Mila Kunis was once told that her career was over when she refused to pose for a magazine cover. She simply didn’t want to be on the cover of the magazine in question, and was told by a high-up individual that she wouldn’t work for the company again and that she was putting her career in jeopardy. Mila candidly says that the person tried to convince her it would end her career if she didn’t do as they said:
“My career was threatened over me not wanting to do the cover of a magazine by an executive. Oh, that’s not even true. A person higher than an executive. It was like, ‘If you don’t do this magazine, you’ll never work in this company.’ I went, ‘Great.’ It was the first time that I had someone on the phone tell me that I will never work in this industry again.”
Mila flat-out refused to give in to the person’s pressure even though they refused to take no as an answer:
“I said, ‘I’m sorry, what did you say?’ It wasn’t Playboy, but it was a magazine I didn’t want to do. It’s very simple. I just didn’t want to do it. I said I would do that one and that one, just not this one. And this person couldn’t accept no. In my 29 years, I’ve never met someone who lied as much as this person did.”
The actress says that so many people she deals with lie all of the time and that she has to say no to some people:
“People in this industry lie so much, they believe their lies. That’s what I learned on that movie. I learned people lie. I think that was the turning point of my career. Where I said no!”
