When MKP first met Ashton Kutcher just under a year ago, he was on a whirlwind promotional tour for Just Married and obviously wasn't quite used to the media attention. Hyperactive and fidgety but wildly entertaining, he happily spilled the beans on his then girlfriend Brittany Murphy. A year later, he's traded Brittany in for older model, Demi, and although the trademark grin still makes a regular appearance, he's far more guarded than the Ashton of old. They're a fickle lot this movie-star bunch!
Was making The Butterfly Effect a deliberate choice to get away from your comedy image?
No. It was a deliberate choice to do something new. I always want to keep doing new different things and stuff I haven't done before. It was a deliberate decision to challenge myself. Honestly, it was a movie that was a dramatic movie. I appreciated the character. I appreciated the metaphor of the story; I appreciated the message of the movie. Can you identify with your character? In certain respects, yes. I think in terms of being a person who has a great deal to overcome and a great amount of love to give. I really think love is the common denominator. In society we choose to black out the traumatic things that happen in this world whether it be child molestation or something else as horrific. There is a brothel halfway across the world in a country where they are prostituting out five year-old girls; do we want to face that as a society? Do we want to acknowledge that that exists? No we don't.
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