The Appeal of Playing ‘Oliver’: “I think that the appeal of Oliver is that he's relatable. I think that guys in general feel like they have to attain a certain personal status in their mind before they can be in a relationship. Like, 'I'm not who I am yet. But I'm going to be who I am as soon as I get this and this and this. Then I don't have to worry about trading up.' It's like, 'Right now I'm at this level and so I can get this kind of girl. And then when I get here I'm going to trade up and so why even go through it. Just wait until I get there.' The truth is that you're never there, but you're always there. I think that's a very relatable place for guys.”
Casting Amanda Peet: “We read one other actress and the chemistry wasn't just right. We were searching for the right person. We wanted someone who had the combination to be vulnerable, but also to be funny. I've seen Amanda and she's really, really funny. She's beautiful and funny and able to be vulnerable.”
Was Being Nude Just Another Day on the Set?: “I like being nude as often I can. [Laughing] As much as I can be nude, I try to be nude. No. It's really not that great for me. For other people, I like them being nude, but not me so much. It's this awkward thing and you're completely exposed. I had this banana thong with like a catcher's mitt to wear. It was a little awkward.”
“A Lot Like Love” co-star Amanda Peet says it was about halfway through the shoot when they had to do their nude scene. Despite having had time to get to know each other, Kutcher says he still wasn’t completely comfortable. “I think that we were both so insecure about ourselves that we weren't really looking at anyone else. We were on a soundstage and we weren't actually outside. So I think that kind of helped because it's a little bit more private,” admits Kutcher.
Ashton Kutcher on the Mile High Club: “I've done it in another movie. I don't know why, but for some reason people fancy me having sex in bathroom planes. So I was really comfortable with that.
I tried it once. I didn't actually get into the restroom. We were both sitting there and I got up and went over to there, and it was weird trying to get two people in there. And there was like a moron convention going on around the bathroom door. So there was no opportune moment. It was like, 'Everyone just go to sleep on the plane!' No one would go to sleep.”
Kutcher’s Reaction to His Director Comparing Him to Cary Grant: “I can't thank him enough for saying something that kind. I don't know. For me it's hard to say because I can't take an outside perspective of my career or my life because I just live it. I have no idea. Someone will find some other category to try to put me in. 'Well, it's still comedy and so it's not a different character. He's still just being funny.' People always want to shuffle you into some category no matter what you're doing.”
The Uniqueness of This Character: “Every character that I do I try to make different, but I'm just not successful most of the time. I think that every character is unique in its own way. I think that more so than the script told me that, I think that [director] Nigel [Cole] is like that. I mean, just watch 'Calendar Girls' and looking at what he did in that. I think that knowing that I was working with people who had more experience and experience in a different way and better than I am, your game rises. It gets elevated to everyone else's.”
That Crazy Little Thing Called Love: “Boy, have I done some things. I don't if I've done things that have been crazy or absurd. I think that I've put some great effort into certain situations to impress. But I wouldn't call any of that crazy because I think that those are like the greatest things that we get to do in life.
For me, one of the craziest things was that I was in Canada shooting a film and had started a relationship with someone, a long distance one with someone back in the states. I flew in to Los Angeles for 30 minutes to see a person and then flew back out to Canada. I had a 30-minute window where I could see them - and they weren't there. They showed up with about 15 minutes to go. And then I had my 15 minutes and I was gone.”
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