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Home>Entertainment
Updated 22:01 8 Jun 2023 GMT+1Published 21:07 8 Jun 2023 GMT+1

Natalie Portman finds it 'totally weird' that she and Ashton Kutcher made 'exact same movie' as Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake

Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman have both admitted that they 'basically' made the same rom-com as Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake.

Anish Vij

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Updated 22:01 8 Jun 2023 GMT+1Published 21:07 8 Jun 2023 GMT+1

Natalie Portman finds it 'totally weird' that she and Ashton Kutcher made 'exact same movie' as Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake

Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman have both admitted that they 'basically' made the same rom-com as Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake.

Anish Vij

Anish Vij

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Natalie Portman has admitted how 'totally weird' it was that she and Ashton Kutcher made the 'exact same movie' as Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake.

2011 was the year of two very similar rom coms - Friends with Benefits (starring Timberlake and Kunis) and No Strings Attached (Kutcher and Portman).

Friends with Benefits follows Jamie (Kunis), a New York-based headhunter, who gets Dylan (Timberlake) to take a job at GQ.

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They soon become friends, but things get very complicated after they decide to add sex to their relationship.

And No Strings Attached sees lifelong friends Emma (Portman) and Adam (Kutcher) take their relationship to the next level by - guess what - having sex. Then things get very complicated.

Sound similar?

And it seems as though Portman also shares a similar thought.

Natalie Portman has admitted how 'totally weird' it was that she and Ashton Kutcher made the 'exact same movie' as Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake.
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In an video with GQ where the actor goes 'undercover' on social media, Portman saw a question by a fan on Twitter, which said: "Does anyone else ever think about how weird it is that Ashton Kutcher who is married to Mila Kunis did No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman the same year Mila Kunis did Friends With Benefits with Justin Timberlake?

"The movies had the same basic premise. How is it not weird?"

To which the 41-year-old actor replied: "It's weird. It's totally weird. Correct."

And this isn't the first time the Thor star has addressed the similarities.

Friends with Benefits was also very similar plot-wise.
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In 2022, Portman joined her co-star, Kutcher, as a part of his marathon training series, 'Our Future Selves', with Peloton.

As the pair jogged alongside one another, they finally addressed the striking similarities between the two films.

"I think the first time we really started hanging out is when we shot No Strings together," Kutcher said.

"Who would've thought 20 years later, we'd be on a Peloton together?" Portman responded.

"Wait, it's also weird because my wife [Mila Kunis] was shooting basically the same movie, called Friends With Benefits," Kutcher then pointed out.

Both Kutcher and Portman have made references to the films being similar before.
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Both films proved successful, earning $149 million each worldwide.

Kutcher and Kunis later tied the knot in real life, after previously having had an on-screen relationship in That 70's Show.

However, the connections don't stop there.

Portman also reminded Kutcher that she and Kunis had just finished filming Black Swan together at the time, in which their characters were entangled in knotty sexual drama.

"Yes, and Mila and I had just shot Black Swan together right before," Portman added.

"So we were all making out with each other."

I mean, that's one way to put it.

Featured Image Credit: Paramount Pictures / Sony Pictures

Topics: Celebrity, TV and Film, Justin Timberlake

Anish Vij
Anish Vij

Anish is a Journalist at LADbible Group and is a GG2 Young Journalist of the Year 2025. He has a Master's degree in Multimedia Journalism and a Bachelor's degree in International Business Management. Apart from that, his life revolves around the ‘Four F’s’ - family, friends, football and food. Email: [email protected]

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