Month: October 2022

Even though Mila Kunis has stayed relatively quiet over the years, she has never stopped churning out project after project, all while saying some silly things about her marriage to Ashton Kutcher. In 2020, she starred in Four Good Days alongside Glenn Close, and last year she had a small role in the black comedy Breaking News In Yuba County. But movie roles aside, many people seem to forget that Kunis is still getting her Family Guy paycheck after over two decades.

It’s been 20 years, but Kunis is still the voice of Meg, the unloved teenage daughter on the Fox comedy. Kunis has been featured in almost 400 (!!!) episodes of Seth MacFarlane’s sometimes raunchy sitcom.

Kunis reportedly makes anywhere between $150,000 and $225,000 per episode, and each season has about 20 episodes. Factoring in syndication and DVD sales, you don’t have to do the math to understand that she is quite literally making bank on this show after 20 years.

Despite being on the show for so long, Kunis has consistently said that starring as Meg is the “greatest job ever.” Though Meg’s character has stayed more or less the same over the years, Kunis did recently mention the one time she asked for Meg to change up her look. “I only ever asked once for Meg to get a makeover,” Kunis recently told Vanity Fair. “It was like years into the show, and I was like, “Just give her something. Get the condom hat off of her head, give her a hairdo.” And then I think they gave her blonde hair, and I was like, “Thank God! Like finally!” Of course, since she is a cartoon character, she quickly went back to her default look. But hey, at least she made some good money off of it.

The anticipation for SZA’s forthcoming album is continuing to build as more time passes since the release of her last critically acclaimed album, Ctrl. She teased fans in May by saying, “The album’s finally ready to go — more than I’ve ever felt before. So this summer, it’ll be a SZA summer.” However, it’s October now and there’s still nothing.

A Twitter account devoted to statistics and updates on the singer, @szaoncharts, recently tweeted: “.@sza’s new album is called a continuation of Ctrl but with a completely different sound. While Punch describes the new album as ‘somebody who’s lost and then discovered themselves.”” SZA replied, writing, “Ion agree w this at all.”

Fans in the replies are asking the next question: Well, what does it sound like then? It’s unlikely that SZA will provide that information, but hopefully we’ll find out soon.

In a recent interview, she said she doesn’t know much about the record.

“I don’t even know what this album is about and what it sounds like,” she stated. “Which is why I had to go to the mode of what feels good to my brain and to my energy and the songs that I think are hot, I just have to go with them.”

A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie is in full album mode. The Bronx-bred rapper released his melodic loyalty anthem “B.R.O. (Better Ride Out)” featuring Roddy Ricch on Friday (October 7), three days after teasing it with an Instagram video capturing him in the studio with his frequent collaborator.

A Boogie’s fourth studio album, Me Vs. Myself, is set for a November 4 release, but on “B.R.O.,” he reminds himself that he’s not alone. “I ain’t got no friends, all my n****s’ blood to me,” A Boogie makes clear in the intro before doubling down on the sentiment in the chorus: “Treat my whole gang just like blood brothers / If I call you my brother then we gon’ ride.” Roddy reciprocates the feeling on his verse, “The projects always showin’ love for me / Whenever I’m in New York, me and Boogie like cousins.”

A Boogie’s bond with Roddy extends well beyond the context of this track. The Atlantic Records labelmates previously collaborated on “Tip Toe,” a track on Roddy’s acclaimed 2019 debut studio album Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial, and “Numbers” for A Boogie’s February 2020 release Artist 2.0.

A Boogie stayed mostly silent in 2021, releasing the 7-track project B4 AVA last December. In April of this year, he dropped “Playa” featuring H.E.R., and then featured on Rowdy Rebel’s “New York” in July followed by the collaborative “Me, Myself & I” with G Herbo last month.

Me Vs. Myself is out 11/4 via Atlantic Records. Pre-save it here.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Today (October 7), Ozuna released his new 18-track album Ozutochi. The Puerto Rican superstar collaborated with many reggaeton heavy-hitters like J Balvin, Chencho Corleone, and Feid.

