Yes, Ashton Kutcher is aware of he went viral final week due to those awkward footage with co-star, Reese Witherspoon. The web had a subject day over how they stood subsequent to one another on the premiere for his or her new film Your Place or Mine. On the crimson carpet, the 2 leads confirmed such an absence of chemistry that even Kutcher’s spouse, Mila Kunis, took discover.
“My wife called me. She texted me and Reese together and she’s like, ‘Guys, you gotta, like, act like you like each other.’ And I’m like, ‘What’s going on?'” he explains in a preview for Wednesday’s Chicks within the Office podcast.
“Here’s the thing: If I put my arm around her and was, like, all friendly with her, I’d be having an affair with her — the rumor would be that I’m having an affair with her,” Kutcher continued. “If I stand next to her, I put my hands in my pockets so there’s no chance that, like, that could be the rumor.”
Although the rumor mill churned the opposite means, that they “don’t like each other,” Kutcher stated that is not the case.
“Reese and I are really good friends. We’re really close. I don’t have to defend that,” he added. “I don’t have to defend it.”
Kutcher, who misplaced his imaginative and prescient and listening to in 2019 amid a life-threatening battle with the autoimmune illness vasculitis, stated he nonetheless “can’t hear very well.”
“I’m hard of hearing in one ear and I can only hear in the other. I don’t know who’s yelling my name, but I know there’s a lot of people yelling, ‘Reese! Ashton! Over here! Look at this one! Over here!’ At a certain point you’re looking you’re like, ‘God, this is really something. OK, which one? Look at the camera. Got it. OK, are we done? Awesome.’ For, like, 20 minutes,” he shared.
“If you’re gonna tell me in that entire 20-minute period, at one point, you’re not going to have an awkward face, then you’re better than I am,” he quipped. “And I’m cool with that.”
Witherspoon was additionally requested in regards to the awkward footage throughout Monday’s look on the Today present. The actress stated Kunis reached out to her and Kutcher over the weekend.
“She goes, ‘You guys look so awkward on the red carpet together,'” Witherspoon instructed Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager. “It’s just fun ’cause when you know a girlfriend so much, it was just fun to get to know her significant other ’cause I’ve loved her for so long.”
Witherspoon stated she’s identified Kunis for some time, however “had to learn to be friends” with Kutcher as the 2 “didn’t really know each other.” She stated that earlier than filming, the 2 began speaking every single day and sending one another movies.
“I was like, ‘These are my dogs. These are my kids,'” Witherspoon recalled. “My kids would tease him about his football team.”
Fans can decide Kutcher and Witherspoon’s chemistry for themselves when Netflix’s Your Place or Mine drops on Friday, Feb. 10.
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