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Watch: Mila Kunis interview straddles the line between endearing, embarrassing

BY Tom Tangney  on March 11, 2013 @ 8:32 am (Updated: 8:45 am - 3/11/13 )

As part of her publicity duties for her movie "Oz the Great and Powerful," actress Mila Kunis who plays one of the witches did a round of junket interviews. She's received a lot of positive reaction to the way she handled a nervous rookie reporter for the BBC, Chris Stark.

Stark told her about his "lads" down at the pub, and after a quick detour into a discussion of football,(soccer,) the discussion returns to alcohol.

More than half-way through the interview, the movie's publicist tells Kunis to talk about the film, so she rattles off a bunch of pat answers to questions she's heard all day, and then wraps up the interview saying it was her best all day.

This interview of course has gone viral and Kunis is earning a lot of kudos for her just one of the lads attitude. And Stark is also earning some praise for his skill at eliciting some real responses from a celebrity actress.

Endearing or embarrassing? I find it excruciating to watch because Stark is so awkward - and she's toying with him. But I do think it's true, his very awkwardness breaks through the artificialty of most celebrity interviews.

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  • darrengrama wrote...
    I think
    March 11, 2013 8:45 am
    That was kinda awesome. She was clearly patronizing him but funny and cute about it. He seemed pretty well spoken and got to flirt with Mila Kunis. I just hope he didn't think she was serious cause that could've gotten awkward post interview.
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  • igotanopinion wrote...
    I liked it
    March 11, 2013 8:59 am
    It's nice to see when the stars become real people and you get to see a side of them that's not fake. Really liked the kid doing the interview as well.
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  • seattle-bob wrote...
    Genius
    March 11, 2013 10:00 am
    Tom, you're missing it completely. It was fantastic. She loved it as she got to talk about something other than the same subject for 5 minutes and Chris did what Chris does. Chris Stark does a very funny bit on BBC Radio 1 and was dropped in 10 minutes before with no prep and not knowing who he was meeting as a stunt by the show. What you see with him is exactly who he is. He's not some nervous 'first time journalist', but a young lad who does some great stuff for laughs on his show. Listen to Chris on '24 years at the Tap-End' and you may learn more. To call it embarassing, is to misunderstand British humour altogether.
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  • Moondoggie wrote...
    Did you ever have an interesting story to tell your friends and family?
    March 11, 2013 10:20 am
    The first few times you poured forth with every detail and everybody wants you to retell the story. But after a while you find yourself cutting out some of the story because you are getting a bit bored by having to tell the story over and over. So imagine how mind numbing it must be for movie stars on these press junkets. Good for her that she had enough smarts to roll with it. (My kudos to her are not an endorsment of her left wing wacko politics)
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  • Lillyrose125 wrote...
    Cute
    March 11, 2013 12:34 pm
    Reminded me of a Hugh Grant movie...
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  • ToldYa wrote...
    She's OK
    March 11, 2013 3:06 pm
    anyone repulsed by Jägerbombs is OK, plus she is HOT. The voice of 'meg' from family guy.
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