, who rarely gives interviews, opens up to her friend, Saturday Night Live’s Kate McKinnon

- Kate McKinnon

Mila Kunis is funny. That much we know.

And she’s been proving it since she was just 14 years old on That ’70s Show. Shortly after came the voice of Family Guy’s Meg, and then there’s the vast back catalogue of films, too. And Google any of the few TV interviews she’s done and you won’t be disappointed. Her chat with Radio 1’s Chris Stark in 2013 went viral after they ditched the traditional questions and talked about drinking “lad bombs” and “dropping trou”, with Kunis having to be asked by the PR to revert to discussing the film she was promoting.

What few people realise is that there is a more serious side to her, too, because Kunis is also an astute businesswoman. Since starting a family with her That ’70s Show co-star Ashton Kutcher (they have two children together), she has cut back on her acting roles and has instead been focusing on her TV company, Orchard Farm Productions, which she set up in 2014. She also speaks fluent Russian (she was born in Ukraine) and regularly has Family Guy fans shouting, “Shut up, Meg!” at her in the street. With this in mind, we asked Kate McKinnon, her co-star in new film project The Spy Who Dumped Me (another funny), to grill Kunis, 34, on everything we don’t know about her – and there is a lot…

KM: You’re very close to your family. How did they influence who you are today?

MK: My parents allowed me to be very independent and a free thinker, whether they agreed with my choices or not. I never had a curfew, and I never broke many rules. I was in bed by 9pm. I think my parents were like, “Well, she’s not an idiot.”