Mila Kunis On How She Handled ‘Luckiest Girl Alive”s Most Shocking Scenes (Exclusive)
10.10.2022 - 17:23
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Mila Kunis is explaining the “logical” approach she took to understand her complicated character in her new film, “Luckiest Girl Alive”. ET’s Nischelle Turner spoke with Kunis before the thriller hit Netflix on Friday, where she shared how she “reverse engineered” the role before letting the emotions of the film take over.
“I mean, I don’t know if I’m gonna sound like a sociopath, but it wasn’t that hard,” Kunis said of portraying some of the film’s more difficult moments onscreen. “I have a very healthy relationship when it comes to acting. I don’t live and breathe it when I come home. I’ve always said this: who I am and what I do are two very different things.”
“Understanding the why of the character is always the easiest way in,” she continued. “And I guess I reverse engineered it, so, I went like, ‘How did she end up here?’ These are the incidents that happened. Can’t control those incidents. You can’t fault for those incidents. You have to forgive yourself for those incidents — that is the film. So, for me to do it, I think I approached it in an oddly logical way, and then allowed the emotions to then take over.”
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In the film, Mila plays TifAni “Ani” FaNelli, a New York woman who appears to have it all, from the sought-after job at a glossy magazine to the dream Nantucket wedding. But all of that is threatened when a crime documentary director interviews her about a school shooting that took place at her prestigious high school when she was a teenager. As a result, Ani is forced to confront the truth about what actually happened.
Kunis called school shootings a “sad” reality that parents and
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