Ozutochi follows Ozuna’s last album, 2020’s Enoc. Across the 18 new tracks, he gives reggaeton music a sleek electronic update that ups his mystique as the genre’s most alluring artist. Ozuna also released the music video for the magical “Mañana” where he sings about a fling blossoming into a romance.

For the album’s perreo de résistance moment, Ozuna joined forces with reggaeton music’s pioneers and top acts in the sexy “El Cel.” He taps into the genre’s roots with Chencho Corleone, Arcángel, and Randy. Colombian superstar J Balvin rounds out the stellar collaboration. Ozuna supports the reggaeton upstarts as well like Feid who features in “Hey Mor” and Danny Ocean who drops in for “4:22.”

Ozuna also taps into his Dominican roots by embracing many of the country’s genres. He blends reggaeton with dembow alongside Dominican rapper Tokischa in the empowering “Somos Iguales.” Another dembow banger on the album is “Perreo y Dembow” featuring Dominican act El Cherry Scom. In the frenetic “Un Lio,” Ozuna puts a new spin on merengue alongside Dominican icon Omega.

Among the pop acts that feature on Ozutochi are Argentine singer Tini in the dreamy “Un Reel” and Pedro Capó in the tropical “Mar Chiquita.” Ozuna is currently touring the US on the Ozutochi Tour. The tour’s final stop will be in Miami on December 9.

Danny Ocean is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Rundown is a weekly column that highlights some of the biggest, weirdest, and most notable events of the week in entertainment. The number of items could vary, as could the subject matter. It will not always make a ton of sense. Some items might not even be about entertainment, to be honest, or from this week. The important thing is that it’s Friday, and we are here to have some fun.

ITEM NUMBER ONE – One of the greats continues to thrive

One of the bigger issues I have with our society at large right now is that we do not spend enough time talking about how awesome Jennifer Coolidge is and has been for a few decades. All the woman does is crank out hits. She’s been running around in the Christopher Guest troop of goofballs forever, she was the character in American Pie who inspired the term MILF, she was perfectly cast in Legally Blonde, all of it. She doesn’t do a ton of things range-wise in most of these projects, but you don’t have to do anything else when you do one thing better than anyone else. Jennifer Coolidge is the best.

Luckily, for society and me, not necessarily in that order, this was a really great week for Jennifer Coolidge, good enough that I had a reasonable excuse to put her name in a headline and her face in a featured image at the top of this page. Which I did. You probably noticed that already. We’re all doing pretty great this week.

The big story was the release of the trailer for season two of The White Lotus, the HBO limited series that earned her a fancy trophy at the Primetime Emmys the first time around. The show is doing a kind of modified Knives Out maneuver, where she is the only part of the first run that is coming back for the second, with the action moving from Hawaii to Italy as her character, Tanya (perfect name for a Jennifer Coolidge character), takes a vacation at another hotel in the White Lotus chain of resorts. It looks great.

It is a little upsetting that it took us until the early 2020s to figure out that “send Jennifer Coolidge to swanky resorts around the globe and let her chill by the pool and do the Jennifer Coolidge thing while everything around her devolves into anarchy” was a viable genre of television, but the good news is that we’re here now. I want to see her character and Aubrey Plaza’s character have a conversation, maybe over brunch, mostly because those two possess very distinct and dissimilar vibes and I want to see what happens when you smush them together on one screen for a while.

There was also this earlier in the week, the trailer for the upcoming comedy Shotgun Wedding, which starts out looking like something straight out of about 2004 — a rom-com about Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel getting married, with Jennifer Coolidge as the mother of the groom — until right around the one-minute mark, where it takes a truly wonderful turn. Please, enjoy.

Just beautiful. I have no clue if the movie itself will be any good. I don’t know if the pairing of Lopez and Duhamel can carry a zany-ass comedy about pirates invading a destination wedding and the collected guests fighting back to stop them. I do appreciate the ambition of everyone involved, though, both for the wild plot and, again, the thing where they cast the thing like exactly the kind of movie it looks like the first half of the trailer is selling and then introduced madness. That’s cool.

Mostly, though, I’m just glad this movie exists because the trailer gave the world this image.

