Women's Wear Daily: Factory Girl - Mila Kunis

By Emily Holt
Women's Wear Daily
Excerpt
August 31, 2009

In "Extract," Mike Judge's latest film about life as a worker bee, Mila Kunis plays sexy scam artist Cindy, who has her sights set on factory boss Joel (Jason Bateman). But while Cindy is often manipulative, using her god-given assets to get what she wants, Kunis' own success in film and television wasn't quite as calculated. Born in Kiev, she began acting at age nine after her family moved to the United States, and at 14 she landed a role in the ensemble cast of the hit "That 70's Show." "It happened very organically and all very accidentally," says the 26-year-old.

Talk about happy accidents. Up next, Kunis will appear in "The Book of Eli" opposite Denzel Washington, and this fall she starts production on "Black Swan," in which she and Natalie Portman play rival ballerinas. To prepare, Kunis has been spending four hours a day, seven days a week in dance classes. "It is one of the toughest things I've ever done in my life," she says. "My entire body hurts. My muscle, my bone, everything."

From her hair and makeup chair in Los Angeles, just before a premiere of "Extract," Kunis chatted with WWD...

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