![]() Now, there's professional zombies - I mean they've made careers out of being zombies. We had to send them to school and get movement coaches and put them through a zombie boot camp. When we did “Resident Evil” the first time, we had to get extras to play zombies and stuff. I do feel like “Resident Evil” was very in getting zombies back on the screen. “Resident Evil” may not have ushered in a bigger trend of video game movies, but it did make an impact. For me it was always a pleasure to be part of something that was bigger than me and to be able to play characters that were so much bigger than myself. ![]() You have to pretend to be hot you have to pretend to be slogging through a jungle you have to pretend that you're on top of a building 100 stories up. But when you have to pretend about everything, it gets challenging. On location, when it's freezing or it's really hot, at least you can react to that. It's so much easier to act on location than it is in a studio that's all silent where you can hear a pin drop. They don't take it seriously.įor me, acting in front of a green screen always presented really immense challenges. I think if you don't respect what you're doing, then how are other people going to like it? Something that I've heard a lot from actors is that it's not real acting. I think a lot of actors in general don't really like action movies. I feel like it's always been a hard industry for women to break into, and definitely we've made great strides with women being taken seriously when it comes to this genre and these kinds of films, but at the same time there's definitely a long way to go to have women be accepted 100% as action heroes. Maybe there's a few, like "Hunger Games," but especially here in America, it's hard to get movies made with strong female-driven roles when it comes to the action world. We can talk about all that has changed - "Resident Evil" is an exception to the rule. Back then, it definitely wasn't the done thing. Nobody thought that there would be this little orange-haired girl doing all of the crazy stuff. Because that's just how things were back then. In "Fifth Element," at the time, everyone expected Bruce Willis to be the star of the movie. ![]() (Rolf Konow,SMPSP / SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT) How do you feel that conversation has changed in 20 years? The conversation right now is about women leading franchises. We talked to Jovovich about her iconic roles, and - with "Wonder Woman" dominating the summer and films like “Atomic Blonde” on the horizon - how, or if, the action landscape is shifting. With the recent "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter," the film series crossed $1.2 billion worldwide. The 2002 video game adaptation spawned six sequels. In the 15-year franchise "Resident Evil," Jovovich played another kick-butt woman who was part of an experiment to create a clone resistant to a zombie virus. Her character, Leeloo, is still cosplayed around the world. This year marks the 20th anniversary of "The Fifth Element," which saw Jovovich leap off the screen as a formidable heroine - a supreme being even - who captivated audiences under the impression they were just coming to see another Bruce Willis vehicle. Milla Jovovich was at the forefront of the modern era of women commanding the screen as action stars.
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