To recap: Two trailers were released this week for projects that feature Jennifer Coolidge at a luxury resort where everything goes sideways in dramatic fashion. At least one of them features her shouting “No one f*cks with my family” and then spraying a machine gun at a crew of pirates. I say “at least one” only because I am still holding out hope that The White Lotus will work that in somewhere too. Let me have this dream, at least for a few weeks. And put Jennifer Coolidge in a John Wick movie. Have her run one of the Continental assassin hotels in, oh, let’s say Bermuda. Just keep sending her to scenic resorts for various projects that may or may not involve her cussing and drinking champagne and maybe firing a crossbow at her enemies.

Let Jennifer Coolidge thrive. She’s earned it. And so have we.

ITEM NUMBER TWO – This will fascinate me for the rest of my days, I suspect

I can be prone to a bit of hyperbole. I know that. I get excited and declare things to be the best or the worst when they’re probably just, like, pretty good or pretty bad. It’s something I’m aware of and something I try to work on. With that said, this interview in Variety with Guy Fieri might be the single greatest piece of journalism I have ever seen.

Yes, fine, I’m having some fun with it all here, but seriously, read it. Read all of it. But especially read this paragraph. Read it twice, if you have the time, then meet me below the blockquote for a discussion about the specifics involved in this beautiful little collection of words.

When asked about the one celebrity he geeked out over, he casually recalls meeting one of his idols at Arnold Schwarzenegger’s home. “I said, ‘If I’m coming over, I’ve gotta cook,’” Fieri shares. “He said, ‘No, no, no, we’ll order sandwiches.’ I said, ‘I’m not not cooking.’ So, I’m there cooking and Sylvester Stallone comes in — and then, in walks Al Pacino.” In telling this story, Fieri’s jaw is on the ground. “It was like the meeting of the titans,” he raves. “I said, ‘Al, can I make you something to eat?’” The “Godfather” actor asked for pasta, but not too spicy. “I’m terrified to ask him. I said, ‘Sir, how is it?’” After Pacino took a bite, he told Fieri he liked the dish; the chef had to step outside to get some fresh air, he was so excited.

Some notes here, in bullet form mostly because if I start typing paragraphs I might never stop:

• I can’t stop picturing this entire scene in my head
• Seriously, this is like four of the greatest and most distinctive voice-havers in the world together in one kitchen
• Think about Arnold saying “we’ll order sandwiches”
• Think about Al Pacino saying “pasta, not too spicy”
• Think about Stallone standing behind Guy Fieri maybe asking him if he’s using too much oregano
• It’s basically an SNL sketch but real

I have been thinking about it all pretty much three or four times every day since it was published last Friday and I don’t see any realistic scenario where that stops happening before the end of the year

There’s this, too:

Have you seen the TikTok fascination of you vibing at concerts?

I have seen that…. yeah, no. [Laughing] There were some TikToks that my kids sent to me when I was at Rage… but are there some?

There are many. People just love watching you vibe.

I’ve been waiting for 20 years to see Rage play live… I said [to my son], “I’m going off.” I was going to go in the pit, but then I got shut down. But that would have made social media.

Okay. Again. Imagine you’re at a Rage Against the Machine concert and you’re in the pit and you get absolutely rocked from your blindside and you look up from the ground to see who just sent you tumbling into a sea of arms and legs and this is what is looking down at you…

You would have to provide video evidence of this or none of your friends would ever believe you. It would be a double whammy that way. I do not think I would like to get trucked by Guy Fieri in a mosh pit.

ITEM NUMBER THREE – A real cosmic gumbo here

This is the trailer for the upcoming Christmas film Violent Night, which I am already planning to slot into my Top 10 Movies of the Year based on its title alone. I am so proud of whoever put that title on top of the script and so proud of the various executives who resisted their urge to meddle with it. That alone is a monumental feat. Then you get to the actual action in there and, I mean… it’s really kind of beautiful. Santa Claus is armed to the teeth now and he’s played by David Harbour. That’s just great work by everyone. Please watch the trailer if you haven’t. Keep watching it through the weekend if you want. Businesses are going to put up Christmas stuff as soon as spooky season winds down. You’re allowed to get excited a little early, too.

I clicked on something like 400 links about this movie throughout the week, but the most straightforward description I saw came from Rotten Tomatoes. This is exactly what I am looking for in a movie.

