Ashton Kutcher, maybe best known for making millions of people laugh with his show, Punk’d, shares his more serious side with ABC News “Nightline” with Cynthia McFadden tonight, Thursday May 13th at 11:35 p.m. During his candid interview he opens up about how he is coping with the tragic and untimely death of ex-girlfriend Brittany Murphy. He also talks being a family man with wife Demi Moore, his take on being included in the Time 100 list (for the most influential people on the planet and more. Here are some excerpts from the exclusive interview courtesy of ABC News Nightline…
On Dealing With The Loss Of A Close Friend:
“I just celebrate who [Murphy] was. She was like the person who walked in the room and she was always the first person to dance. You know when you go to a party and everybody is standing around, and the music is going — and you know sooner or later everyone is going to dance. She was always the first person to dance. And I just try to connect to that and celebrate who she was and how she was, and not make sense of it, ’cause there is no sense of making sense of it”.
On Raising Kids With Demi Moore:
“There is something attractive about our third girl gaining some independence. I get to walk the dogs in the morning because she can drive herself to school now, there is a level of independence that we’ve never had since our relationship started, and an ability to spend time together doing things that we might want to take advantage of. Because in our relationship we’ve always had kids. So we have always had that”.
McFadden asks if Moore’s (47) biological clock was ticking. Kutcher responds, “I think my wife is a genetic freak… I’m not worried.”
On Keeping A Gun Under His Bed:
To promote his new film ‘Killers’, out June 4th, Kutcher created a viral video of himself loading a gun and pointing it to the camera, and sending it off to Chat Roulette, a website that pairs up strangers for video chats.
“I was a little worried I’d actually shoot my screen. I don’t have dummy bullets at home,” he says.
McFadden asked Kutcher about the gun.
“It’s my gun from under my bed, you have to have a gun under your bed…I don’t have security.”
On His Twin Brother’s Health Problem:
“It doesn’t seem fair, like it doesn’t seem right…It seems like the game is set up differently for certain people – and it is.”
Kutcher’s brother was born with cerebral palsy and a heart defect.
“I just didn’t think it was fair what was happening. So I knew there had to be a blood type match, and he’s my twin. So the assumption would be that we would be a match — but that doesn’t all compute. We were fraternal twins. I started studying genetics right after that, and it doesn’t work that way.”
On Playing The Same Role:
“That’s what I knew how to do,” he explained. “That guy’s a little daft, lazy, getting by on his looks and not a whole lot else, and sweet, and likeable, blue-collar, that guy… funny sometimes. That’s what I knew how to play.”
On Balancing His Busy Life:
Kutcher has produced a dozen shows in the past five years and still has time to splurge on certain luxuries.
“Neither Demi or I cook. I have someone that cooks for me… that’s the best thing ever. I just want to show up and I want my house to be like a hotel… so I want to have a couple of options. … I like to have a couple of options.”
Kutcher’s company, Katalyst, produces TV, film, and digital content to a key demographic that gives companies exposure while inspiring social goodness.
“[It] can’t just be about dog food, can’t just be about a soda,” said Kutcher. “It has to be about what are you, as a company, doing to spread light and love into the world.”
Kutcher even tries explaining on how he is a normal guy compared to a hollywood A-Lister.
“But you are not a normal guy,” said McFadden.
“I am,” said Kutcher, “indeed I am. And I will fight to be that. I want to go fishing…”
See more of this exclusive interview With Ashton Kutcher and Cynthia McFadden on ABC News ‘Nightline’ which airs Thursday, May 13th, 2010 at 11:35 p.m. (ET/PT).
‘Nightline’ is anchored by Cynthia McFadden, Terry Moran, Martin Bashir and James Goldston as executive producer. ‘Nightline’ airs on Thursdays 11:35 p.m. (ET/PT) on the ABC television network.
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