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I always talk to my mom and my grandma about it. It was because I cried every day. I didn't understand the culture. I didn't understand the people. I didn't understand the language. My first sentence of my essay to get into college was like, 'Imagine being blind and deaf at age seven. She used an on-set tutor for most of her high school years while filming That '70s Show. At age nine, Kunis was enrolled by her father in acting classes after school at the Beverly Hills Studios, where she met Susan Curtis, who would become her manager.

On her first audition she landed the role for a Barbie commercial. Shortly after, she did a commercial for the Lisa Frank product line. Her first television roles took place in , first appearing on Days of Our Lives , and a few months later doing her first of two appearances on Baywatch.

At the age of 10, Kunis auditioned for but failed to get the role of a Russian Jewish girl who moves to America in the film Make a Wish, Molly. Instead, she was cast in the secondary role of a Mexican girl. All who auditioned were required to be at least 18 years old; Kunis, who was 14 at the time, told the casting directors she would be 18 but did not say when. Though they eventually figured it out, the producers still thought Kunis was the best fit for the role.

That '70s Show ran for eight seasons. Kunis won the role after auditions and a slight rewrite of the character, in part due to her performance on That '70s Show. When Kunis auditioned for the role, she was called back by MacFarlane, who instructed her to speak slower. He then told her to come back another time and enunciate more. Once she claimed that she had it under control, MacFarlane hired her. MacFarlane added: "What Mila Kunis brought to it was in a lot of ways, I thought, almost more right for the character.

I say that Lacey did a phenomenal job, but there was something about Mila — something very natural about Mila. She was 15 when she started, so you were listening to a year-old. Oftentimes with animation they'll have adult actors doing the voices of teenagers and they always sound like Saturday morning voices. They sound oftentimes very forced. She had a very natural quality to Meg that really made what we did with that character kind of really work.

Kunis described her character as "the scapegoat. American Psycho 2 was poorly reviewed by critics, and later, Kunis herself expressed embarrassment over the film. In , Kunis starred in the film adaptation Tony n' Tina's Wedding.

Although the film was shot in , it did not have a theatrical release until DVD talk concluded that "fans would be much better off pretending the movie never happened in the first place". The film received generally poor reviews and had a limited two-week run in theaters. The role, which she won after unsuccessfully auditioning for Knocked Up , entailed improvisation on her part. Kunis's performance was well-received; Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal praised her "fresh beauty and focused energy", while James Berardinelli wrote that she is "adept with her performance and understands the concept of comic timing".

She was nominated for a Teen Choice Award. In an interview, Kunis credited Apatow with helping her to expand her career from That '70s Show. Also in , Kunis portrayed Mona Sax, an assassin, alongside Mark Wahlberg in the action film Max Payne , based on the video game of the same name. Kunis underwent training in guns, boxing, and martial arts for her role. Travis Estvold of Boise Weekly wrote that she was "horribly miscast as some sort of undersized, warble-voiced crime boss".

Director John Moore defended his choice of Kunis saying, "Mila just bowled us over She wasn't an obvious choice, but she just wears Mona so well. We needed someone who would not be just a fop or foil to Max; we needed somebody who had to be that character and convey her own agenda. I think Mila just knocked it out of the park. Roger Ebert, while critical of the film itself, wrote that Kunis "brings her role to within shouting distance of credibility.

Judge said: "As beautiful as Mila is, you could believe that maybe she would cross paths with you in the real world. Film critic Richard Roeper praised Kunis's performance, calling it a "particularly strong piece of work".

Several other reviews were equally positive, including that of Pete Hammond of Boxoffice magazine, who wrote that she's "ideally cast in the key female role" Even reviewers who didn't necessarily like the film complimented her performance, such as James Berardinelli, who wrote that "the demands of the role prove to be within her range, which is perhaps surprising considering she has been thus far pigeonholed into more lightweight parts", and Colin Covert of the Star Tribune , who wrote that she "generated a spark and brought a degree of determination to her character, developing an independent female character who's not always in need of rescuing.

Kunis received another Teen Choice Award nomination for her performance. She garnered several positive reviews for her performance. Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune concluded her performance with James Franco helped save the film and gave it "a shot in the arm.

Kunis was nominated for multiple awards, including her first Golden Globe, for the film Black Swan. She played a rival ballet dancer to the main character, played by Natalie Portman.

Director Darren Aronofsky cast Kunis in the film based on her performance in Forgetting Sarah Marshall , and on the recommendation of co-star and close friend Natalie Portman. She underwent a training regimen that included cardiovascular exercise, a 1,calorie a day diet she lost 20 pounds that she regained after filming ended , and ballet classes for four hours a day, seven days a week.

During the demanding production, she suffered injuries including a torn ligament and a dislocated shoulder. Black Swan received widespread acclaim from critics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Reviews of Kunis's performance were positive, with Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter stating, "Kunis makes a perfect alternate to Portman, equally as lithe and dark but a smirk of self-assurance in place of Portman's wide-eyed fearfulness.

At the 37th annual Saturn Awards, she was also honored with the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance. Kunis was cast alongside Justin Timberlake in the romantic comedy Friends with Benefits.

Director Will Gluck stated that he wrote the story with Kunis and Timberlake in mind. Kunis is fast proving that she's a gift that keeps giving to mainstream romantic comedy" and "her energy is so invigorating and expansive and her presence so vibrant that she fills the screen". In , Kunis co-starred with Mark Wahlberg in Ted , her most commercially successful film to date. Kunis played the girlfriend of Wahlberg's character. When MacFarlane first conceived the project, he considered Kunis too young for the role.

However, the film remained in development for several years and when it was finally ready to begin production, he ended up casting her. Drew McWeeny of HitFix wrote that Kunis "brings some lovely subtle grace notes to a role that easily could have just been 'the pushy girlfriend'". She dedicated her performance in the film to Margaret Hamilton, the original Wicked Witch of the West in the film. The film, and Kunis's performance, received mixed reviews from critics. Kim Newman of Empire Magazine wrote that Kunis "walks away with the honours as the wavering witch Theodora, whose heartbreak brings another, less-expected depth to this 3D spectacle".

In contrast, Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter found Kunis's performance to be uncertain as her character seemed to be in a state of limbo. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and had a limited release in the United States in Blood Ties received mixed reviews. Howard Berger described the makeup process : There are actually four different versions of Mila as the witch, very subtle changes as she evolves in the story.

It took about an hour and a half, two hours. Myself and Peter Montagna did her makeup every day. She played about 40 days and she also had a double that played all the time as well. We made her up and the actress up every single day. Everything else is a combination of silicone and foam rubber.

For her hands, we ended up finding an easy solution. She wears these black gloves that have the fingers cut off and we ended up making latex fingertips that were the color and had the nails and everything and were incorporated into those gloves so she could pop them off and on.

She would come in in the morning, early like 3am. It was two pieces, what we call a horseshoe piece that encompasses the whole chin and sides of face, and then there was a forehead and nose that were combined.