Mila Kunis Reveals the One Parenting Rule She and Ashton Kutcher Swear By

Mila Kunis is not trying to rack up credits right now. In a new Extra TV chat, she laid out the very un-Hollywood way she and Ashton Kutcher run their house: one of them works, the other is on kid duty, and she keeps her film output to a slow drip.

The gist

• Kunis confirmed she aims for one movie a year so she can actually be around her kids.
• She and Kutcher do not work at the same time — they alternate so someone is always home.
• They plan around the school calendar. If the kids are in class, she picks her spots carefully.
• She will bend the rule if a job stays in Los Angeles — which is the case for her next project, filming in January.

What she said on Extra TV

The interviewer brought up that she does one film a year. Kunis said that is true, and when asked why, she deadpanned:

"Yeah, those damn kids."

Jokes aside, she was clear she knows she is lucky to be able to choose her schedule and does not take it for granted.

She also described the non-overlap policy she and Kutcher stick to, which she called a strict agreement:

"We tag team in and out, but neither one of us is ever absent."

How their setup actually works

Here is the practical version, minus the fuzzy phrasing you sometimes get in quick interviews: they rotate jobs so their calendars do not collide, and they try not to be on set while the kids are in school. If a role shoots locally, that is the exception — she can tuck in a project without leaving town. Her next gig starts in January in Los Angeles, so that fits their plan.

The family context

Kunis, 42, and Kutcher married in 2015 and have two kids: Wyatt, 11, and Dimitri, 9. This is not a new stance for her either — she has told PEOPLE before that she works when the kids are not in school and that she genuinely loves the whole parenting process. Kutcher has been just as open about where his head is at; in a 2023 E! News interview he called being a husband and dad his dream role and went full proud-dad about how much he loves his family.

It is a simple system, but for two actors juggling school schedules and shoot calendars, it is also the kind of behind-the-scenes planning you do not hear about unless someone spells it out on camera.