That 70s Show - Behind The Scenes Special (Mila Kunis, Danny Masterson, Topher Grace)

[Music] the thing that really makes this show sing is that it's completely timeless and it's not about the 70s at all it's a small town you know uh the mentality is different you know i mean it's there's nothing really exciting to do so the only thing you can do is hang out with each other we just have so much fun and we're just all really fortunate to be part of something like this i love it i absolutely i don't know what i'm gonna do when i don't have to wake up like at eight in the morning [Applause] [Music] action ah hold on come on go back isn't this amazing is it called mount hump because people come here to hump or people come here to hump because it's called mount hop it's like the chicken or the egg eric it's only called mountain hump because it's named after the explorer who braved the harsh elements of wisconsin to discover point place and that man's name was sir edmund hump well i didn't know that the show was going to be anything big when i first started because i didn't even know what it was for a show you know i didn't know that you know the majority of pilots that go out don't get picked up i didn't know anything about ratings or whatever i was just having a great time and i just moved out here from jersey and i'm like right i want to set him in california okay i had literally been cast out of a high school play i'd done like one or two high school plays so the beginning we were so fresh that we were actually stupid enough and naive enough to think that it would be a success not knowing that the odds of television pilots making it even to air is extremely low i had started working since i was four and um and actually i i was doing a show called sybil for the two years right before this and i'd done a bunch of other shows before that but i had decided i wasn't really going to do any more um half-hour shows but then i heard about this show that was created by the turner's ronnie terry who did third rock i mean i was a big fan of that show i was in between my junior and my senior year before i got the 70s show i got the 70s show between those two years of high school and and imagine having your own sitcom and coming back to you know to your senior year of high school it's definitely quite remarkable you know but i went through a lot of um a lot of problems um because my drama teacher that i had back in the day actually failed me in my drama class it was ironic she found me in my play production class having my own sitcom how do you do that the first script we read i was 14. so um for me was like look at all these cute boys i didn't like it it was nothing me being the cutest of course danny i was like oh he's so cute we came here for a reason now should i start a new watch or should i start and what's going on here what do you want to do just step into it well just step into it going back to the first table read the first rehearsal you know um those were some of the most petrifying things that any of us had to go through because when none of us knew each other we're testing the waters none of us really knew how to hit a mark you know and it was it was one of one of one of those things where you had to kind of learn all over again but the beautiful thing about is that we realized that very very early and we had each other to to kind of work through it you know and that was the great thing about it that if we if it wasn't because we had each other you know and grew up the way we did with each other you know um it'd be a whole different show maybe with jackie i was sort of impetuous and maybe a little rash let's see that's something that jack you ought to know hyde says that he was sort of infectious and he has a rash what that must be so humiliating fez your wife's on your honeymoon with another guy oh no no no carlos is just like um he's getting like like a chaperone he uh [Music] son of a i can't take it watching donna lie out knowing she's gonna go to college and i have to stay here she's so so juicy i'm not really sure why this show has been successful i'm not sure that there's one reason for it i think the second year i think we flew under the radar a little bit you know and people started to find us and and by the third year we had a really good base of people and i think it was about it was like six or seven million people a week and then when we went into syndication it just blew he does not weigh 42 pounds and these two are the best of buddies hey dad want to go fishing sure son let's hug that's what it's like in our house it's a show that is that's that at its heart you know it's a it's a character-driven show it's about you know uh you know it's about it's about a family and a family of friends and uh um you know i think that that has a universal appeal the thing that really makes this show sing is that it's completely timeless it's not about the 70s at all to me it isn't until friday night when we do the show that i actually feel like the 70s plays any part in it even though we're not in 76 anymore for me that was a really pivotal time to start off in because it was kind of this weird um time for america where um we were having a real identity crisis and it really played well to eric foreman because he's having a real identity crisis in this kind of tug of war between this girl next door who likes him he's really hot and his dad who he wants to impress he was really strict upstairs for your nap and erica needs quiet