Mila Kunis Confirms She Lied About Her Age to Land ‘That ’70s Show’ at 14 Years Old: ‘I’d Like to Make It Very Clear That I Did Lie’
variety.comZack Sharf Mila Kunis confirmed to Vanity Fair a longstanding rumor about how she landed her breakout role as Jackie Burkhart on “That ’70s Show” after lying about her age.
Kunis was 14 years old at the time, but the rumor claims she told the show’s creators she was 18 years old in order to audition as the network was only looking for older teenage actors. “There’s a rumor going around that I may or may not have lied about my age,” Kunis said. “I’d like to make it very clear now that I did lie.
I did.” “However, by the time I went to what was then a producer’s network call…you have to sign a contract before you get the job and in my contract I had to put an asterisk for ‘studio teacher,'” she continued. “They were like, ‘What do you mean?’ And I was like, ‘Oh P.S., I’m 14.’ But at that point if you talk to the creators, they were like, ‘We loved you at that point so what did we care?'” So yes, Kunis did lie about her age to get her foot in the door to audition but co-creators Bonnie and Terry Turner were well aware she was a 14 year old by the time the show started filming. “It was in the heyday of older kids playing younger kids and I was actually of the age of the character,” Kunis added. “I was never treated as lesser then.
If I did by one of the cast members another cast member would stand up for it. The reason I don’t do drugs was because nobody on the set did.
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