A month ago, Sgt. Scott Moore, a US Marine stationed in Afghanistan, posted a video on YouTube in which he asks hot-actress-of-the-moment Mila Kunis to be his date to the Marine Corps Ball this November…and she actually said yes. Which pisses me off, since I’ve asked out about 320 celebrities over the last year and have literally never gotten a response, this guy posts a 19 second video and scores on the first try. Whatever dude. Beginners luck, the wind, a disinterested and arbitrary universe, something intervened.
Anyway, continuing the story.
Over the weekend, Kunis was doing an interview with her Friends With Benefits costar Justin Timberlake and he mentioned the video and urged her to go:
“Have you seen this? Have you heard about this? You need to do it for your country,” Timberlake asked Kunis excitedly, before sending out a direct message to Moore. “I’m going to work on this, man. This needs to go down.”
After questioning her publicist if she knew about the invitation, the clearly flattered 27-year-old actress agreed.
“I’ll go, I’ll do it for you,” she said, turning to Timberlake. “Are you going to come?”
“They don’t want me! They want you,” Timberlake responded. “You need to do it for your country.”
Kunis nodded.
“I’ll do it,” she confirmed.
So that’s fun! I mean, it could be really awkward and her presence might detract from from the point of the evening, to celebrate Marines, but whatever! She is supporting the troops! Nice feelings!
What I’m most worried about is this leading to America’s new favorite pastime: guilting celebrities into doing things they probably wouldn’t want to do but have to because it’d be bad publicity if they said no. I can’t wait for a public proposal by a soldier-dying-of-cancer who wants Amy Adams to suck him off.