When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus (David Harbour) is on the grounds, and he’s about to show why this Nick is no saint.

My favorite thing about all of this, coming in slightly ahead of Santa saying the line “Time for some season’s beatings” and the part where the whole trailer is set to the objectively great holiday song “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” by Darlene Love and the thing where Edi Patterson from The Righteous Gemstones is in the movie according to the cast list, is that it kind of reminded me of the Crashmore sketch from I Think You Should Leave, the one where Santa Claus takes a role in an action movie as a loose cannon cop named Crashmore.

This is where I post the fictional trailer for that movie.

The takeaway here, if I were to narrow everything down to a single point, is that I am definitely going to see this movie. And that we should probably let Tim Robinson write and direct a Christmas movie. And that Sam Richardson should play Santa in that movie. And Edi Patterson should be in it, too. I realize I have now listed four takeaways when I said I was going to list one. If we’re all being honest with ourselves here, that number is still actually on the low end for what I was expecting. They made Die Hard with Santa. I’m only so strong.

ITEM NUMBER FOUR – It is really wild that the Community movie is actually happening

I can’t think of many shows that have had a wilder ride than Community over the last decade or so. It started as a semi-straightforward single-camera comedy about a fast-talking lawyer who has to go back to community college when it’s discovered his original college degree is fraudulent. Then it became a genre-bending examination of the sitcom format itself. Then Chevy Chase said some wild stuff and got fired. Then the showrunner, Dan Harmon, clashed with people and got fired. Then they brought him back. Then it got canceled. Then it came back on — and I’m going to blockquote a paragraph from Variety in a second that elaborates on this, just because I’m still not entirely sure it wasn’t all a hallucination I had — a streaming service called Yahoo! Screen. Then it got canceled again. Then Donald Glover went on to become a celebrated television auteur on his own with Atlanta. And Dan Harmon moved on to Rick & Morty and almost broke the worldwide Mcdonald’s supply chain over a joke about the Szechuan sauce. Again, wild.

Anyway, there’s going to be a Community movie now, next year, years after all of that stuff happened, fulfilling the show’s running meta joke about six seasons and a movie. It’s going to be on Peacock, which is another thing I kind of wonder if I’m hallucinating sometimes, too. Here’s the blockquote I was talking about earlier.

Still, after years of dancing around cancellation, NBC finally pulled the plug on “Community” at the end of its fifth season. But that wasn’t the end of the line. Sony pitched a Season 6 to its then-sister ad-supported streamer Crackle, as well as Hulu, which held the show’s streaming rights. But none of those outlets could make it work financially. Then came Yahoo! Screen, which pledged 13 episodes at the show’s previous $2 million an episode price tag.

It was good for “Community” — but not so much for Yahoo!, which realized its investment far exceeded any revenue coming out of the show. By the end of Season 6 (and after a total of 110 episodes), “Community” had wrapped for good — as had Yahoo! Screen.

My position on all of this is that it is fine and good and I will probably watch it out of a mix of curiosity and nostalgia and the thing where the first three seasons of Community were some of the coolest and most creative television I’ve ever seen. That Thursday night lineup on NBC was something else. It went from Community to Parks and Recreation to The Office to 30 Rock. That’s four all-timer comedies operating in their primes in one two-hour block, on network television. That’s… crazy.

Let’s all watch “Modern Warfare” again this weekend. You have 25 minutes. Don’t lie to me.

ITEM NUMBER FIVE – Movies used to be good

The tweet above explains everything pretty well. I’m not sure any words I type here will or even can add any value to it. I’m going to try anyway, but if you watch that and don’t want to risk anything, feel free to skip this section.

Okay, still with me? Cool. This clip is indeed from a movie titled Live Wire that came out three years before Pierce Brosnan landed the role of James Bond. And it does feature a soaking-wet Pierce Brosnan loading a clown into a wheelchair and rushing him out of a crowd of people and pushing him into some sort of carnival stand that then turns to rubble when the clown explodes. Which is kind of awesome. And if you are anything like me, you immediately Googled “live wire pierce brosnan” to find out everything about this movie.

Here is the official description of the 1992 movie Live Wire.

