Milla Jovovich Talks Resident Evil: Afterlife.

Milla Jovovich starred in the first Resident Evil movie back in 2002, making Resident Evil: Afterlife's September 10 debut almost ten years of Jovovich playing the franchise's super-powered zombie slayer, Alice. With her husband Paul W.S. Anderson returning to direct — after only writing the previous two sequels — Jovovich admitted to ShockTillYouDrop that living with the writer and director of your movie can have its advantages.




We definitely sit up a lot talking about the script and the story. Definitely it's like, we talk about all the things that I like first and then we get into the things that I'm sort of not totally sure about. Pretty much it's like either he'll really explain a great reason for something and I'll be like, "Oh, okay." Or, if it's something I feel really strongly about he'll go and rewrite it. So definitely there's a lot of ideas going back and forth.

Let's just put it this way, draft one will never be seen. He got a lot of boiling water from his wife about it. I mean, definitely the action sequences I'm very involved with and stunt-wise, I definitely love doing it, so I have just instinctual ideas about things that my character would do, or even really cool thoughts or dreams that I had, or something that like, "Oh, and this is 3-D, so let's really take advantage of this new medium and do something like this or like that."

Resident Evil: Extinction saw Jovovich's Alice traveling the zombie-stricken world in search of survivors while she hide from the evil Umbrella Corporation. This time around, Jovovich says Alice will be in a much better place.

Well, without giving too much away, I think Alice is definitely a happier person. She's more in control of herself and I definitely think she's a little bit lighter because of things that I won't talk about. But, she's more herself I think than we've ever seen her ready to start relationships with people, ready to get back into the world a bit.

That doesn't meant that Alice won't find herself in precarious situations.

I mean, the stunts just go off the charts in this one. There's some really cool stuff and obviously taking advantage of green screen a lot for them because they're just physically impossible to build a set to jump off of that's that high. It would just cost too much. So we're definitely trying to make the dollar go as far as possible and take what we have and just multiple it. I think we really have. It's very exciting in watching dailies. It's a lot of fun.

At the end of Extinction, Jovovich meets several cloned versions of herself at an Umbrella facility. The clones will be featured prominently in Afterlife, and created one of Jovovich's desired sequences, that of Alice doing a free fall.

So, [Anderson] wrote this really great scene during the clone sequence where my clones crash through this plate glass window and then get into this needle dive going down like, 50 stories of like, the umbrella headquarters. They found this amazing place. It's like the university here where they have those white floating pods which is actually like a coffee station I guess apparently for the teachers. So that's like, the main, the Wesker Umbrella headquarter center. Then, I do this really amazing needle dive, the two clones shooting people as we go down 'cause it's in this atrium, so it's all the balconies around, so the guards are coming and it's [makes gun noises.]

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