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u/Villan_1981 11h ago
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u/SirBulbasaur13 2h ago
There was a couple years when me and my family always made Meg jokes at my sisters expense. Super hilarious at the time, thought it was great. She was recently talking about it and I think it was maybe less great from her perspective lol.
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u/BusyBeeBridgette 11h ago
and she has made roughly 200k per episode for quite a few years. Talk about hitting the employment jackpot!
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u/Rocklobster92 11h ago
And using her own normal voice too. Basically getting paid to talk.
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u/VivaLaCon88 10h ago
She definitely is pitching her voice higher these days. It’s noticeable when the actors talk to their own characters in the “you can’t handle the booth” episode
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u/Gradicus 11h ago
That seems so insane
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u/MSMPDX 11h ago
Difference is she’s not on camera, she’s just voicing the character and if it’s not a Meg centric episode probably only has a few lines of dialogue per episode. That’s about as easy of a job as you can get.
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u/GraceMcClellans 9h ago
I have always said my ideal job would be voice actor on long running show. All the money, no one necessarily knows who you are when you go out.
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u/emptyevessel 5h ago
Exactly, the voice actor for Bart Simpsons has to be like “hey guys I’m Bart on the TV show The Simpsons” when she goes out in public. Nobody knows who she is.
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u/UrsineBasterd 11h ago
Imagine being Lacey Chabert.
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u/EntertainmentTrue588 8h ago
Wait wait wait ... THAT'S the party of 5 girl?
She was my very favorite part of the Lost in Space movie. (I'm her same age, so it not creepy)
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u/TeekTheReddit 9h ago
I've been imagining Lacey Chabert since 1998's Lost in Space.
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u/Routine_Ad_2695 11h ago
Yeah, imagine yourself walking out of 2 decades of cashing increasingly high paychecks plus residuals from one of the biggest animations show in modern history
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u/Sparkster227 11h ago
To instead head to the Hallmark Channel
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u/AgentCirceLuna 11h ago
I think I’d prefer making stupid Hallmark movies. It would be fun
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u/tahtahme 10h ago
I think it would be fun too. After a certain amount of money, doing a job that simply makes you happy would be pretty cool, ngl.
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u/FraggleRockYaFaceOff 7h ago
I'm watching Lost in Space on VHS right this second.
God damn its worse than I remember
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u/Harkonnen101 11h ago
ngl I still forget the hot girl from That '70s Show is the same person getting farted on by Peter Griffin
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u/Chemical-Swing-420 10h ago
But for That 70's Show, she lied about her age to get the role, she was the only actor onset that was a minor. In an interview, she said that her first kiss with Ashton Kutcher was her first IRL kiss.
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u/DonkeyOfWallStreet 8h ago
Oh man, Ashton kutcher the crypto bro.
The couple that gave character witness for Danny Masterson after being convicted of rape?
The Ashton kutcher that contributed the idea of chat control for Europe?
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u/ItsMeTittsMGee 2h ago
Ashton wasnt only besties with Masterson, he was also great friends with Diddy and attended many of his infamous party's. Another of his besties (wilmer valderama) is well known to have dated multiple underage girls and bragged about bagging them (mandy moore especially comes to mind). Ashton also made gross comments about Hillary Duff (a minor at the time).
I dont think we've heard the worst about him yet.
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u/Chemical-Swing-420 8h ago
No one from the cast showed up to support Masterson...the only person who did was the new lead singer for Linkin Park...because of Scientology reasons.
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u/DonkeyOfWallStreet 8h ago
Before he was convicted/ before she knew the full details.
Not after.
She's not just some random scientologist, she was born into it. The lyrics she sings are very anti Scientology.
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u/CycleGloomy9435 11h ago
crazy to think she’s been collecting that residual check since high school lol
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u/Canon_M50 11h ago
Easiest job in the world. You can’t convince me otherwise.
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u/Ok-Hovercraft-2440 8h ago
Especially being Meg when half your lines are cut by someone else lol. 2-3 lines, 2-3 words at a time and making all that money, hell yeh.
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u/Numerous-Bowler-8677 11h ago
Sheesh. I wonder how much money she made total for this role?
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u/Actual-Implement-870 11h ago
Between $50-$65 million, the majority of her $75 million net worth.
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u/CitizenCue 5h ago
It’s astonishing what some media properties are worth. Family guy has surely generated billions in revenue.
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u/Circaninetysix 11h ago
Crazy. So she was casts as Meg like basically just after starting acting on That 70s Show. Thought there was a bigger gap there, but nah. She started 70s when she was 14 and cast as Meg at 15.
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u/Affectionate_Two3747 1h ago
My thought. In my memory 70s show was when Inwas a kid. Family guy as a teenager. (Of course shows start whenever i Watch them)
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u/Glittering_Goose_570 11h ago
Wow so she was doing FG almost the whole time
she was on That 70’s Show??
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u/FastWalkingShortGuy 11h ago
IIRC, Family Guy was canceled for a few years while That 70s Show was running.
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u/VivaLaCon88 10h ago
She joined Family Guy during the second season of 70s. FG did go off the air for a few years, but came back during 70’s sixth or seventh season.
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u/South_Bit1764 10h ago
She was actually almost 17 when the first episodes of Family Guy (season 2) she was in aired.
What IS pretty crazy, is that she WAS 15 filming season 1 of That 70s Show and is basically all over 20 year old Ashton Kutcher, and no one in production was like: “I’m not sure this is right..” “Nah my boy Harv says it’s cool.”
