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Mila Kunis is Mona Sax in Max Payne

Mila Kunis is Mona Sax in Max Payne

Kunis talks about her first ass kicking role.

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Mila Kunis already melted hearts as the funny cutie in That '70s Show and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Now she shows she can be the tough girl too. In Max Payne, she plays Mona Sax, an assassin who thinks Max killed her sister. When she finds out the truth, they team up to take down the real bad guys.
Crave Online: For your first kick butt action role, did you enjoy the clothes, the guns and the training?

Mila Kunis: I didn’t enjoy the clothes very much. I enjoyed the guns and I enjoyed the training a lot. I had weapons safety and then John [Moore] for some reason made me learn how to take an MK5H apart and put it back together blindfolded. I really don’t know why but I now know how to do that in case anyone wants it. I liked shooting the gun a lot more than I thought I would. I think I like that. The clothes sucked. Oh my God, it was awful. Mark was like bundled up in jackets and wet suits and coats and turtlenecks and I was in a leather bustier and black pants and 5 inch heels.

Crave Online: Well, you were commenting on the wardrobe, but the 14-year-old boys will love it.

Mila Kunis: Oh, good. I hated the clothes so much. What made me feel empowered was the gun, not the clothes. Like if I had the gun, it didn't matter what your size was, what your stature was. As long as I was holding the weapon, I win so that was really great. But the heels sucked. Oh my God, it was awful. And like five inches of snow in five inch heels, you can't look sexy and you can't look like you know what you're doing because you're fall and I'm klutzy. It's bad.

Crave Online: What attracted you to the film?

Mila Kunis: I just really wanted to beat Mark up and I did and it was really great. It was really empowering. I got a lot of my anger out and angst and yeah, that’s it. I'm a method actress. So I took my job very seriously. I insisted on practicing a lot.

Crave Online: It's so straight and serious, was there any room for levity in this?

Mila Kunis: Mark doesn't think I'm very funny. No, you know, Mona Sax wasn't very funny but coming off of Sarah Marshall, I got to laugh by myself in my hotel room plenty. No, I'm kidding. It was fine. It was different but it was fine. Yeah, I liked it, but it was very different.

Crave Online: Do you have to turn it off when they don't want you to be funny?

Mila Kunis: Around him, yeah. Absolutely. I stopped after like two weeks. I was like, "Eh, f*ck this, I won't be funny." No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm totally kidding. I have this odd tendency to be really sarcastic when I'm uncomfortable and I don't really know why but it just comes out and it's come out since I was a child and Mark makes me incredibly uncomfortable so thus I do dumb sh*t in front of him and made dumb comments. And then halfway through he just looks at me and goes, "What?" And then I was like, "Aw, f*ck." I make myself laugh all the time. I think I'm really funny. I do.
 
Crave Online: Did you sign a contract for sequels?
Mila Kunis: I did. My soul is now given to 20th Century Fox. No, I would absolutely do it. I liked working on this. I enjoyed working with Mark but if there were to be a sequel, I'd like to have a scene with somebody else other than Mark. That would be nice too. No, but seriously, I would wanna work with Beau [Bridges] because he and I never got to do anything except hang out on set. And Chris [Bridges] and I met two days ago.

Crave Online: Were you a fan of Chris's music before you met him?

Mila Kunis: Yes, yes, and let me just tell you, I was tested already. I passed it and I didn't think the test was very fun. It was not. It made me very uncomfortable. I didn't know it was going to happen. It was for what, like E News or one of them shows, was like, "This is gonna be really funny. Let's test your knowledge of Chrus." I was like oh my god. So yes, I was a fan.

Crave Online: Getting into this boys club, do you have to out-macho them?

Mila Kunis: I don't need to try to out-macho them. I am very tough, as Mark will tell you. Yes, of course. I am so not a tough person. Yeah, it's a little hard but I'm used to, from [That] '70s [Show], being around so many boys all the time. I'm used to a different relationship. I'm just more used to being picked on and being like ha ha and just more funny versus trying to kick ass and pretend like I'm really tough and know what I'm doing. I never had to do that in life. And this was definitely the first time ever where I was like okay, this is very strange and very unknown territory to me but I liked it because it was such a challenge but I did, I liked it a lot.

Crave Online: Are you into video games?

Mila Kunis: I like World of Warcraft but that's not a video game.

Crave Online: Did you ad lib the Russian in the movie with Olga Kurylenko?

Mila Kunis: Honestly, I don't really remember. I think it was probably written in the script, like "They speak Russian." And Olga and I were like, "Okay." Well, no, no, so we showed up to set and we just kind of, I mean if I'm not mistaken, it might have been John wrote something the day before, was kind of like, "Get over here, come home." It was very simple dialogue. And then Olga and I just translated it.

Crave Online: What are you doing next?

Mila Kunis: I just wrapped on Friday a thing called Extract. It's Mike Judge's next movie. It's in the vein of Office Space. It's Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck, myself, Kristin Wiig, J.K. Simmons. It's really, really funny. Takes place in an extract factory but very, very funny.

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