Everything the cast of 'That '70s Show' has said about each other

• "That '70s Show" ran for eight seasons on Fox, starring Topher Grace, Ashton Kutcher, and more.

• Cast interviews have resurfaced after Danny Masterson was sentenced to 30 years in prison for rape.

• Here's what the stars have said about their experiences working together.

In 2002, Mila Kunis said Danny Masterson bet Ashton Kutcher $10 to French kiss her.

Kunis and Kutcher starred as on-again, off-again couple Jackie Burkhart and Michael Kelso on "That '70s Show." Kunis, who was 14 when she started the series, famously lied about her age and was the youngest cast member. Kutcher was also Kunis' first-ever kiss.

During an appearance on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" in 2002, Kunis and Kutcher discussed a bet that Masterson, who played Steven Hyde, initiated.

"She was 14 when we started the show," Kutcher said of Kunis. "I was 19. And they were like, 'You guys are going to be making out in this scene.' And I'm thinking wait, this is slightly illegal."

"I've never kissed a guy," Kunis recalled. "I was a 14-year-old little girl and I was extremely scared for my life. He was very nice about it like, 'Don't worry about it.' Then Danny goes to him and goes, 'Dude, I'll give you $10 if you French kiss her.'"

Kutcher then elaborated on the terms of their "side bet."

"You're kissing on the show, we're boyfriend and girlfriend. You would use tongue," he said. "Danny bet me like, 20 bucks I wouldn't do it."

Kunis insisted that Kutcher wasn't successful in his attempt.

"I didn't let him, but I think he tried," she said.

Kunis voiced her displeasure over having to kiss so many of her male costars on "That '70s Show."

Although Jackie was primarily in a relationship with Kelso, in later seasons, Kunis' character dated others like Hyde and Fez (played by Wilmer Valderrama).

During an appearance on "The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn" in the early 2000s, the host said that he was "worried" because Jackie kept "boy hopping" on the sitcom.

"I know," Kunis said. "It's upsetting to my parents as well."

"Off-camera, I know you're such a nice lady," Kilborn replied. "You're all of 19 and in the show though, you're just bed hopping."

"I'm the one who's kissed every single guy on the show except for Topher," Kunis said, referring to Topher Grace, who played Eric Forman.

Kunis added that she also kissed Masterson's real-life younger brother Christopher Masterson, who guest-starred on season four.

"I've kissed the Mastersons," she said, "I've kissed everybody."

"That's so wrong, isn't it?" Kilborn replied.

"It is," Kunis said. "It's quite wrong."

When the host asked if the writers of the show didn't care, Kunis said, "I don't know what they're thinking."

"I have no choice but to just kiss every man on the show," she said.

At the wrap party in May 2006, Masterson and the cast recalled being emotional about the show coming to an end.

"I've actually never cried so much in my life and it was hard," Masterson told Access Hollywood on the red carpet. "I was a wreck. Everybody was a wreck. I couldn't look anybody in the eyes."

"It's been a lot of years," Valderrama said. "It's been a great roller coaster. But it's a very exciting time for now to close this chapter."

When asked about what Masterson remembered about the onset of the show, he said that his costars didn't have much professional acting prior to "That '70s Show."

"They didn't really know what they were doing," he said. "And then over the course of the first month or two, everybody sort of figuring out what's going."

Kunis recalled going through puberty on the show and said that she "got pantsed a lot."

"But it was all in good fun," she added.

Kunis said that she made life-long friends through "That '70s Show."

Kunis was 14 when she began the show and 22 when it came to an end.

"I think for life we will be friends," Kunis told Peter Travers. "I don't think any one of us will ever not be in each others' lives."

In 2012, Kutcher, Kunis, Valderrama, and Laura Prepon reunited for Fox's 25th anniversary special and reminisced about their time on "That '70s Show."

Prepon said that the episode that's the most special to her is the pilot because it was the start of their years-long journey on the show.

Kutcher also said that they "got paid to laugh at each other all day long."

"We were just having fun," he said. "You can tell when you watch the show that we're having fun. So that invited everybody else to come and have fun with us. And to me, that's what really made it magical."

In August 2015, Topher Grace reacted to Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher's wedding.

Kunis and Kutcher welcomed their first child together, daughter Wyatt Isabelle Kutcher, in October 2014. They got married in July 2015.

"I know both the bride and the groom in that situation," Grace told Entertainment Tonight. "They are both amazing people, so the fact that they're together now and have a kid, it's like your two great friends from high school got together after high school."

