Jovovich mile

His father is a Serbian doctor, and his mother, Gallina Loginova, a well-known Russian theater actress. Their only daughter, Milla, was born in kyiv on December 17, 1975. When the girl was five years old, the couple emigrated to the United States. At the age of 11, her mother signs her up for acting classes, and Milla is discovered by a photographer who offers her to pose as a model for several fashion magazines. But her mother preferred that she dedicate herself to acting, so she draws on her influences, and she manages to be hired for the films The Moon Junction and The Night Train To Kathmandu . At fifteen she is given her first leading role in Return to the Blue Lagoon. Unfortunately, the artistic and commercial results were not good, and the roles that followed did not have much of a crumb, except for a small one in Chaplin . Things were not going well in the sentimental field either, since her sudden marriage to actor Shawn Andrews lasted less than a year (she had to go to Seville and lost her Mile). Disenchanted, Milla parked the cinema and catwalks for a few years, and released her first album as a singer, ‘The Divine Comedie’. “Being an actress is unstable, today you are in fashion and not tomorrow, that is why I also want to cultivate music”, says the girl.

She will return to the world of fashion in 1995, in need of money, at a bitter moment when her father was sentenced to twenty years in prison for laundering money from the Russian mafia. In 1997 she went to a casting, after a long season without filming, and she managed to be chosen among two thousand candidates to star in The Fifth Element , with Bruce Willis . After filming, she had an affair with its director, the Frenchman Luc Besson , whom she would marry in 1998. This made the actress the absolute protagonist of her next work, Joan of Arc , where the role of the French saint gave her it requires a much greater effort than what she is used to so far. And although that same year Leelee SobieskiHe got more out of the character in the television version, the truth is that Jovovich was not out of tune. And although her work with Luc Besson consecrated Milla Jovovich, they eventually ended up divorcing. At that time the actress was involved in The Million Dollar Hotel , by Wim Wenders , and in Forgiveness , by Michael Winterbottom . In Zoolander , a parody of the world of fashion, the actress performs a small intervention.

One fine day, Milla discovered that her brother was passionate about the video game ‘Resident Evil’. “I was impressed that the protagonist was a woman, armed to the eyebrows, who faced the zombies.” She liked it so much that she decided to investigate if there was a project to take it to the movies. Her representative found out that there was a script in the works. “When I read it, I loved it, and I decided to try to get them to cast me as the lead,” explains Milla. What interested her most about the project is that her character was not the typical action movie girl, “one of those who just ask for help”, but a tough woman “who takes control of the situation”.

The public reacted to the proposal, and immediately the director, Paul WS Anderson , began writing a sequel. Milla had to face a more intense shoot. “In the first part she had to kick the odd thing, but this time we’ve shot sequences of up to twelve minutes of fighting,” says the actress, who had to train for four months to keep up. “It was like I had to enter the Olympiad.” And since the film has been successful again, Milla has starred in another in the same vein, Ultraviolet , which also mixes science fiction and action.