ASHTON Kutcher wants to “deliver joy” with his work.

The ‘Your Place or Mine’ actor admitted his battle with vaculitis in 2019 has changed his outlook, and the wealth he’s made over the years means he doesn’t have to pick projects based on their pay cheques, so he can be more selective.

He told Esquire magazine: “Now I can just worry about playing roles that I want to play...

“I want to tell stories that say something. I want to tell stories that deliver people joy. And I want to deliver stories that make people think. And I want to play characters that are fun to play. And I’m willing to work my a** off to do that.”

And the 44-year-old star wants to have a good time at work. He said: “I’m hankering to find something fun.”

While Kutcher – who has daughter Wyatt, eight, and son Dimitri, six, with with Mila Kunis – can next be seen opposite Reese Witherspoon in ‘Your Place or Mine’, he almost turned down the rom-com because it was going to be filmed in Georgia during the school year.

He said: “I have young kids, and I like my kids a lot. I like spending time with them.” But knowing the movie was to shoot in Georgia because of tax breaks offered to Hollywood productions, Kutcher agreed a deal to cover the extra production costs incurred from shooting in Los Angeles out of his own salary. Witherspoon said: “He loves his family so deeply and really is such an incredible dad who shows up every day for his kids. “There is no pretense. He is just very comfortable in his own skin. And did I mention he is hysterically funny?” — Bang Showbiz