ASHTON KUTCHER RISES ABOVE PUNK’D IN THE GUARDIAN

(VIDEO) Ashton Kutcher leaves the comfort zone of Punk’d to stretch his acting and swimming muscles in The Guardian.

Ashton Kutcher puts his Punk’d pranks aside to star in The Guardian as an over-confident enlistee in the Coast Guard who is part of an elite training program for rescue swimmers trained by superior officer and legendary Rescue Swimmer Kevin Costner. Kutcher has left his comfort zone of comedy to try his hand at action and adventure in a story that he says we’re not familiar with.

Aside from stretching his acting muscles Kutcher spent the greater part of the film getting his swimmer’s stride.

“What is it about this movie? I think we’re telling a tale about some guys that hasn’t been told for. Yeah we’ve all seen military movies; we’ve all seen training movies. This one does it in a different way. It tells a story about guys we don’t know a whole lot about. I think there’s an emotional vibrance that this movie has that maybe others films I’ve done haven’t had. And I think there’s the action aspect of the movie.”

Growing up in Iowa, Kutcher says having the grueling job of a cereal dust sweeper at the General Mills plant in Cedar Rapids in a way prepared him for the discipline of his military character.rn

“I’m a little water logged. I spent the better part of the film wet and cold. It was kind of nice where I got to do scenes where all I had to do was act. That was a treat.”

You can also hear Ashton as the voice of Elliot the mule-deer in the animated film Open Season. The Guardian opens Friday in theaters.rn

“Well I grew up doing blue collar work so I’m not afraid so I’m not afraid of working. And I know what it’s like to go home at the end of the day with a sore back and sore muscles and kind of wake up in the morning and kick that off before you can get out of bed. It helped growing up in a conservative environment, a blue collar environemtn when it came to the military stuff just because where I come from you do as you’re told, you don’t talk back. So all that stuff was helpful and it helped me snap into who the character was.”rn