Ashton Kutcher says the concept for his new movie, “Guess Who,” started with P. Diddy.
“The idea really came from when I was spending time with Sean Combs and people couldn’t figure out why the two of us were hanging out together,” Kutcher says in the April issue of Interview magazine. “They really couldn’t look past the race line.”
“Guess Who,” which debuted at No. 1 at the box office last weekend, is a remake of the 1967 classic “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” In the present incarnation, many of the characters’ races have been flipped. Kutcher plays Sidney Poitier’s role and Bernie Mac is a version of Spencer Tracy.
“In certain places in the United States I really think that people aren’t just looking at people as people,” says Kutcher. “So I did this movie with the hope of changing people’s minds.”
In the magazine’s style of entertainers conversing with each other, Kutcher was interviewed by Brad Pitt. Pitt, no stranger to tabloid gossip himself, didn’t much press Kutcher on rumors that his girlfriend, Demi Moore, is pregnant.
Pitt’s questions ran more along the lines of “What do you feel is our responsibility — doing something good or doing something for an audience?”
Kutcher replied: “The things that really make me feel good are the pieces of work I do that give somebody some enlightenment, whether it’s through laughing or whatever.”
But the 27-year-old actor did say he and Moore, 42, were soon moving into a newly remodeled house, leading to some conflicting decorating plans.
“I come in with, ‘Wait a second — we need four plasma TVs on this wall for football, so I can watch all the games at one time,’ then she figures out how to make that look good.”
Kutcher hosts the MTV prank show, “Punk’d,” and co-stars in the Fox sitcom “That ‘70s Show.” He will star alongside Amanda Peet in the upcoming movie “A Lot Like Love.”