so no shenanigans mom please i haven't shenanigan in about six years i've hooliganed i have no good nicked i've never done well just yesterday i found myself rabble-rousing will you yeah i don't even think people are fascinated with the 70s i think it's um because we don't have that many i mean yeah we wear 70s clothes in our sets or 70s but people are more they relate with the relationships like you know me and eric people tell me all the time that they know of a relationship or they had a relationship with someone who lived next door or the girl next door who they were best friends they became boyfriend girlfriend what's cool is the kids relate to our relationships and people who grew up in the 70s they like watching the clothes and everything because they're like oh i had that and then they also relate to all the parents on the show so that's why our audience is really big a lot of parents and a lot of a lot of you know teachers and a lot of kids today you know just can't relate to it when it comes to the nostalgic feeling of being so free about certain subjects about what to wear what to listen to and there was so much variety of colorful things you know now you kind of narrow it down to cool and uncool you know over there it was like cool kind of cool really cool superfly now you have so many definitions of what cool is this is and it's thanks to the 70s [Music] hmm [Music] hello star inside i am mila kunis from that 70 show and you are on the set of that 70 show so i'll give you a little bit of a tour now this is kelsey's van um nothing very interesting in there this is the living room the foreman living room and here's some fun artifacts of the foremans um you got beautiful pictures over here now you move your way down here and you will see other pictures that are not so much the foremans anymore you got topher grace who plays eric with his real-life father and then you have the little mini eric those in the show then you have some random family we don't really know who these are but they make an appearance this is the second floor it doesn't really lead you anywhere as you can tell then you have a den that's very very rarely used with nuts because that's what you do in dens you eat nuts then you have the dining room and what happens a lot of times is this fourth wall comes out and they shoot in like this but when they do a 360 in the dining room this is where it happens essentially when you see people walk in this closet right here which is a closet it's actually the stairs to the downstairs basement where we all hang out now we're in the kitchen um this will be like cribs i will show you the refrigerator uh we have food would you imagine and the fridge actually works now i don't recommend you eating anything out of this fridge but it works you also have cheese grater lights which many people like to point out it doesn't happen very often and let me show you something that the deborah joe will kill me for revealing this never joe rules this kitchen everything's placed in this kitchen has been placed where she's set to be placed now when she gets a little lonely in the kitchen and reminds herself of a good time she does this then we make our way down from the kitchen to the driveway where you have a bunch of red's tools and a car this will be kelsey's new car you'll see an episode that's forthcoming why he has to have a new car and this will be his new car now you have the basement now the basement you have a tv that we usually watch now come on this side you can see this tv can't really see much we have these magazines that have been on this table for six years now they've changed slowly but overall they're the same exact magazines essentially what you could do is you walk up these stairs and you walk up another flight of stairs and you end up down here and you have um what's supposed to be a bathroom it's kind of cluttered and then this would be stephen's bedroom now when you walk in here's what you'd see not really steven's bedroom that's coming up next in a future episode um i redo steven's bedroom and so this is what the bedroom would look like in the future had i redone it but this is you know essentially his room and i think that's it so now i'm going to go lay down in my new and equipped stephen's bedroom and you guys are off back to canada peace out so it turns out that going away sex is even hotter than makeup sex it's like these chips they say now even crunchier and you're thinking oh man there is no way but then you take a bite and it is crunchy wisconsin was picked by our creators because it's it's kind of every town usa it's the middle of the country it's not we're not close to any major city so there's no hipster vibe going on there's no metropolis anything it's just literally the seventh basement it's just town it's a small town we hang out at the water tower we hang out at the diner i mean there's no like action going on in places there's not many things going on you have to use your imagination to you know entertain yourselves and that's fun to watch whether it's us in the basement or you know just hanging out cracking jokes and stuff we have nothing else to do so the relationships are way more intimate and more there's more of a dynamic there there's kind of a suburban um influence on this show and kind of what it is to grow up when you're kind of equidistant from every city this whole point of point place is that it's not close to anywhere so they have to figure out how to have fun doing nothing