Oz The Great and Powerful Mila Kunis Interview #Theodora #DisneyOzEvent

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 When Mila walked into the room with her bright and buoyant personality, I knew immediately that I was going to love her. Besides being absolutely stunning, she was also very down to earth and approachable. She definitely didn’t fit the Hollywood stereotype at all, seriously, she was totally someone you would want to hang out with and drink a beer or glass of wine with.

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Q : What was your experience with the Wizard of Oz movie as a child?

MILA KUNIS: I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English that I read was Return to Oz when I was nine years old. And I’ve spoken about this completely independent of this movie prior to ever being attached to this film that as a kid the first movie that I remember seeing that resonated with me was the Wizard of Oz. I think just visually the color, the spectrum of it and how fantastical it was and how much you wanted to live in that world, for a nine-year old was so magical and so grand so I have the greatest, fondest memories of it.

Q: How did you feel getting into this evil character?

MILA KUNIS: Nothing different. I mean, you know, she’s a young, naive girl who gets her heart-broken and then grows a nose. Like everything kind of happens independent of me, just adds on to the fantastical element of it. I think truthfully it’s just a girl who gets her heart-broken like I said earlier. I really don’t find her to be any different. You can put her in a romantic movie, you can put her in a non-romantic film. A girl gets her heart-broken. This one has a negative side effect. She takes a bite of an apple and things go wrong.

Q: How are you experiencing this movie different since it’s a family genre?

MILA KUNIS: Well I’m in a room full of mommies so let’s be clear, this is new.

Q: Do you feel a different response?

MILA KUNIS: Yeah, I can’t curse. No truthfully, I thought the questions would be a little bit more demure like from not you guys but from the other’s and they’re not. They’re just as obnoxious and awful as when you do an R rated film so I learned nothing changes. You can do a movie for Disney or not. People will still ask you inappropriate questions. So in order to answer it, do I feel like there’s a difference in promoting it? Apparently not. They still put you in a room with these people who apparently have no difference whether you’re making a family driven show or otherwise. But I do realize it’s very sad to me. This is the first film that I’ve done that’s not R rated. It’s a really weird connection.

Q: What was your favorite scene?

MILA KUNIS: What was my favorite scene to do? It wasn’t the waterfall sequence I’ll tell you that, ‘cause it was dirty. But, my favorite? I think appearing in Glinda’s castle is really fun for me just ‘cause it was an extra ten day to shoot. It was a long day. Hindsight 20, 20 was really fun. If you asked me while I was there I probably would have been miserable but it was really fun to do, ‘cause I got to………Michelle and I never had anything to do other than that one scene and we really wanted to work with one another and that was our one and only opportunity to do it.

Q : At the beginning of the movie did you think she was good?

MILA KUNIS : I think she had to have or the movie doesn’t make sense. Yes, I do think that she had to have or it doesn’t make sense as to why she would trust her sister and yes, I do think that she had to think that her sister was a good witch and that Glinda the good witch, is theoretically the wicked witch.

Q: Did you like the technical aspects of the film, flying etc.?

MILA KUNIS : You know what? It actually wasn’t so hard. I mean I think people prepared me for like a lot of green screen. I didn’t have a lot of green screen. They build most sets. When this castle was tangible, Emerald City was tangible, the forest, the woods was tangible, the cemetery, everything was there. So it’s not like I had to imagine things, and as far as wire work goes, I had fun with it. The next project that I’m doing is a lot more wire work so I’ll let you know after that one but in this one it was really fun.

Q : Do you feel this movie puts you in a different place with fans?

MILA KUNIS : I hope so. I don’t know. I’ll let you know when it comes out. I really don’t know. You know, I come from television where I feel like I’m in people’s living rooms every day so it’s not crazy for me to think that like a ten year old would know, but, I don’t know.

Q : Do you have the doll?

 MILA KUNIS : I do.

Q : Do you play with it?

MILA KUNIS : I just got it two days ago. It’s still in its box. I won’t lie. I’ve shown it to everybody that walks into the house because let me be clear. It’s not just a doll, it’s a Disney doll! Like that’s me. I’m like hey you guys, have you seen this? Check this out? See this. Everybody that walks into the house. Like I don’t even care. I’m like bringing out the doll because it’s a Disney doll. It’s insane. It’s insane. But no it’s still in its box. I think you can buy it at Target. Not to say that I know these things but I think you may.

Q : Tell me about working with the rest of the cast.

MILA KUNIS : James and I, I think counted — it’s our eighth movie together, eighth project together so he doesn’t count. We’re stuck with one another. Rachel and I had a fantastic time. We had so much fun and Michelle and I literally got to do one thing together and she and I are dying to work more. Detroit was really fun, FYI, in case anybody wants to go to Detroit. I love it. I did.

Q : What age is the movie appropriate for?

MILA KUNIS : Oh, I don’t know. I don’t. I think that what kids watch now a days is different than what kids watch when I was young so I don’t know. I think that it’s up to the parents to decide. That’s the truth. I’m not a parent. I have no idea, but I think some parents let a ten year old watch it and some parents wouldn’t. I have no say in it. Do you? What is it? PG13, PG?

Q: PG?

MILA KUNIS: PG, so what does that mean? So it just means that anybody can see it with their parent? There you go Ask a Mom. It’s a little spooky at times. The green thing I don’t think frightens kids. It frightened me when I was like little because I didn’t have the internet and didn’t have all these other things that were, you know, in front of me at all times and accessible. Now a days, I don’t think these things scare kids. I think that kids are so desensitized to violence and I don’t mean this in a negative way what so ever, but, I just think it’s the reality that I think that it’s just all changing so I don’t know.

Q: Would you mind taking a group photo?

MILA KUNIS : Yeah, with the mommy bloggers!

Assistant: We want the mommy bloggers at every junket!

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