Dumb Things Celebrites Say: Ashton Kutcher

Although it's not fair to only pick on Ashton Kutcher since hundreds of celebs have said the same thing, here goes: In a recent interview, the actor was asked if jealousy ever arose on either his or Demi Moore's part over love scenes they have starred in.

Kutcher's response?

It's interesting that people look at sex in that way. If I had a scene in a movie where I had to go shoot someone with a gun, Demi wouldn't think that I was a murderer. So if I have a scene in a movie where I'm having sex with somebody else, Demi doesn't think that I'm in another relationship. You go to work and you play make-believe, and you come home and you live real life. That's part of our jobs.

Sex with a beautiful co-star is like shooting a gun? Really?

Mayo Method isn't that stupid. She was happily (presumably) married to 45-year old Humphrey Bogart when her husband co-starred with 19-year old Lauren Bacall in To Have & Have Not, in 1944. The next year they weren't married anymore and Bogart wed Bacall.

More recently, Brad Pitt, married at the time to one of the world's most beautiful women, Jennifer Aniston, fell in love with his co-star Angelina Jolie after one of those cold, mechanical, love scenes that Kutcher likens to gunplay.

I could go on -- Hollywood history is replete with such examples, but Kutcher is ignorant of all of that and lives in a reality-free zone wherein human beings are unemotional creatures who can perform sex scenes without any emotional attachment.

 

 

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Comments

[MaryscottOConnor]

11:14 PM on 10/28/2009

Sorry, dude. You are wrong here. I think the rest of the commenters have pretty much covered the whys and wherefores of the logic.

[JimmyMann]

07:14 AM on 10/20/2009

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[brettrobbins]

09:20 PM on 10/10/2009

"Sex with a beautiful co-star is like shooting a gun? Really?" It's called an analogy, and it's a perfectly valid one. His comparison between sex scenes and murder scenes isn't meant to suggest that they're similar in subject matter but rather that they're both types of scenes that neither the speaker nor her wife identify with when they perform them in a movie. Sorry but Ashton Kutcher isn't the idiot he portrayed on "That '70s Show." I wonder if you'd be singling him out like this (despite your purely formal and disingenuo­us disclaimer at the beginning of your piece) if he hadn't played the role of Michael Kelso. Why pick on him? Because he's a celebrity? Because you've run out of things to write about?

[Nelson Montana]

06:33 PM on 10/10/2009

Having worked as an actor I can tell you for a fact that if you kiss someone who you find attractive­, it's a turn on. Romances start all the time in just that way. But what else is the guy going to say? It's a stock answer. But you'd have to be pretty naive to believe it.

[ChelleAgain]

10:51 AM on 10/09/2009

I think he gave a flippant answer to a silly question.

[cyjames1975]

06:00 PM on 10/08/2009

It's probably not the sex scenes. I imagine that is pretty clinical as everyone always says, shooting from different angles over and over, being interrupte­d, people everywhere­... It's probably the TIME spent on the movie set. Day in, day out, hours on end in a concentrat­ed environmen­t where for a brief period, these might be the only people you see. You have dinner, hang out, develop inside jokes only you and the people sharing the experience with you understand -- then, next thing you know, there's a relationsh­ip with someone you met on the set. Or you've fooled yourself into thinking there's real "chemistry­."

[BlackJAC]

09:59 AM on 10/08/2009

Why are you ascribing so much depth and seriousnes­s to a guy whose debut movie was DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? Even Bruce Campbell is on record as saying that love scenes are as exciting as getting it on with one's sister.

Further, the examples you cite are attributab­le to the false intimacy generated by spending 14-hour work days, seven days a week for multiple months filming something. And a lot of that time is spent waiting for the shot to get set up; running lines kind of gets boring after a while. Also, Bogart and Bacall were operating in the days of the Motion Picture Production Code, where love scenes were restricted to fully-clot­hed, closed-mou­th kisses that the camera would pan away from because said Code kept everything to what the MPAA would designate a soft PG at the most.

[Jamie Frevele]

10:43 AM on 10/08/2009

Bless your soul for quoting Bruce Campbell.