it's a small town you know the mentality is different you know i mean it's there's nothing really exciting to do so the only thing you can do is hang out with each other so what what you're gonna have is the opportunity to really listen to the characters instead of seeing them do things the more i think about leaving you the sadder i get and then the sadder i get the more i want to be with you right now now well yeah i mean our wardrobe people are awesome they actually won an emmy because of the wardrobe which is pretty dope which is why we can't really fight them if we don't like anything they're like look we want an emmy i never complained once about about outfits about wardrobe or anything like that because my character it's that one character can get away with literally wearing anything i have it pretty easy because i usually wear jeans and a t-shirt you know what i mean because i'm the tomboy i feel really bad for jackie because she used to wear all the little tight polyester stuff that's so itchy i love the wardrobe people i adore and i think that they do a fabulous job of putting outfits together it's not their fault that these outfits are so hideous it's just not and they're literally from the 70s they're 30 years old from like old basements of somebody's house they come in they clean it up and i'm forced to wear it and yeah but you look really hot well thanks danny i don't feel very hot in it i have to say like the waistband i don't know if you could see this is literally up to my like one third rib and like you know it's probably it's tight it's not flattering in my opinion i will tell you uh it does get annoying sometimes at the beginning of the year we'll have these costume fittings and um i will be really chaffed i mean it's like a lot of polyester you know and you're throwing on shirt after shirt for me personally style is not very important my style isn't that important to me you know what i mean but um i try you know when i have to rise to the occasion i try to everyone makes fun of me because like you know aston and wilmer and danny like on friday nights there were like suits to work and they have all their bling now and they're all like you know and i walk in wearing like the same stuff i've been wearing for like five years and they're like laura you gotta go shopping [Music] [Applause] this is not the one you're angry with you know jackie some people actually find me to be of normal height sure if they're green and jolly this whole thing with high and jackie's stupid i mean they both want to be together and they would in a second they just thought the other one had said i'm sorry don't wreak your face your ringtone i think our funniest shows are when it's just us like the kids and the parents because our audience relates to that and they think like they love seeing us in the basement in the foreman house you know the kids doing their thing the parents doing their stuff people love that my favorite scenes are when when the group is all together and especially the episodes where you get like 11 people in one scene you know donna's dad and you know tommy chong and you know you just and it's and you're firing on all cylinders my favorite scenes are when the six kids are together you know when we're all in the basement you know and um when we're on a boat trip but when we're on a road trip and we're all in camping you know those are my favorite scenes because our chemistry it's so much fun to explore my favorite scene's the ones around just with one other person always if it's just me and her it's just me and him that's his favorite yeah i mean doing scenes with her is awesome because you can do a lot more and you know the audience i understand would love watching all of us because they get everybody in one shot but you know pretty much those scenes are just one-liners coming from every direction which is great it's really fun in the roles but like with acting you know when you get to do a one-on-one scene it's a lot easier to get more real stuff out of it steven i'm here to tell you i've made my decision i choose you wow yeah i'm a good kisser third or fourth season is when it became um different strange being in public you know going to grab a coffee where before it didn't matter and now all of a sudden everybody's like so you're like what do i have is it on my face what the hell is going on he's living my teeth actually when we hit 100 episodes then i think i finally realized like oh my god we're there's gonna be like reruns of us on forever we just worked so hard you know to get the show to where it is today and now all of us in this cast you know are in a position where where we can say that we did this our shows back then were great because i think the whole new fresh thing of us just starting out we're all really nervous is as an element to it that's really fun and now we're just all you know very professional and we've grown into ourselves and now we have that whole new aspect of it which makes it even better i get recognized a little bit more it's hard for me because well not hard for me it's actually kind of lovely because i can go to the grocery store in a ponytail and sweatpants but without the wig people don't aren't really sure but as soon as i talk then oh my god are you kitty forming my heart i just thought i'd break the tension that's gonna come in handy okay no more fake heart attacks next time you clutch your chest you better see a bright light and some dead relatives i think we have like