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Mila Kunis on 'Bad Moms' role: 'It was just the right timing'

By Karen Butler
Cast member Mila Kunis attends the premiere of the motion picture comedy "Bad Moms" in Los Angeles on July 26, 2016. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
Cast member Mila Kunis attends the premiere of the motion picture comedy "Bad Moms" in Los Angeles on July 26, 2016. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo

NEW YORK, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Mila Kunis, who is now expecting her second child with husband Ashton Kutcher, says she isn't rushing back to acting, but couldn't resist the opportunity to co-star in Bad Moms.

"It all kind of happened very serendipitously," Kunis said during a recent AOL Build discussion about the film in New York.

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"So, this is the only movie I did between Baby 1 and 2," the 32-year-old actress explained. "I never gave myself a timeline. I said, 'I'm going to go back as far as acting is concerned, when I am ready, when I find the right project, when the time is right.' I have Family Guy, I have a production company at ABC for TV and I go to work every day, but doing a film is like 17 hours a day, six days a week out of town for months on end. You really do miss chunks of your kid's life, so I was like, 'I don't know when that's going to be.' And everybody was super-supportive."

Kunis then recalled how a friend passed her the script for Bad Moms when her daughter Wyatt was about 3 months old and, although she said she devoured it as if it was a good book, she insisted she didn't consider it as the source of a possible job -- at first.

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"I was like, 'Wow, this looks like a really great movie and I can't wait to see it,' and that's it. Eight months later, it came to me as a project. Everything shifted: location changed, the timing was different. They were like, 'Would you want to be a part of it?' And I was like, 'Absolutely!' And it was just the right timing."

Co-starring Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Bell, Christina Applegate, Jada Pinkett Smith and Jay Hernandez, Bad Moms is in theaters now. It follows a group of parents who -- exhausted from the pressure of trying to be perfect for their children all the time -- rebel and become hedonistic slackers.

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