Mila Kunis who is to shortly to appear on-screen in the new movie Max Payne, on big screens in India this Friday , says she can lapse intoflawless Russian.
But the 25-year-old beauty didn't spend hours slaving away with a dialogue coach to master the native tongue of her character, Slavic assassin Mona Sax. Kunis can actually speak the language -- she spent the first seven years of her life in the Ukrainian city of Kiev before moving to Los Angeles in 1991.
"It was right at the fall [of the Soviet Union.] It was very communist, and my parents wanted my brother and me to have a future, and so they just dropped everything. They came with $250." Says Kunis.
Kunis' father did odd jobs -- painting houses, installing toilets and delivering pizza -- while her mother worked in the back room of a Thrifty drugstore. "Ultimately, I adjusted fairly quickly and fairly well," she says. "But it must have been hard, because I blocked out second grade completely. I have no recollection of it. I always talk to my mom and my grandma about it. It was because I cried every day. I didn't understand the culture. I didn't understand the people. I didn't understand the language. My first sentence of my essay to get into college was like, 'Imagine being blind and deaf at age seven.' And that's kind of what it felt like moving to the States. But I got over it pretty fast."
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