After having time to adjust to life in America, Mila Kunis turned into a more outgoing child, and, by the age of 9, she asked her parents about taking acting classes. “My parents wanted me to go and mix with other kids, but the class cost $900. My parents had $2,400 in the bank account, and we couldn’t afford it,” she told The Telegraph. “But my mum took out the chequebook and signed the cheque. She said, ‘I don’t know why I am doing this,’ and walked away. I gave the cheque to the instructor.”
In that first acting class, Kunis met the woman who would become her manager. Kunis told the magazine American Way, “My parents told her, ‘Listen, we can’t afford head shots; we can’t afford anything. We can’t take her to auditions because we work full-time. And we can’t do this and we can’t do that.’ For one reason or another, being the crazy woman that she is, [my manager] said, ‘Don’t worry. I’ll fix everything.’”