Four Good Days’ Mila Kunis at Sundance premiere explains movie isn’t about ‘fetishizing drugs’ or ‘shaming’
Actor Mila Kunis’s addiction drama ‘Four Good Days’, based on Eli Saslow’s critically-acclaimed piece ‘How’s Amanda?’ on Washington Post, has received much praise.
Written, produced and directed by Rodrigo Garcia, the fact-based drama follows Deb (Glenn Close), an addict. When her daughter Molly (Kunis) shows up on her doorstep, Deb is both angry and terrified. Despite multiple attempts to get clean over the years, Molly eventually convinces her mother that she is ready for one more attempt. And then, both Deb and Molly go through four excruciating days of recovery.
Speaking to MEA WorldWide (MEAWW) at the world premiere of ‘Four Good Days’ at the Sundance Film Festival 2020, Kunis talked about how active the set life was, and her role as a woman in a family dealing with drug addiction issues.
Recounting fun incidents from the set, she said, “Keep in mind, Rodrigo [Garcia], when there were ten-minute breaks to change the lighting, whoever wanted to do planks -- and so there were competitions for whoever could hold the planks the longest. Glen Close did win.”
“Planking” is a kind of core strength exercise that involves maintaining a position similar to a push-up for the maximum possible time. “There were like push-up competitions,” added Kunis. “The whole set was a very lively, active fun set.”
Talking about the film, the 36-year-old actor said, “I think that the macro story of this family, this part of life that they have to deal with on a constant basis -- it’s not a story about fetishizing drugs, or criminalizing them, or shaming you about it. It’s none of that.”
“It’s just the real-life story about a mother-daughter, based on an article, and their journey in those four days,” she said. “Eli, who wrote the article, was with them. So it’s just depicting a very hard time in a family.”
‘Four Good Days’ that premiered at Sundance on January 25 and is based on the true story of Amanda Wendler and Libby Alexander.