After a politician dies, seemingly of spontaneous combustion, explosives expert Danny O’Neill (Pierce Brosnan) is called in to investigate. O’Neill and his team have to work under Sen. Frank Traveres (Ron Silver), but the two have a troubled history since the government official is sleeping with the agent’s estranged wife. Soon Traveres becomes a target of the mysterious assassins, and O’Neill discovers that they are using an ingested liquid explosive to kill their victims.

I did not know this movie existed as recently as last week and now I am *thisclose* to renting out an entire movie theater and screening it for anyone who wants to come hang out and watch it. I’ll sit by myself in an otherwise empty theater and watch it if none of you show up. That would be fine with me, too. But I really do need to see this movie now. I am not joking. It’s a borderline personality flaw I have. I feel okay about it.

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From Sarah:

What’s a line of dialogue from a TV show that is still stuck in your head today years later? I have a bunch. Most of them are Nick Miller quotes from New Girl. . “I know this isn’t gonna end well, but the middle part is gonna be awesome.” “The sky’s too fickle. It’s a play-place for butterflies.” “You can go to my funeral but you can’t talk. My funeral is my time to shine.” “You treat an outside wound with rubbing alcohol. You treat an inside wound with drinking alcohol.” There are so many. I’ve got to assume you have at least one good one. Maybe even another Nick Miller quote.

Well, this email sent me back down a Nick Miller rabbit hole for about an hour, which was lovely. What a beautiful soul. An unshaven philosophical giant. I would go to a seminar he ran if I thought for one second he could actually organize a seminar.

I’m going to throw a curve here, though, in part because you already took my favorite Nick Miller (the middle part one) and in part because it’s been in my head a lot lately. We go to another rugged philosopher, Kentucky lawman Raylan Givens from Justified, who said, “You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.”

I’ve mentioned this quote before, a few times, at least once or twice in this very Friday-based column. There’s a simple reason for that: I really like it. It’s a good way to check yourself after a tough day, or even in the middle of one if you can muster the self-awareness. “Was everyone being a jerk to me or I was just putting out crappy vibes they were responding to?” is a solid thing to ask yourself sometimes. Raylan didn’t always get things right. I would not recommend shooting at people as often as he did, or at all, ever, if possible. But on this one, the man definitely had a point.

AND NOW, THE NEWS

To Ireland!

The prestigious global body that governs Irish dancing has been rocked by allegations of competition fixing and cheating.

Shoot it straight into my veins.

An Coimisiun Le Rinci Gaelacha (CLRG) is dealing with its largest ever alleged cheating scandal, which has seen some of the most successful and well regarded Irish dance teachers and schools accused of fixing competitions for their own students.

For those keeping score, we now have active cheating scandals in:

• Competitive chess
• Fishing
• Poker
• Irish dancing

I’m in heaven. I hope darts is next. Or bowling. Or Ultimate Frisbee. Any of the non-traditional sports, really. Just so this keeps going. Show me a cornhole controversy that goes all the way to city hall. This is, in a nutshell, exactly what I am about.

It is understood that screenshots of text conversations showing 12 Irish dance teachers either asking for, or offering to, fix competitions were handed over to the CLRG in July.

Separately the Irish Independent has seen more screenshots, which have not yet been shared with the CLRG, which appear to implicate at least another six teachers.

EIGHTEEN TEACHERS

THAT’S WHAT TWELVE PLUS SIX IS, RIGHT?

[opens calculator]

IT IS

THAT IS SO MANY IRISH DANCE TEACHERS

I DON’T EVEN KNOW ONE IRISH DANCE TEACHER

EIGHTEEN

The CLRG said that due to the “potential extent” of the allegations, it had hired a former Court of Appeal judge “to oversee and supervise the immediate investigation into these matters. They will have full and open access to the resources and records of CLRG”.

I love that they brought in a real retired judge to handle this. The man went to law school. He probably presided over murder trials. He’s probably had to send people to prison even though he didn’t want to and then try to go to sleep at night. And now he’s being called in because the Irish dance community couldn’t police itself. What a life. Make a television show about this entire thing and let Liam Neeson play the judge. Get the mob involved somehow. Let the Dropkick Murphys do the theme song.

These are good ideas.