an amazing group here we don't lose anyone we got the same riders the same crew the same cast you know we have a really good cohesive group and everybody's really proud of what they do togo poor kelso's van i mean when it landed it didn't so much crash as completely separate into its basic elements and just returned to nature he was so sad its last word was me none of us are really high school age anymore but it doesn't even matter because we never shoot in the high school so it doesn't matter but um but we just call ourselves the kids you know everyone's completely grown if you look at shows from you know the first year we're almost like oh god what were you thinking you know what i mean like oh that's bad we worked really hard at the beginning we worked very hard now but we worked really hard at the beginning and it was a period in my life that i don't want to repeat you know you got to kind of push through that wall and just you know make it successful and so uh in a way i feel like we earned it being on a show and starting off with almost no experience and you know being able to go six or seven years it's like a great graduate school in acting one which is remember when i said that remember when i said that he could get decorated remember said that he could decorate his room with grass his shoes which means it's really cool that's right that's perfect this is perfect our director david traynor who's you know who's in my definition one of the most incredible directors in this industry you know he was he's the captain of a ship that you know has a crew that's willing to work with him you know and he's also willing to let the crew do their own personal jobs you know and giving us that freedom was was definitely really key when it comes to you know creating your own persona it's get good writing you know that's that's really what it's all about the show's good it's funny and and uh that's got good people i can only give him give the writers you know a lot of credit because they really give me some of the funniest things i've ever read they really letting me do what i really wanted to do with this character and they're letting me just run with it when it comes to creating the accent when it comes to creating his mannerisms when it comes to creating you know his way of delivering anything welcome home dad you you got a lot of nerve showing your face around here after what you did to my daughter hey i did you a favor that girl's been passed around this town it's tough to get a cast of i guess eight you know it'll vary from eight to twelve people but basically a core cast of eight people that's a huge ensemble and to get you know you everyone on the same page and all be speaking the same languages it's a challenge everyone knows each other so well obviously and we know everyone's timing and it just it's just like a really well-oiled machine it's just awesome and um you know the writers now if a joke doesn't work they know like okay that's out and it just makes the process a lot smoother where in the beginning we were all like freaked out all the time especially me i'm like a run through what's a run through when we're not in scenes with each other we kind of miss each other like laura will come up to me and like yesterday we were shooting we missed you whatever you know and it's hilarious you know but we really really learned to work with charles so much that that we kind of miss each other when we're not in those scenes but finally when we get the scene second explosion because everyone's cracking up everyone's messing around between takes and i'm the biggest clown we just have so much fun and we're just all really fortunate to be part of something like this because there's so many shows that don't even see the light of day and we're all really lucky this show is not work and it's literally it's not i can't complain be like oh i work so hard on this stuff it is it's like you know the writers do a great job of writing the script and and you know everybody has their own certain job and my job is essentially to have fun it's the greatest thing about a show like this is it's kind of an evolution it grows with you and you grow with it you know so i think and then also you know we're all able to kind of go do other projects and have some time off during the summer and then have a real home base here and i'd do it forever if it were possible yeah i'm pretty psyched to hear that we're big in canada thanks guys we appreciate it let me just say we are we know that we're much bigger in canada than we are in america you ask a question like did we know we'd ever be this big it's like no and we still don't takes place in the 70s and a huge stone stand i've always got sideburns and a little baby fro what you do as well i ended up getting the job and i didn't know yeah and she was as hot as she was you know come on unfortunately she was even hotter but i'm not allowed to say that have you guys learned a lot from this acting job i mean has it taught you a lot about acting hollywood the whole thing um it taught me how to be friends with someone like that that you guys really are a famous cast i mean famous actors

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Length: 23min 10sec (1390 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 26 2020

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[u/crow4212]

man now I wish I could rewatch the show just to catch the cheesegrater lights

[u/7ymmarbm]

Wow Danny called Mila hot haha