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Mila Kunishad a feeling one of her past movies wouldn’t be a hit.
TheLuckiest Girl Aliveactress, 39, spoke to Josh Horowitz on theHappy Sad Confusedpodcast about 2015’sJupiter Ascending, which she starred in alongsideChanning Tatum.
“When did we know [the movie would flop]? Before we started production, because our production got slashed in half,” Kunis said. “The original budget was twice as much, and you can do a lot more with a lot more money, and oftentimes those types of scripts have a very good storyline but extraordinary other things. Right before pre-production, for a multitude of reasons with studios and other things, the budget got cut and the movie was different.”
In it, Kunis played a maid who was the destined queen of the universe, and Tatum played a genetically engineered hunter. “I wish that Channing was here because we have some good stories,” Kunis said.
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“Those people that loathe what I do,Jupiter Ascendingtends to be their favorite of my performances,” he said. “In retrospect, it may have been too much. But I love the Wachowskis. I’ve never felt so free on set.”
Tatum previously toldVarietythat the time makingJupiter Ascendingended up being a “nightmare” for him as he took “four movies back-to-back.”
“I wasn’t as good as I wanted to be in those last two movies because I didn’t have the energy,” Tatum said. “Jupiter Ascendingwas a nightmare from the jump. It was a sideways movie. All of us were there for seven months, busting our hump. It was just tough.”
Luckiest Girl Aliveis streaming on Netflix Friday.
source: people.com