[wietog]

04:10 AM on 10/08/2009

When people become famous or make a lot of money, they sometimes begin to believe their own hype and really, truly think they did it themselves­. They forget how much a support network, connection­s, luck, looks and timing have to do with it.

As far as stars having relationsh­ips, it happens on every level. Even in our high school musical, the leads enjoyed a romantic tryst. Why? Because they get a little big-headed­, what with all that attention. They barely know each other, yet must physically be intimate. They star in a fantasy, and see the mythical hero and heroine in each other...an­d in themselves­.

It's so predictabl­e!

[LMPE]

12:50 AM on 10/08/2009

If you really want to focus on dumb comments, focus on Mike Huckabee (who can't even get Sonia Sotomayor'­s name right).

[Ellyllon]

07:54 PM on 10/07/2009

I see nothing wrong with his statement. It's quite probable that, in most cases, it's exactly as Kutcher describes. In others, two compatible people meet, at work (it happens in the dullest profession­s) and fall in love, or at least, into mad infatuatio­n or lust. They leave spouses they weren't happy with, & move on. How is that different from any other profession­?

It's also possible that these people didn't fall in love because they were 'acting' in love, but because they liked each other off-screen­, as people, and as artists.

You can act in love with someone, & hate them in real life. You can beautifull­y perform sex, adoration, & everything else, and not feel those things in real life.

You may not agree with him - but calling him dumb seems rather rude and needlessly snarky.

[Tallulah Morehead]

07:49 PM on 10/07/2009

So the concept of "Acting" escapes you?

Someone has said something dumb here all right, but it wasn't Kutcher. it was Mr. Joseph and his amazing black & white worldview.

A handful of examples of when actors have fallen for romantic co-stars, but which ignores the HUNDREDS OF THOUSEANDS of examples of romantic leads who did NOT fall in love offset, does not negate Kutcher's plain-spok­en obvious truth.

[TAFL]

09:13 PM on 10/07/2009

Spot on.

[Paradym]

08:02 AM on 10/08/2009

Exactly right!

When celebritie­s fall in love on set (or directors, producers, gaffers, etc.) it's no different than the secretary and accountant falling in love at work. It's not the sex scenes, which are anything but sexy, it's spending time together for weeks on end. Imagine being naked (or half naked), with 20-30 people standing around just beyond the glare of all the lights, staring at you, a big mic bobbing a couple feet above your head, hair and makeup people running in and out. Then someone yells "Action" and you have to get right into it, make it look real while being aware of the camera and lights and contorting your body accordingl­y, only to be stopped sharply with "Cut!" because the camera isn't framed right, or the lights are the right temperatur­e, or the mic isn't working, or the director doesn't think you are emoting the right way for the scene that you're probably filming out of context from yesterday'­s shoot. Then you go back to your trailer maybe for about 30 minutes while they fix the problem, before it's back to the set to undress and try it all again. "Okay, be sexy, make it real... and GO!" Yeah, that's not very sexy.

[aftershock]

04:46 PM on 10/07/2009

"Kutcher is ignorant of all of that and lives in a reality-fr­ee zone wherein human beings are unemotiona­l creatures who can perform sex scenes without any emotional attachment­."

And apparently you live in a world without prostitute­s if you believe your statement.­..

[marcelle144]

02:30 PM on 10/07/2009

I didn't take it as a stupid answer by Kutcher. I completely understood what he was saying. He's doing his job so, if you're in a good relationsh­ip, why would your partner be jealous???­?! Yes, it does happen where there's reason to be jealous of partners but, obviously they have a great enough of a relationsh­ip that there's trust and honesty and no need for jealousnes­s.

I think you're making a big deal out of nothing!!

[rjmiller]

12:56 PM on 10/07/2009

To be fair, Angelina seems to hook up with/marry her male costar every other film.

[booker52]

03:32 PM on 10/07/2009

Shall we ask Lora Durn or Jennifer if it was fair their man left them for this woman??

[bokiluis]

12:55 PM on 10/07/2009

Ashton's a beautiful guy physically that unfortunat­ely has said a lot of incoherent things lately like his recent appearance on Bill Maher's show where he said he "didn't want to pay for fat, unhealthy human beings" or there abouts.

You should ask him how he fared with "Spread" at the box office with grosses below $1 million.