JAPAN: Hollywood star Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore greet over a thousand excited Japanese fans

Record ID: 463435

  • Title: JAPAN: Hollywood star Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore greet over a thousand excited Japanese fans
  • Date: 7th August 2008
  • Summary: DIAZ AND KUTCHER WALKING ON A STAGE MORE OF DIAZ AND KUTCHER ON THE STAGE PRESS TAKING PICTURES KUTCHER AND DIAZ HITTING JACK POT ON A HUGE SLOT MACHINE SHOWN ON A BIG SCREEN KUTCHER AND DIAZ SMILING ON STAGE
  • Embargoed: 22nd August 2008 13:00
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  • Location: Japan
  • Country: Japan
  • Reuters ID: LVA6SA9MTSD04CJFNLIX08I5NKOZ
  • Story Text: When actor Ashton Kutcher set out to make his latest movie "What Happens in Vegas," which opened in North American theatres in May, he drew on his three-year marriage to his actress wife Demi Moore to play the role of a chronic underachiever who accidentally marries while being drunk in Las Vegas.
    But arriving at the movie's premiere event in Tokyo, Japan on Wednesday (Aug 6), Kutcher could not hide the fact that he is one happy husband.
    He escorted Moore along the red carpet as she signed autographs and shook hands with excited Japanese fans.
    Diaz, who played Kutcher's Vegas wife, also walked down the red carpet and mingled with fans.
    Kutcher and Diaz is visiting Japan on a promotional tour for their latest movie, which is expected to hit the country's big screens on August
    A day earlier on Tuesday (August 5), the two held a news conference in Tokyo as part of their film promotion event.
    During the news conference, Diaz told reporters that she had brought her parents, relatives and friends on her latest trip to Japan.

    "When I was 16, I lived here for 3 months when I modeled and so I thought it'd be great to bring my mom to show her where it was that she let her 16-year-old daughter come to by herself," Diaz, who has been visiting Japan 6 years in a row, told reporters. "Since I was 16 she's just heard about it so she finally got to witness what it is that I love so much and have been heavily influenced by," she added.
    Meanwhile, Kutcher, who is making his first visit to the country with Moore, said his trip has been quite interesting so far.

    "We had a traditional meal that I must say, was a little frightening for me," said Kutcher. "There were some things on the menu I had never seen before, but we went for it and it all turned out okay.
    And then we went and saw some temples and some gardens and it was incredibly beautiful."
    30-year-old Kutcher rose to fame playing a high school stoner on television comedy "That '70s Show," then parlayed his TV success into a career in films such as "The Butterfly Effect" and "Bobby."
    The former biochemical engineering student at University of Iowa also has produced reality television programs such as prankster show "Punk'd."
    When he began dating Moore back in 2003, few Hollywood watchers believed the relationship would last because she is some 15 years his senior.
    But the pair were married in 2005, and has been together since.
    In the movie, Kutcher played Jack Fuller, who manages to lose his job at his father's closet factory at the same time as Joy McNally, played by Cameron Diaz, is dumped by her fiance at a surprise birthday party she threw for him.
    Each flies to Vegas on a whim and, with their best friends in tow, create a new set of problems when they wake up married, then win a 3 million USD slot machine jackpot together.
    The mismatched pair spend most of the film trying to trick each other out of the money as they serve a sentence of "six months hard marriage" handed down by Judge Whopper played by Dennis Miller, who wants to punish them for their impulsive vows.
    Kutcher said the circumstances of his own top-secret wedding to Moore were far removed from the boozy, spur-of-the-moment nuptials depicted in "Vegas."
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