Ashton Kutcher (aka Mr. Demi Moore) is featured in an artistic futuristic cover and spread in the new VMan (spring/summer 2008) where he plays a robot being repaired. The "I'M NOT REAL" photo shoot was done by famous photographer Mario Testino,
The concept of the shoot was Ashton's, "I had a vision one day. I was watching one of those Gatorade commercials where they had a guy on a treadmill, and they're testing to see what his physical abilities are. I had this idea: what did the creatorâ€"God or whateverâ€"make you for? Maybe we're all doing exactly what we're supposed to be doing, and we're all actually robots."
The "I'm Not Real" shoot leaves us with an important question: is the considerably big bulge in the CK briefs real or not?
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Ashton Kutcher "I'm Not Real" on VMAN
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