Kunis lost 20 pounds from an already light frame and wore prosthetic “meth teeth” in the film, and also had to capture the jittery convulsions or “tweaking” of an addict. “The physicality of it becomes really challenging, and she's just in a constant state of despair. My character never had any release.
Mila Kunis shed 20 pounds with Natalie Portman for the film 'Black Swan,' but as she acknowledged to Howard Stern, her technique was not healthy. In the past, Hollywood has seen some remarkable alterations.
We're racking our brains trying to remember the last time Mila Kunis changed up her hair colour and apart from a short stint as a bleached blonde for the role in her new movie Four Good Days, we're coming up empty.
Mila Kunis says she wasn't happy with her figure after she dieted down to 98 pounds to play a ballerina in Black Swan. So she's thrilled to have gained some weight back — which is something you never ever hear an actress say.
Natalie Portman took on the diet and training of a real ballerina. She would eat a few grapes for breakfast, a small salad for lunch, and a few more grapes for dinner while working 16hrs a day. She lost 20lbs for the role.
Mila Kunis Says She Was as Thin for ‘Four Good Days’ as She Was for ‘Black Swan’
How many calories did Mila Kunis eat for Black Swan?
Mila Kunis has confessed that her diet was restricted to 1,200 calories per day while filming Black Swan. The actress - who shrunk down to 95lbs for her role as a ballet dancer in the film - revealed that she was in "hell" during filming and only ate foods that fit in her hand, reports the Daily Star.
When Kunis had her first kiss with now-husband Ashton Kutcher, she had just quit smoking. "She wanted me to, like, shotgun a cigarette smoke so she could breathe it in and I was, like, 'All right,'" Kutcher said. Since then, the pair have not been seen partaking in the habit.
Did Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis lose weight for Black Swan?
Already lean, Kunis dropped 20 pounds in order to play Natalie Portman's ballerina frenemy in "Black Swan." At 95 pounds, Kunis says "I was muscles, like a little brick house, but skin and bones." Unfortunately, when she gained the weight back, Kunis says it ended up in completely different places.
Milena Markovna Kunis was born into a Ukrainian Jewish family on August 14, 1983, in Chernivtsi, a city in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (now Ukraine).
Mila Kunis: If you happen to catch a photo of young Mila you can see that she naturally has tight coily hair, sadly this is a look that she seems to never revert to these days. Unfortunate as it seems that he hair responded well to styling, scrunch with Curlisto Control II gel to achieve Mila's above style.
But due to religious persecution, her family uprooted and immigrated to the U.S. when Kunis was seven years old. “My whole family was in the Holocaust. My grandparents passed and not many survived,” Kunis told Britain's The Sun. After the Holocaust, the atmosphere in the USSR became very anti-Semitic.
Actress Mila Kunis was born in the Ukraine and lived there until the age of seven – so Russian, rather than English, is her native language. What's more she still speaks Russian with her family and her fluency and ease with both languages makes her a popular ambassador for her work in Russia and former Soviet states.
Soon after the L.A.-based Kunis was cast in "Black Swan," the film's choreographer, Benjamin Millepied, contacted the Los Angeles Ballet's artistic directors and asked if they could provide Kunis with ballet training. Instead of taking on the task themselves, they recommended Blacker for the assignment.
Natalie Portman dropped 20 pounds to play a ballerina in "Black Swan." Portman was on a carrots-and-almond diet, working five-to-eight hours a day for a year to slim her already trim figure down for the lead role in Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan."
When working on Black Swan, Kunis (who's 5′ 4″) ended up weighing about 95 pounds. She got to this point by eating only 1,200 calories per day and by smoking cigarettes – a diet the actress most-definitely does not recommend for anyone else. “I never watched what I ate [before].
She ate well-balanced meals of low glycemic carbs, lean proteins and healthy fats. Mila has never been one to obsess over her diet. In fact, she calls herself a 'foodie' and admits to enjoying Chinese takeout and burgers on occasion.
And celebrities like Lori Harvey openly speak out about only consuming 1,200 calories as their way to lose weight. In a recent TikTok video, which has reached almost 1.5 million views, the 25-year-old celeb and model talked about how she gained "relationship weight" when she first started dating Michael B.
Kutcher and Kunis met on the set of That '70s Show back when Kunis was 14 years old and Kutcher was 20. Kunis played Jackie Burkhart while Kutcher played Michael Kelso, and their characters dated on and off throughout the series.
Kunis, in the video, speaks about how she and Kutcher “support victims” in their work. Nearly a week later, on Sept. 14, Kutcher issued an apology to Thorn and announced that he would be stepping down from his role as board chairman effective immediately.