Despite coming from different parts of Los Angeles County — and, let’s face it, different affiliations within the area’s longstanding gang culture — Compton rapper the Game and Crenshaw rapper Nipsey Hussle shared a close friendship throughout their respective careers until Nipsey’s unfortunate death in March 2019. In the latest episode of Fresh Pair, hosts Just Blaze and Katty Customs ask Game about his favorite memory of the late (segment starts at 27:49), great Hussle. His answer is deeply affecting and sort of heartbreaking, as he recalls the last conversation he had with Nipsey, which incidentally touched on the dangers of sticking too close to their shared roots.

“I was just telling him that…’You don’t have to be on Crenshaw and Slauson all the time,” Game says, referring to the location of Nipsey’s Marathon Clothing store, where the rapper was gunned down while offering some new clothes to an acquaintance who recently got out of jail. “I made this reference to Louis Vuitton,” Game continues, “When you go buy your girl a Louis Vuitton bag, the n**** that owns Louis Vuitton is not behind the register handing you the product. Once you build an empire, you can relax a little bit. It’s cool to check in, but it’s dangerous to be that accessible.”

Unfortunately, Game’s words proved to be prophetic. However, the sad circumstances also underlined Nip’s commitment to giving back to the community. While Game takes care to note that it’s “not about turning your back on the hood,” it’s clear that Hussle wanted to remain available to anyone who needed him.

Fiona Apple is featured as a surprise singer in the finale of The Rings Of Power — a TV Lord Of The Rings prequel. The episode, which will premiere next week, includes a new song “Where The Shadows Lie” and has Apple as the lead vocalist. The track was written by the show’s composer Bear McCreary and produced by him, Apple, and Andrew Slater. For engineering, Jason LaRocca and David Way worked together.

“Where The Shadows Lie” was teased in the series’ first episode, only just as an instrumental. When Apple’s full version is released, it seems like a full-circle fitting conclusion to this new season. Lyrically, it was a J.R.R. Tolkien poem that “was composed by the Free Peoples of Middle Earth about the origins of the Rings of Power and their relationship under the power of the One Ring,” according to a press release (via BrooklynVegan).

“To embody all these narrative elements into one voice is no small task, and so I am especially grateful to have collaborated with legendary singer Fiona Apple,” McCreary said. “Inarguably one of the definitive musical voices of her generation, Fiona brought new depths and narrative intention to the song’s unique combination of my haunting melody and Tolkien’s ominous text. I have been inspired by her musicality for two decades, and I could not imagine an artist better suited to bring to life the mystery, majesty, and power of this song.”

Listen to Apple’s “Where The Shadows Lie” on Apple Music or Amazon Music.

Two of regional Mexican music’s rising acts have joined forces. In the music video for “Inseperables” that was released today (October 7), Mexican-American group Yahritza y Su Esencia teamed up with singer Ivan Cornejo.

Back in April, Yahritza y Su Esencia made history on the Billboard Hot 100 chart when lead the group’s lead singer became the youngest Latin performer to appear on the chart: Yahritza Martínez was 15 years old when the band’s breakthrough single “Soy El Unico” debuted at No. 20. Since then, the song has amassed over 84 million streams.

For “Inseperables,” Yahritza y Su Esencia enlisted fellow Mexican-American singer Cornejo to the feature on the track. Martínez’s brothers and bandmates, Mando and Jairo, back the teen duo with a fiery sierreño sound. Martínez and Cornejo trade heartbreaking verses about missing their lovers. Martínez’s soulful voice sounds beyond her years while Cornejo complements her well with his alternative edge. The video for “Inseperables” was shot in downtown LA. When Martínez is not cruising around the city with her brothers, she’s performing the song with Cornejo on a rooftop that overlooks the area.

Yahritza y Su Esencia is nominated for two Latin Grammy Awards. The band’s nominations include Best New Artist and Best Norteño Album for the Obsessed EP. Last year, Cornejo teamed up with reggaeton star Jhayco for a remix of his hit “Esta Dañada.” That song’s success pushed him ahead of Bad Bunny to No. 1 on the Latin Songwriters chart. Cornejo is now starring in the latest Beats By Dre campaign.

