Don’t ask Mila Kunis how she’s feeling.
“I don’t talk about that for publication,” the 30-year-old actress “coldly” told journalist Stephen Whitty after he asked her how she was doing at the beginning of a recent interview for the Newark Star-Ledger.
The reporter sat down with Ashton Kutcher‘s fiancée, a soon-to-be mother, to talk about her latest movie, “Third Person” — and to say it went poorly would be an understatement.
According to Whitty’s account, he was constantly met with derision whenever his questioning veered away from the star’s latest film.
A topic that really set the “Black Swan” actress off was Ukraine, the country she was born in and lived in until she was 7.
“I’ve talked about me moving to America in a hundred interviews,” she told Whitty. “It’s the most mundane subject possible, it’s like everyone’s immigrant story. It was much harder for my 13-year-old brother, it was much harder for my parents.”
Things only got worse when the reporter tried to get her thoughts on the embattled country.
“I know what your next question is so let’s just skip it,” she said later. “You’re going to ask me what I think about what’s going on now in Ukraine. Just because I lived there until I was 7 doesn’t mean I identify with Ukraine.”
Maybe just as bad was when he asked Kunis, who got her big break on the sitcom “That ’70s Show,” if she’d turned to drama in search of a new challenge.
“I hate when people ask me this question,” she said. “People have this misconception that comedy’s easy … I’m always looking for challenges and I find a lot of things to be challenging. It can be the director, the producer, a lot of things. I just want to work with people more talented than I am that I can learn from.”
Miraculously, by the time the sit-down came to an end, things seemed to be going just fine.
“No, no, it was a good interview!” she said when things finally came to a close.
Maybe Whitty should have just asked her about sauerkraut?