Milla Jovovich Talks 'Resident Evil': 'Bigger and Better'
Actress Milla Jovovich has opened up about the fifth installment of the "Resident Evil" film franchise on the red carpet this week.
The new film follows Jovovich's character Alice and will be "the craziest 'Resident Evil' yet," said the actress.
"Each time, we try to make the movies bigger and better than the last one because what's the point of seeing another one, if it's not going to be better than the last," explained the star of "Resident Evil: Retribution" while at the premiere in Tokyo earlier this month.
"We try out best to [put] all of our passion and all of our energy into [making] it the best that we can," she added, according to OnTheRedCarpet.com.
The film will also see Michelle Rodriguez and Jason Isaacs reprise their roles in the sci- fi thriller, which is seeing a 3-D release this time.
"This film in particular, it's very intense," Jovovich described, noting that Alice is a multi-faceted character.
"I do a suburban Alice, which is like a perfect housewife with a child, and then there's battle Alice, which is the Alice you see on the posters," said the former model.
"Retribution" will reveal Alice's past as she battles a band of Umbrella Corporation officials who are trying to contain the outbreak of a virus in a secret facility.
The actress took a sensitive stance on filming the movie following this summer's shooting massacre in Aurora, Colorado. One scene in "Retribution" required Jovovich to shoot at pretend zombies in a movie theater as a promotional stunt, but the actress refused to participate.
"They asked me to come out and shoot zombies in the theater and I was like, 'There's absolutely no way I'm doing anything violent in a movie theater,'" she explained, according to New York Daily News.
Twelve people were killed while 58 others were injured during the midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora.
The first "Resident Evil" film grossed over $102 million worldwide, and the franchise is based on the popular video game. The games have been expanded to comic books, novels, sound dramas, live-action and computer-generated feature films, and a range of collectible items such as action figures and strategy guides.
