After avoiding nudity in the past when shooting short film “Hotel Chevalier”, Natalie Portman is forced to do another raunchy scene as she will be seen having same-sex sequence with Mila Kunis in “Black Swan”. Recently, the actress admitted that she had to struggle with her nerves before shooting the said part, saying “I was terrified. At the moment I lived in a state of inner terror.”

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Also, in an interview with Fear Network, the director of the movie talks about where they are in shooting and a little about Mila’s role in the movie.

Can you talk a little bit about Black Swan? Can you talk about what stage of production you’re at?

Fischer: It’s shooting right now. It’s in production, we’re getting kind of toward the end of photography. It’s shooting here in New York City. (I’ll probably pop by the set – Mike and I are gonna go by before we head off to Europe.) It’s going great. The dailies look amazing; it’s Darren Aronofsky and Natalie Portman [both pictured above on set] and Mila Kunis.

What do you think it offers thriller fans?

Fischer: It takes a very kind of dark and disturbing journey – in this case Natalie plays a ballerina who has dreams of becoming a star. And she gets that opportunity, and there’s a lot of elements that play out for her, where she starts to wonder if she’s gonna be basically undercut by somebody else, by Mila Kunis’s character in the film. So you’re not sure how much of it is paranoia, how much of it is reality. She starts to work through some of that as the twists and turns start coming. It’s a very cool piece.

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Even fans of “That ’70s Show” probably wouldn’t have picked Mila Kunis as the cast member with the brightest film career in front of her.
It just might turn out that way, however. In the past couple of years, she has had substantial roles in “Max Payne,” “Extract” and “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” She now stars alongside Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman
in “The Book of Eli.”
Kunis spoke recently about her “Eli” role as Solara, about her career and about the price of too much exposure.
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Question: You get to do a lot of action in this film. Was that fun?
Answer: Anytime you get to kick ass it’s kind of rad, because how often in life can you blow up cars with grenades?

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With her latest movie, Mila Kunis may finally fulfill her destiny.

Having begun acting professionally at age nine, the Ukraine-born beauty rose to fame playing goofy comedy on television’s That ’70s Show. Now with the dystopian drama The Book of Eli, she shares company with such an esteemed thespian as Denzel Washington — a step in the right direction.

“He’s a very powerful man,” said Kunis during a recent interview. “At this point in my career, I like to work with people that I admire and people I respect and can learn from, and an opportunity to work with Denzel Washington, you can’t really pass it up.”

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Think movie-making is a glam job? For petite, dark-haired actress Mila Kunis, throwing a grenade, kicking serious butt during a dust storm and wearing a dirty, yet somehow hot-looking wardrobe, was just part of a day’s work on set for her new post-apocalypse actioner The Book of Eli.

In real life, would Mila survive in a wrecked future world? “I’d fail miserably” she is telling us, “but I can kick some serious ass, especially if I’m wearing five-inch heels”.

We’re at a hidden-away Hollywood hotel with independent Mila, who was telling press in December that marrying long-time boyfriend Macaulay Culkin just isn’t important to her. She is with us to spill all on working with big movie star Denzel Washington and the challenges of the isolated New Mexico location. “I’m an L.A. girl. I haven’t even been camping and there were rattlesnake holes!”

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Best known for her roles as Jackie Burkhart in That 70’s Show and as the voice of Meg on the hit animated series Family Guy, Mila Kunis has also established herself as a feature film star with an impressive resume that includes the Mike Judge comedy Extract, the action thriller Max Payne and the Judd Apatow comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Currently filming the Darren Aronofsky thriller Black Swan, in which she plays a professional ballerina, her next release is The Book of Eli, in which she plays Solara, an innocent girl wanting to discover what else life could offer her, in a world that has been ravaged by apocalyptic wars. With Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman already attached as co-stars and the Hughes Brothers already set to direct, it was an easy choice for her to take on the multi-layered role.

Mila Kunis talked at the film’s press day about her desire to play strong women who aren’t the victim. Read what she had to say after the jump:

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Mila Kunis might be a mainstay on Maxim’s Hot 100 list, but, if it were up to her, she’d be appearing in her latest movie with a killer sunburn and the world’s worst teeth.

In the post-apocalyptic “The Book of Eli,” opening Friday, the world’s population is reduced to small bands of grimy survivors, including good guy Eli (Denzel Washington) and his nemesis, the power-mad Carnegie (Gary Oldman). Almost everybody looks like they’ve been to hell and back, with the exception of Kunis.

“I wanted gnarly teeth,” the actress, 26, says. “But they were like, ‘Uh, no.’ Why? Because apparently an American audience would not want to look at me for two hours with gnarly teeth. I disagree.”

On second thought, Kunis says, it’s probably better off that her character – Carnegie’s pampered stepdaughter Solara – isn’t as gritty as the rest of the filthy, dirty bunch.

“Actually, Solara is not supposed to be gnarly. She’s being taken care of by Carnegie. She was able to shower. She didn’t have frills about her, and her hair was never blown dry, but she wasn’t dirty. She didn’t have sunburn on her face; she didn’t have to.”

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Mila Kunis is no stranger to stunt work and action scenes. She played a lethal assassin in Max Payne, and she’s not exactly a damsel in distress in her new film The Book of Eli. She and co-star Denzel Washington spend a lot time running from danger as mankind struggles to recover from near destruction of the planet.

Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf found out that Kunis is the first to admit she’d never survive a real-life scenario.

Not ready for a post-apocalyptic world.
“I would fail. I would fail miserably. I would need what’s his name, Bear Grylls, who does that survival show Man vs. Wild. I would need him with me because I wouldn’t know what to eat. I would be the first to eat the wrong thing because I wouldn’t know it was poisonous. So I’m not a survivalist.”

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