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Mila Kunis Defends Justin Timberlake in Russian (Video)

Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake in Friends With Benefits
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The "Friends With Benefits" actress shot back at a reporter who asked her co-star why he was making more movies than music.

As Friends With Benefits co-stars Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis continue on their press tour, the actress went back to her roots.

While at a press conference in Moscow, Kunis -- who is originally from Ukraine -- defended her co-star when a reporter asked him the expected question why he is making more films as of late and not music, she took it upon herself to ask a few questions of a her own in Russian.

"Why movies? Why not? What kind of question is that? Why are you here," she asked the reporter in a roomful of journalists.

"What is she saying?," Timberlake asked at one point during her response.

When Timberlake heard Kunis' response -- translated -- he laughed, declaring to the room: "This is my bodyguard."

Kunis isn't the first celebrity to speak in a foreign tongue. Bradley Cooper recently conducted an entire interview in French and Natalie Portman spoke Hebrew while promoting her film V for Vendetta. This past weekend, Matt Damon was candid about his thoughts on the debt ceiling debate.