WASHINGTON POST: Milla Jovovich has taste of ordinary life in latest 'Resident Evil'
SAN DIEGO — Milla Jovovich says it's tougher to play an ordinary person than someone with superpowers in the "Resident Evil" world. In "Resident Evil: Retribution," Jovovich gets a taste of life as an average family woman in the franchise filled with undead zombies and the super soldiers battling to kill them.
Jovovich and husband Paul W.S. Anderson, the filmmaker behind the "Resident Evil" movies, joined other cast members to preview footage of the film at the Comic-Con fan convention Friday. [READ MORE]
Milla Jovovich: Is "Resident Evil" Coming to an End?
Milla Jovovich has been spent the last 10 years kicking zombie ass as Alice in the "Resident Evil" movies -- but could the film series be ending soon?
With the fifth film "Resident Evil: Retribution" coming out in September, Milla talked about the future to toofab earlier today at Comic-Con.
"He said #6 is the end," Milla says of director Paul W. S. Anderson, who also happens to be the star's husband.
"Like for real, for real," she adds.
While she remained tight-lipped on what a sixth (and possibly final) flick could be about, she revealed Paul wants "to take it back to the first movie ... he wants to take it back to being this really tight, enclosed space, which I think it really interesting since because we've just been going bigger and badder."
She says the movie would also be "very contained and claustrophobic." While Milla didn't say any more about the franchise's future, costar Boris Kodjoe had a more optimistic (and realistic) take on the situation.
"Forever," he said when asked how long the series would continue. "It will, as long as it's making money for them, they'll continue doing them. Why not? It's a sure shot for the, there's a built in audience and the audience is growing globally at a crazy rate. Hopefully they'll do many more," he adds. "It's good for me!" [SOURCE]
Comic-Con and Milla Jovovich of 'Resident Evil: Retribution': Why Women 'Kick Butt':
A nine-minute, hand-to-hand battle between "the two best female ass-kickers" on the big screen was the central taste of the "Resident Evil: Retribution" presentation at Comic-Con on Friday, with Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez in the leading, ass-kicking roles.
Alice (Jovovich) returns to continue her fight against the Umbrella Corporation and the undead, the fifth in the series directed by her husband, Paul W. S. Anderson.
"There's never been a better time to be a woman who wants to kick butt in theaters today," Jovovich declared at the panel in Hall H. "We all paved the way." (She's not wrong, since at least two other films on Friday featured female butt-kickers, including Emily Blunt in "Looper" and Kate Beckinsale in "Total Recall.")
Jovovich returns as Alice in "Retribution," but in this franchise she also plays a housewife who fends off the zombies.
In the epic battle of which Anderson showed less than three minutes, Rodriguez injects herself in the neck with a serum attached to what appears to a live scorpion that makes her bulletproof. Literally. She gets shot a dozen times, and her skin expunges the bullets into the snow.
The all-woman battle goes on with pitched acrobatics and lots of sharp, pointed objects. Rodriguez does a full layout body flip to attack her opponent.
In a rollicking panel on Friday, Rodriguez praised Anderson for his open-minded attitude toward women warriors.
"It's rare that an American man director would have that open-mindedness to have a female lead and pull that off. I give him mad props for that," she said.
Of course, Jovovich is the director's wife. But a dozen female fans stood up from the massive audience and thanked the actresses for setting an example of fierce female attitude.
Asked if this would be the end of the franchise, Anderson said, "This is the beginning of the end. This has a lot of revelations and an awful lot of death with it." But he wouldn't mention how many more were still to come, if any.
Said Rodriguez, "I begged Paul's ass as soon as I saw they were making a movie." She turned to the director and said, 'I'm just so glad you shot me in the head and brought me back." [SOURCE]