He shared similar comments about the real-life couple a few months later during an appearance on "Watch What Happens Live."

"You know, it's funny, 'cause it's fascinating to everyone, but it's fascinating to people in the cast, too," Grace said. "I mean, we were all buddies, but it's so great. It's like two of your best friends from high school met years after high school and got together."

Masterson said that it "felt like no time had passed" when he and Kutcher reunited for the Netflix series "The Ranch," which premiered in 2016.

"The Ranch" lasted for four seasons between 2016 and 2020, starring Masterson and Kutcher as siblings named Rooster and Colt Bennett, respectively.

"It honestly felt like no time had passed, I swear to god," Masterson told Entertainment Tonight.

Additionally, Kutcher told On Demand Entertainment that he and Masterson had been trying to figure out their next project to work on together after "That '70s Show" ended.

The series also featured "That '70s Show" actors Valderrama, Debra Jo Rupp, and Kurtwood Smith. Plus, Valderrama and Kunis supported Masterson and Kutcher at a special screening of "The Ranch" in March 2016.

Masterson was dropped from "The Ranch" in December 2017 following several rape accusations, which he subsequently denied in a statement to Us Weekly. In May 2023, he was found guilty of two counts of rape. He was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison in September.

During an appearance on "The Late Late Show With James Corden" in 2016, Masterson and Kutcher spoke about their wild partying days.

The longtime friends spoke about how liberating it was to go out and let loose prior to the age of TMZ and cell phone documentation.

"Nobody was gonna take your picture, so you could really wild out, and nobody would know what you did last night," Kutcher said.

"I have more photos of commando Kutcher here naked in a club than probably anybody, with my Polaroid," Masterson said.

"Only after it closed," Kutcher chimed in, adding that his costar has "zero photos of the full Kutcher."

Laura Prepon and Kutcher reunited on "Live With Kelly" in October 2016.

During the episode, Kutcher served as Kelly Ripa's guest cohost.

Kutcher said that he was "very upset" with Prepon because he found out about her engagement to actor Ben Foster through the news.

"She's my friend and it's weird like that," Kutcher said. "And by the way, it's not just a random engagement. It's an engagement to another friend of mine, so I'm double upset that neither of them told me."

Kutcher said that he, Prepon, Kunis, and Foster all used to hang out 20 years prior.

"I love you, but I am so pissed at you," he told Prepon when she joined him for an interview. "Pre, this is unacceptable."

Prepon, in her defense, said that if anyone would understand the importance of privacy in their personal lives, it's Kutcher.

Valderrama said that he and his costars were like family.

"It was a blast," the "NCIS" star said about working on the sitcom during an appearance on the Australian show "Studio 10."

"The cast and I have these little dinners that we do sometimes," he continued. "And sometimes we remember those days going to work, going out there laughing all day long and pretending to be actors."

"We had a lot of fun," he said. "We were each others' brothers and sisters."

Valderrama added: "You spend eight years and 200 episodes with a cast and you know for a fact that this is going to be forever friendships."

The actor also said that "nobody" predicted Kunis and Kutcher's real-life relationship, but "they're amazing and they make the most sense together."

In April 2019, Valderrama appeared on Grace's podcast, "Minor Adventures with Topher Grace."

"Wilmer's one of my great friends in life," Grace said in the episode's intro, explaining that they were both new to the industry when they met.

"To be thrown into this show together and have such a wonderful time, it's so great when you meet someone amazing, one of your great life friends, at a real crossroads like that," he said.

Grace said that had never known anyone to the extent that he knew Valderrama.

"It was one of the luckiest things ever, that you were on that show, for me," Grace told his costar.

In August 2019, Grace dispelled the rumor that he didn't hang out with his costars because he didn't like them.

"That's not true," Grace said on the podcast "Pardon My Take."

"I love them," he continued. "We get together. I love them."

Grace explained that he was "so green" and new to professional acting when he got cast on "That '70s Show." Because of that, he spent less time socializing and more time focused on his work.

"I was so messed up the first couple of years that a lot of the cast was more fun and would go out more," he said. "And I didn't even date anyone the first couple of years. I was so trying to do a good job on the show. Sometimes people will say, 'Were you not as close to them?' and it really makes me sad because they're all still great."

"I have this podcast and Wilmer just came on it and we had a blast together," Grace added.

In July 2016, Kunis explained to Howard Stern how her relationship with Kutcher went from platonic to romantic.

