Almost every fan of Hollywood romantic comedies – or rom-coms for short – has probably noticed how much the scenarios of this genre often resemble each other. Because the films that are considered so formulaic almost always follow special patterns, at the end of which there is of course a happy ending full of love. Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher (44, “Two and a Half Men”) now has his former co-star Natalie Portman (41) from the RomCom “Friendship Plus” in a new edition of his marathon training series “Our Future Selves”. to guest. On the treadmill, Kutcher then blurted out a big confession.
The star explained that his 2011 romantic comedy ‘Friendship Plus’ is ‘basically’ the same movie as ‘Friends With Benefits’, also released in 2011. In “Friendship Plus,” Kutcher and Portman play good friends who decide to pursue an exclusively sexual relationship. In “Friends With Benefits,” Justin Timberlake (41) and Kutcher’s future wife Mila Kunis (39) embody two friends who begin an exclusively sexual relationship. In both films, one of the main characters then develops feelings for his “sex-only” partner in a way that is as romantic as it is inevitable.
Strangely enough, “Freundschaft Plus” and “Freunde mit Vorteilen” (Friends with certain advantages), which started exactly six months later, also achieved roughly the same box office revenue of almost 150 million US dollars at the worldwide box office. Actress Kunis also stated a few years ago that she and her future husband Kutcher began to reenact the plot of their mentioned RomComs after his separation from Demi Moore (59). “I was making a film called Friends With Benefits. He was making a very similar film called Friendship Plus. We lived out our films. We were like, Let’s have sex. Let’s have fun. We were both single,” Kunis revealed on the 2018 podcast WTF with Marc Maron.
