Sometimes life really does imitate art.
Such was the case when Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher entirely ignored the core messaging at the heart of their separate-but-basically-the-same 2011 rom-coms to take a stab at being friends with benefits—no strings attached.
“I did Friends With Benefits, he did a movie called No Strings Attached,” Kunis recounted to Howard Stern in 2016. “If we just paid attention to these movies, we should know that s–t like this does not work out in real life. Well, we clearly didn’t pay attention. We shook hands, we’re like, ‘Let’s just have fun!'”
Diligently following the scripts, about three months in, admitted Kunis, “I was like, ‘This isn’t fun anymore!'”
And so she paid a visit to her former That ’70s Show costar.
“I was like, you know what, ‘I actually care about you. I don’t want to mess anything up so I’m just going to walk away before it becomes too much,'” she detailed during a 2018 appearance on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast. “And he was like, ‘Got it.’ And the next day, he showed up to my house and he was like, ‘Move in with me’ and I said, ‘Okay.'”