Ashton Kutcher On Race And Love

Since his breakthrough on the hit sitcom "That '70s Show," Ashton Kutcher has become a multimedia phenomenon.

He has starred in hit films like "The Butterfly Effect," "Dude Where's My Car" And "Cheaper By The Dozen."

On television, he's the host and executive producer of MTV's "Punk'd." And Kutcher's face has probably sold more tabloids than he'd care to admit.

His latest project finds him back on the big screen, co-starring with Bernie Mac in the new comedy "Guess Who."

"I'm running around a lot," Kutcher tells The Early Show co-anchor Rene Syler. "It's idle hands of the devil's work. I try to stay as busy as I can."

It was the reaction he got from people about his friendship with Sean Combs that Kutcher says motivated him to do "Guess Who."

He explains, "I realized when I was hanging out with him. Here I am this white farm kid from Iowa and he's the black hip-hop mongul from New York, and people were fascinated with us spending time together. They couldn't figure out: What are we doing? What's going on? There's got to be something going on. We were just friends. People were making judgments based on who we are. We can't be friends."

The film, of course, is loosely based on the 1967 classic "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner."

"It's an adaptation of the original," Kutcher says with a straight face, "When we started off, we were going to do the exact replica of the show, and the studio came down on us after a couple of days: that I wasn't playing black that well and Bernie was having a hard time playing white. So we had to switch it around. I don't understand."

And working with Mac as his father-in-law-to-be was "hilarity all the time," Kutcher says, "You never know what you'll get. Every take is honest, and every take is different. He just makes up words. He'll just come up with, like, whatever he wants, you know, 'go with the spookness.' I'm, like: What is the spookness? That's not even the word."

On a personal level, he dispels rumors that he and Demi Moore are expecting a baby.

"I think a lot of these papers and magazines should come with a bottle of Wite-Out so you can take out whatever might not be true," he says. "If she is, I don't know about it, and I have to go find out whose is it and kick his …"

And though he says he is not sure about marriage yet, he says, "Every day is like our first day together. In order to make a relationship work, that's how it has to be. You go on your first date, and you're all about impressing the person, right? You do whatever -- it's all about them. It's all about them. And if you can make every day all about them and they're making every day all about you, then it lasts."

About Ashton Kutcher:

• Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Feb. 7, 1978
• Attended University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. Majored in biochemical engineering. Worked as a cereal dust sweeper in the General Mills factory in Cedar Rapids to finance his education. He left school as a freshman to pursue career.
• He was discovered in a restaurant in Iowa City, where he was encouraged to enter a modeling contest that won him a trip to New York, a move that would jump-start his career.
• He was signed to an agency and modeled in runway shows in Milan and Paris and was featured in advertisements for Calvin Klein Jeans.
• He made his film debut in "Distance," a New York University student production, and appeared in a nationwide Pizza Hut TV commercial.
• Since 1998, he has been seen as a regular on Fox's "That '70s Show," a role he landed after impressing producers with his fresh-faced enthusiasm.
• In 1999, he made it to the big screen with a small role in "Coming Soon," starring Gaby Hoffman and Mia Farrow, followed by a turn in the it's-so-stupid-it's fun comedy "Dude, Where's My Car" in 2000, opposite Sean William Scott, a film that has gone on the enjoy something of a cult following. He also had a role in the failed Western "Texas Rangers" in 2001.
• In 2003, Kutcher paired up with Brittany Murphy for the feature film "Just Married." Kutcher and Murphy, who were romantically linked during publicity for the film, played a newlywed couple in the highly uneven romantic comedy.
• Also in 2003, he debuted his MTV hidden camera show "Punk'd," featuring Kutcher and a cast of pranksters pulling outrageous hoaxes on his young Hollywood pals. The show helped ignite Kutcher's celebrity status.
• He embarked on his romance with actress Demi Moore, 15 years his senior. His next 2003 release was "My Boss' Daughter," a film shot two years earlier and pulled from the shelf for release after Kutcher's ascent.
• And he had an amusingly effective uncredited cameo in the Steve Martin-Bonnie Hunt remake of "Cheaper By the Dozen," as the vain boyfriend of their daughter, played by Piper Perabo.
• In 2004, he made a shaky entry in dramatic territory in the critically slammed "The Butterfly Effect," playing a college student whose troubled childhood memories send him on a timeline-altering journey in an effort to improve his friends' lives.
• Kutcher has also completed the romantic comedy "A Lot Like Love" co-starring Amanda Peet, which will be released in April.