In the video, they are wearing T-shirts, looking unkempt. Maybe a consultant from a crisis PR firm told them it would be a bad look to appear on camera in the expensive getups they usually don for public appearances; maybe they just didn’t think that the task warranted a shower. Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, married actors, sit before a wood-paneled background that might be a backyard fence, or the outer wall of a pool house. They are there to address the letters they recently wrote to a Los Angeles court, attesting to the good character of their friend Danny Masterson.
Kutcher and Kunis were posting the video – well, not to apologize, exactly, since they didn’t. But perhaps to clean up the mess of bad publicity that had resulted from the letters. Masterson, Kutcher and Kunis’s co-star from That ’70s Show, is now a convicted serial rapist; the letters were meant to convince the judge that he was somehow also a good person, one who did not deserve severe punishment. The clip, which appeared on Instagram, featured the couple speaking from a script. Their faces were fixed in uncannily still emotionlessness. “We support victims,” Kunis said to the camera, her eyes steely and her voice containing no conviction.