After "That '70s Show" ended, Kunis said that she and Kutcher kept in touch with each other and checked in over instant messaging, but she still wasn't interested in him romantically.

It wasn't until they ran into each other during awards show season that she saw him differently.

"I think that he for the first time ever took my breath away," Kunis said. "I was like fuck, he's good-looking."

"I think we both had to go through a lot in our lives to become the people that we were because we would never be together based on the people we used to be," she added.

In July 2022, Kutcher explained why he and Kunis reprised their roles for Netflix's spin-off series, "That '90s Show."

"It was really nostalgic to be back on the set," Kutcher told Variety. "It's all the same folks that made 'That '70s Show,' so it was pretty bizarre."

"Mila and I were contemplating it," he continued. "We thought, 'Listen, we're only in the position that we're in because of that show, so let's just go back and do this. We just went back and had fun for a week. It was so random and fun."

Kunis said that it was "weird" and "uncomfortable" filming "That '90s Show" with her now-husband Kutcher.

"It was weird to shoot together," Kunis told Access Hollywood in August 2022, adding that "it made me super nervous."

"I was more nervous doing that than anything else in my career, was to shoot with my husband," she said. "It made me so uncomfortable."

Grace said that guest-starring on "That '90s Show" was like going to a high school reunion.

Grace reprised his role as Eric for the series premiere of "That '90s Show."

"I only got to do one episode of because I have a day job," Grace said on "Live With Kelly and Ryan" in September 2022. "It was great. Everyone was back. It was like going to a high school reunion, and then you go back to school."

Kunis said that she didn't get into drugs because "no one" on the set of "That '70s Show" used them.

"The reason I don't do drugs, the reason I didn't get into doing drugs, all of that was because nobody on the set did," Kunis told Vanity Fair in October 2022. "I looked up to them, at 14, and so the trajectory of my career, my life, could've gone any which way, but it didn't."

The actor also said that she "wasn't intimidated" by her older costars because she had a "solid ego."

"I don't know if it was intimidating in the sense that I didn't know who I was or lost sense of myself," she added. "But I must've been like, 'Wow, these kids are all so cool and they're so much older than I am.'"

In January 2023, Rupp and Smith spoke about Kunis and Kutcher's real-life relationship.

"I think they're two amazing humans, number one," Rupp told ET Canada.

"And then for them to come together and create two more amazing humans is just gold," she said, referencing the couple's kids. "It's a gift of the gods."

She shared similar comments in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, calling the pair "the most beautiful couple I have ever seen in my life."

Smith said that he "couldn't have predicted" that Kunis and Kutcher would get together, "but at the same time, it just didn't surprise me when it happened. I thought, 'Oh, OK, that makes sense."

Rupp also recalled working with Kunis on the set and said that she "had to find Jackie again."

"It's so far away from who she is now," Rupp said. "So it took her a couple of runs there to get back into the Jackie mode."

In a profile for Esquire, published in January 2023, Kutcher spoke highly of Masterson.

Kutcher told Esquire that Masterson, the oldest of the core group of actors, was a role model on set and warned his costars about their behavior.

"He's like, 'One fucking rule: Don't do anything fucking stupid and fuck this up. Because if you fuck it up, you fuck it up for everybody,'" Kutcher recalled.

Amid Masterson's legal proceedings, Kutcher mentioned that his costar's child is "going to read about this" at some point. But, "I wholesale feel for anybody who feels like they were violated in any way."

Kutcher also said that he wanted Masterson "to be found innocent of the charges brought against him."

In September 2023, Kunis and Kutcher faced backlash for letters they wrote in support of Masterson.

Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life after he was found guilty of raping two women.

Kunis and Kutcher wrote letters to a judge asking for leniency prior to his sentencing.

In Kutcher's letter, dated July 27, 2023, he described Masterson as a "role model."

"I do not believe he is an ongoing harm to society and having his daughter raised without a present father would [be] a tertiary injustice in and of itself," Kutcher wrote.

Kunis' letter was similarly supportive of Masterson.

"I wholeheartedly vouch for Danny Masterson's exceptional character and the tremendous positive influence he has had on me and the people around him," she wrote. "His dedication to leading a drug-free life and the genuine care he extends to others make him an outstanding role model and friend."

After being criticized online, the couple addressed the controversy in a video.

"The letters were not written to question the legitimacy of the judicial system or the validity of the jury's ruling," Kunis said. "We support victims."

"They were intended for the judge to read and not to undermine the testimony of the victims or retraumatize them in any way,"  Kutcher said. "And we're sorry if that has taken place."

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