Mila Kunis told 'she'd never work again' when she wouldn’t pose semi-naked

Mila Kunis has said that she was threatened with her career being ended when she refused to pose semi-naked in a magazine to help promote a film she was appearing in.

Though she’s not naming names, the actress says she was warned ‘you’ll never work in this town again’ following her decision not to take part in the photoshoot.

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Kunis revealed the incident in an open letter on the A Plus website, which was co-founded by her husband Ashton Kutcher.

“’You’ll never work in this town again’. A cliché to be sure, but also what a producer threatened when I refused to pose semi-naked on the cover of a men’s magazine to promote our film.

“I was no longer willing to subject myself to a naïve compromise that I had previously been willing to. ‘I will never work in this town again?’ I was livid, I felt objectified, and for the first time in my career I said ‘no’.

“And guess what? The world didn’t end. The film made a lot of money and I did work in this town again, and again, and again. What this producer may never realize is that he spoke aloud the exact fear every woman feels when confronted with gender bias in the workplace.

“Throughout my career, there have been moments when I have been insulted, sidelined, paid less, creatively ignored, and otherwise diminished based on my gender.

“I taught myself that to succeed as a woman in this industry I had to play by the rules of the boys’ club. But the older I got and the longer I worked in this industry, the more I realised that it’s bull***! And, worse, that I was complicit in allowing it to happen.”

She added that she was also referred to as ‘soon to be Ashton’s wife and baby momma’ by another ‘influential male producer’ during another meeting about a separate project.

“He reduced my value to nothing more than my relationship to a successful man and my ability to bear children,” she writes.

However, Kunis has had enough, adding: “I’m done compromising; even more so, I’m done with being compromised. So from this point forward, when I am confronted with one of these comments, subtle or overt, I will address them head on; I will stop in the moment and do my best to educate.

“If this is happening to me, it is happening more aggressively to women everywhere. I am fortunate that I have reached a place that I can stop compromising and stand my ground, without fearing how I will put food on my table. I am also fortunate that I have the platform to talk about this experience in the hope of bringing one more voice to the conversation so that women in the workplace feel a little less alone and more able to push back for themselves.

“I will work in this town again, but I will not work with you.”