Interviews
Mila Kunis On Her New Role In Max Payne, Madden, And WoW Nubs Who eBay
October 02, 2008
When it comes to gaming, there are actresses who show up to the occasional Los Angeles game launch event for photo ops, and then there’s Mila Kunis. The star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, lives and breathes video games. She’s already acted in a game, voicing Tanya in the original Saints Row. She and her boyfriend Macaulay Culkin own every current console and log serious hours playing Wii, PlayStation 3 and World of Warcraft at their homes in LA and New York City. So it seems fitting that Kunis is appearing in Max Payne, the latest video game adaptation flick, hitting screens October 17. Kunis took some time out to talk about her new movie and her genuine love for video games, and having a bone to pick with a few denizens of Azeroth. Hit the jump to read the full interview.
Das Gamer: What’s your role in Max Payne?
Mila Kunis: I play Mona Sax. My sister gets murdered and I blame Mark Payne for that. I go and fuck him up and realize that he didn’t do it.
Sounds pretty straightforward. Did you ever played Max Payne before being offered this role?
Mila Kunis: I played Max Payne when it came out but I wasn’t very good at it. It came out around the same time as 007 and any game that requires you to move your head around, I’m not really good with. I’m much better at RPG games. But also, you don’t have to play the game to get the movie. If you never played the game in your life and you never even heard of it, you can still get the movie 100 percent.
What video games did you play growing up?
Mila Kunis: We were too poor for games back in the day. I wish I had a Nintendo when I was little. I didn’t play it until I was 13. We couldn’t afford the game consoles. But my girlfriend got the old-school Nintendo in second grade and we had Donkey Kong and Tetris on it and those were the first games I played.
What did you play when you got older?
Mila Kunis: I played Doom on the computer. My dad, my brother and I played that. That was the first non-console game I really played.
And when you could afford games, how’d you splurge with gaming?
Mila Kunis: When I could afford my own game console all hell broke loose. What didn’t I play? When I started on my own with consoles I got a Nintendo because it was on sale. Mario Kart has always been with me. Another favorite was Duck Hunt. I didn’t start playing videogames full-on until I moved out.
What consoles do you have today?
Mila Kunis: To this day, in both New York and LA, I own every single game console. You can never be away. What if you want to play Mario Party and you have a bunch of friends over? You need your Wii. Right?