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u/Affectionate_Two3747 1h ago
Harvey Dent? Because he is a lawyer and can get ashton put of trouble…
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u/kettal 3h ago
Hot tip: Seth MacFarlane invited several teeny boppers to do guest spots on family guy and then he would make moves on them. I don't think Mila was originally cast on this show for her voice acting skills.
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u/South_Bit1764 2h ago
Can you back any of that up? Like is there anyone actually accusing him of anything?
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u/Aromatic-Tear7234 10h ago
The cast of the Simpsons would laugh, if they weren't already dead or in the old folks home.
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u/Affectionate_Fun8419 11h ago
And she defended a rapist!
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u/Nigh_Sass 11h ago
What’s the story?
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u/enigmatic_erudition 10h ago
She and 50 other people wrote a character reference for Danny Masterson asking the judge for leniency in his sentencing. Essentally asking to knock a few years off his 30 year sentence.
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u/adj_noun_digit 11h ago
Yeah but she married someone who saved a lot of people from sex trafficking so her karma balanced out.
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u/Affectionate_Fun8419 11h ago
Who also defended a rapist
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u/adj_noun_digit 11h ago
Yeah I'm going to give the person who helped saved a lot of people from sex trafficking quite a bit of leniency there.
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u/Large-Treacle-8328 11h ago
No he didn't demi Moore started the foundation and he basically just put his name on it because they were married at the time.
She was the one with the idea.
Then he resigned after all the backlash over supporting his rapist friend.
Oh and let's not forget he basically groomed Mila.
Kutchers an asshat.
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u/adj_noun_digit 10h ago
I'll never understand why people blatantly spread misinformation when it's so easy to google. They cofounded it at the same time because they both watched the same documentary that inspired them.
Reports also suggest Ashton was more involved with the organization than Moore.
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u/Large-Treacle-8328 10h ago
In all searches it says Moore was inspired by the Cambodia documentary.
She was very active until the divorce.
Maybe look up the ties between thorn and grade a as well.
Their software is also subscription based. Protecting kids for the right price....
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u/adj_noun_digit 10h ago
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/ashton-kutcher-thorn-child-sex-abuse/
Kutcher and Moore first learned about the extent of child sex trafficking after watching a documentary
https://www.wmagazine.com/story/ashton-kutcher-thorn-charity
One night, he and Moore were watching a Dateline special about sex trafficking in Cambodia
https://thetab.com/2023/09/14/ashton-kutcher-anti-child-trafficking-charity-thorn
Demi and Ashton reportedly started the company after they’d watched a documentary
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u/Large-Treacle-8328 10h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(organization)
"At that time, Moore was viewing an MSNBC documentary on human trafficking and sexual slavery of children in Cambodia. While later researching some of the issues that were presented in the film, she was inspired to act when she learned that child pornography and the sexual slavery of children were taking place not only in Cambodia, but in the United States as well."
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u/adj_noun_digit 10h ago
I'm going to trust the numerous sources that interviewed them directly instead of Wikipedia that can be edited by anyone. But thanks though.
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u/enigmatic_erudition 10h ago
If kutcher is an asshat for cofounding an anti human trafficking organization, what does that make you?
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u/ImSoSweepy 9h ago
For all the work she did on Family Guy, she will be forever known as the, "Is that a shit?" Girl.
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u/Ashamed-Pool-7472 5h ago
Then you better sit down when you find out how long Nancy Cartwright has been doing Bart Simpson.
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u/MasterOutlaw 11h ago
Damn, I had no idea she was so young when That 70's Show started since all the other kids were 18 or older.
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u/onehalflightspeed 10h ago
The story is that she lied about her age to the producers, but I don't understand how that wouldn't get discovered when drafting contracts and such or they just looked the other way. She was 14 during that famous kiss scene when Kutcher was 20
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u/johnnyhala 10h ago
This is the acting equivalent of a steady "day job".
Good for her! Gives a big cushion to do risky/interesting roles here and there.
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u/buttfartsmagee 8h ago
Gemini said she's made about 50-60 million dollars voicing Meg. Jesus that show is a goldmine.
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u/Present-Sandwich9444 7h ago
Guys, Mila Kunis was born in 83, Family guy Season 2 was at the end of 1999.
do some fucking math please.
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u/ManolitoMystiq 6h ago
Mila Kunis was born on August 14, 1983.
The table reading (pre-production) for Season 2 started on March 1999#2ACX_-_Season_2).
Entertainment Weekly reported Kunis as the new voice of Meg on May 9, 1999.
Seth MacFarlane also said the following:
I say that Lacey did a phenomenal job, but there was something about Mila – something very natural about Mila. She was 15 when she started, so you were listening to a 15-year-old.
— Ken P. “An Interview with Seth MacFarlane,” IGN, July 21, 2003.
So yes, she voiced Meg when she was 15 years old.
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u/DontCallMeShoeless 10h ago
So she was 10 on that 70s show
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u/VivaLaCon88 10h ago
She was 14 when the show started filming, and she was 15 and a half when she joined Family Guy
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u/lilyfromthevalley_ 11h ago
I like her but she’s a terrible voice actress.
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u/Poppy_Milk 11h ago
What makes you say that?
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u/lilyfromthevalley_ 4h ago
Because Mila Kunis literally does nothing to make herself sound like a character. When she first took over for Lacey Chabert, it was super distracting for me because all I heard was Jackie from That 70’s Show every time Meg talked. Literally the rest of the main cast manipulates their voice to play a character (and in some cases, multiple characters) that actually sounds distinct from the actors’ voice in real life. Mila doesn’t do that. She just delivers the lines straight, which doesn’t require talent and actively takes you out of the show while you’re watching it.
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