Mila Kunis just confirmed a massive rumor about That ’70s Show. While promoting her new film, Luckiest Girl Alive, Kunis came clean about how she landed the role of Jackie Burkhart in the classic sitcom. As everyone knows by now, Kunis was the youngest member of the cast by several years, and there’s a reason for that.

“There’s a rumor going around that I may or may not have lied about my age,” Kunis confessed to Vanity Fair. “I’d like to make it very clear now that I did lie. I did.”

According to Kunis, she claimed to be 18 to get her foot in the door. However, once it came time to sign a contract, she had to tell the truth to That ’70s Show creators Bonnie and Terry Turner in order to lock down an on-set teacher because she was still in school. Fortunately, they weren’t too bothered by the revelation because they already loved what Kunis brought to the part. As for the rest of the cast, no one gave her any problems about her real age.

Via Variety:

“It was in the heyday of older kids playing younger kids and I was actually of the age of the character,” Kunis added. “I was never treated as lesser then. If I did by one of the cast members another cast member would stand up for it. The reason I don’t do drugs was because nobody on the set did. And I looked up to them at 14. The trajectory of my career could’ve gone any which way… but the set was cool.”

Kunis is set to reprise her role as Jackie when the spinoff series, That ’90s Show, hits Netflix sometime in late 2022 or early 2023. Although, she’s not too thrilled about Jackie being married to her real life husband, Ashton Kutcher, in the new show. Granted, their characters dated during early episodes of That ’70s Show, but by the end, they had gone in wildly different directions.

“You know what, I called BS,” Kunis told Access Hollywood. “I was like, ‘My character would be with Fez.’ I think that I ended up with Wilmer’s character. And I was like, ‘Why are you and I together?’”

(Via Vanity Fair)

(For You)r Consideration is a weekly column breaking down the rappers and singers doing it RIGHT on TikTok and the viral TikTok music trends and top songs taking over your FYP.

What Did Monaleo Say?

An interesting line from Monaleo‘s “Faneto Freestyle,” is trending on the app. The Houston rapper plainly expressed that she has a no-tolerance policy for non-Black romantic partners reciting racial slurs. See the videos below for the NSFW lyrics. Although potentially controversial, creators are making fun of how popular TikTok dancer, Charli D’Amelio, would choreograph the lyrics and how they think the track’s producer reacted to Monaleo in the booth. The best video to come out of the sound? A Howard University student uses the bar to express their feelings after taking an Afro-American Studies class. Above all, Monaleo delivered on her freestyle over a Chief Keef classic.

“Ascension”

TikTokers are having a ball with Maxwell’s crooning at the start of his 1996 hit “Ascension.” Fans aren’t only appreciating how the song’s intro instantly turns them into a 48-year-old auntie but are using the neo-soul artist’s seven seconds of harmonizing as background for some relatable skits. According to TikTok user @nonipseysamehussle, he immediately channels Maxwell after taking the first sip of a McDonald’s Sprite. With less than 1000 videos made to the sound, creators should jump on the trend early as it continues to rise in popularity.

“Spread Thin” & Oversharing

A semi-chipmunked version of Mariah The Scientist’s “Spread Thin” is the soundtrack behind hundreds of videos where creators share the struggles they’ve been through this year. From breakups to makeups, fitness journeys, and everything in between, critiques of the trend have popped up, pointing to how much creators are (over)sharing and potentially trauma dumping on the app. One TikToker made fun of the trend, saying that shared content would be good material for Tyler Perry’s next movie. And Mariah the Scientist herself weighed in on the antics, tweeting how her version of the trend would be utterly embarrassing. Catch up below.

Wake Up, No Stylist

ATL’s Destroy Lonely is not only next up in hip-hop but also talking over the FYP. The 21-year-old recently released his debut mixtape, No Stylist, under fellow ATL rapper Playboi Carti’s Opium label. The title track is a favorite for the baddies and fashionistas of TikTok. Creators use the sound to show love to their favorite and full-proof outfit combos (think little shirt and big pants) and under GRWM and OOTD-style videos. “No Stylist” already has just under fifteen thousand videos associated with the track, but it’s a full-proof way to get eyes on fashion-adjacent content.