Mila Kunis praises her parents for keeping her grounded as a child star.
Mila Kunis
The 37-year-old actress landed her first major role on 'That 70s' Show' when she was just 14 years old and she credits her parents lack of indulgence for her career that kept her on the right path and away from many of the pitfalls that other child actors have fallen into.
Speaking to Collider, she said: "I didn't move to LA. I wasn't a transplant, and I didn't come here when I was 18 to make it. So, my life was always in LA. My friends are my friends from school, and I became an actor at a young age, but I loved it, but my parents were like, 'That's cool. You still got to go to school.' "So, my parents still made me go to public school. And then, I would do something horrible, they would ground me. And I was like, 'Well, how do you expect me to get to work in the morning?' And they were like, 'Here's money for the bus. Figure it out.'
"So, I probably have to say that my parents and their lack of not giving a s*** is a huge testament to why I think I looked at this as a mere… I love what I do, but it doesn't mean that that is who I am, as to how I was able to separate the two."
Mila - who has two children with her husband Ashton Kutcher - is also thankful she grew up in a time without social media as now young aspiring actors risk the wrath of cancel culture for doing something stupid or posting something dumb online when they were immature.
She said: "We're now living in a cancel culture where I feel so bad for every single young actor who's trying to make it. Because you're just allowing yourself, you're leaving yourself to be so vulnerable to so many people that you can't control the opinion of. My long-winded way of saying, 'I got lucky that it happened during a period of time when the internet existed, but wasn't what it is today.' "
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