EXCLUSIVE: Actress Milla Jovovich Says She Could Hardly Fit Into Her ‘Three Musketeers’ Costumes!

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I never realized how painful wearing a corset could be until I got the chance to chat with the star, who told us the costume even cut off her circulation!



We got to sit down with Milla Jovovich at a tea party to celebrate her latest campaign for Mercedes-Benz at Lincoln Center during Fashion Week on Sept. 11, where the star filled us in on what it was really like being on the The Three Musketeers set!

“The costume is a big deal for the girls on this picture and I have to do some action sequences with it too,” she said. Although the costumes may look beautiful, wearing them was an ordeal!

“We’ve [the women on set] been trying to figure out the best way to fit in our dresses,” she said. “I sent the assistants out to Ikea to get big, overstuffed arm chairs so we could prop ourselves up and get little coffee tables so we can put our stuff on there.”

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New 'Resident Evil' sequel rules world box office

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(Reuters) - "Resident Evil: Afterlife," the fourth film in a zombie franchise starring Milla Jovovich, topped the worldwide box office during its first weekend, but could not prevent overall sales in North America from hitting their lowest level in two years.



The videogame-derived film earned $73.2 million, of which $27.7 million came from the United States and Canada where it was the only major new release, distributor Screen Gems said Sunday. Even with earnings boosted by premium pricing for 3D engagements, the gross handily beat forecasts and the openings for the previous films in the series.

Internationally, "Afterlife" earned $45.5 million from 29 markets, opening at No. 1 in most of them, including Japan ($15.5 million), Russia ($9.5 million), Spain ($3.4 million) and Britain ($2.9 million). The previous film, "Resident Evil: Extinction," opened to $23.7 million in North America, and $17.4 million in those same 29 markets two years ago. It ended up with $146 million worldwide.

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Cinemtical.com Reviews for "Afterlife (2010)" & "Stone (2010)"

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TWO REVIEWS: From Cinematical.com for Milla's 2010 films, Resident Evil: Afterlife and Stone. Their review for the latter is pretty much glowing, implicating the buzz for this film (however mixed it might end up being) is pretty much solid, and while the review for Afterlife is neither glowing or sarcastic to the point of obvious hatred, it manages to point out the negatives and positives of the film while still saying it'll be a film to enjoy if your into this type of action/horror genre.

A fondness for the games isn't required to enjoy the film, though. The aforementioned prison-set stretch is full of cool moments and really shows off the one thing Paul W.S. Anderson does better than many of his peers: production design. There's a number of reasons he's become a punching bag for fanboys (his screenwriting, for one, comes up short), but he has a clear love for placing his actors in real sets where they interact with real explosions and real creature and gore effects. The sad truth is that unlike a lot of commercial directors these days, Anderson doesn't just do everything in post-production, and that's more than admirable, it's impressive...

Yet even with problems minor (the distracting make-up) and major (an unambitious, repetitive score) piling up left and right,Resident Evil: Afterlife still squeaks out enough to be entertaining. It tries to be the slickest, coolest rated-R zombie shooting gallery around and it mostly works. That may not be something everyone is looking for, but those who are will find enough enjoyable things about the film to make it worthwhile. [READ MORE]

And yet who would ever imagine the day when DeNiro would be upstaged by Milla Jovovich?

Certainly one of the luckiest actresses thanks to the semi-successful Resident Evil franchise and a couple of convenient marriages, Jovovich has never earned much praise aside from being an object of beauty. In Stone she easily delivers her best performance since her little-seen turn opposite Adrien Brody in the ventriloquist comedy, Dummy. Lucetta is a very tricky character. Aside from confirming our fantasies that our attractive grade school teachers were really freaks at home, Lucetta is a lost little girl who is nevertheless in control of her desires. The way she manipulates Jack over the phone by shifting to whispery tones is sexier than any photo spread Jovovich has ever participated in and is a lynchpin moment for a performance we have to watch very carefully. [SOURCE]