The A.V. Club Interview with Milla Jovovich ("Stone")

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On-screen, actress-model Milla Jovovich has been many things: a dippy stoner-folkie, a pure-as-the-driven-snow Catholic martyr, a vigilant zombie-slayer. But in her latest film, the bleak, ruminative drama Stone, her character isn’t so easily defined. As Lucetta, a morally challenged free spirit whose husband (Edward Norton) prods her to convince his parole officer (Robert De Niro) to release him, she’s effervescent and dark, an innocent and a seductress. Reviews of Stone have been mixed, but they tend to praise Jovovich’s gutsy, unexpected dramatic turn. (This, just a month after Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth installment of the action franchise she carries, celebrated its biggest worldwide opening yet.) The A.V. Club caught up with the ebullient Jovovich to explain her unlikely career trajectory and how her latest role is possibly her most humbling.

The A.V. Club: Your Stone character is fairly complicated. What’s your take on her?
Milla Jovovich: My first take on her was that she’s kind of like this light in the script—very joyous and fun and tactile and wild and free—in comparison to the other personalities surrounding her, who are all sort of caged in their worlds. I was very attracted to that freedom she has.

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'Stone' Star Milla Jovovich Recalls Fluffing De Niro's Pillow

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'It was like, 'Bob are you OK? Can I fix the pillow?' ' actress says of shooting steamy love scenes.



Far from the outside looking in, some might argue that one of the biggest perks of being an actor is getting to "hook up" with a variety of partners for cinematic love scenes. And while the end results are often highlight-reel material (a.k.a. our coveted MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss), most actors agree that they're not as sexy as fans make them out to be.

Speaking to that subject, MTV News recently caught up with "Stone" actress Milla Jovovich, who shares a few steamy moments with Hollywood legend Robert De Niro. In the film, Jovovich plays the wife of a convicted arsonist (Edward Norton) who is sent by her husband to try and manipulate his parole officer (De Niro) into granting him an early release. We asked Milla about the scenes, specifically how she and De Niro prepared for the racy sequence.

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Milla Jovovich on 'The Three Musketeers,' 'Resident Evil,' and Ed Norton’s Cornrows

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Hollywood’s preeminent zombie-hunting ex-model, Milla Jovovich, took time out of her busy shooting schedule on the Germany-based set of The Three Musketeers, her husband Paul W.S. Anderson’s foray into the realm of period-accurate, 3D adaptations of cherished literary classics, to chat with me about her gripping new drama Stone, in which she stars alongside Edward Norton and Robert De Niro. To her credit, she successfully parried my repeated attempts to bait her into making fun of the curious hairstyle that adorns Norton’s head in the film. You win this round, Jovovich.

Your role in Stone is quite a bit different than what we’ve grown used to seeing from you. I was curious about how it came up on your radar, and were you surprised that it did?
I definitely was really happy to get the script. Since having my baby, I’ve felt very much more open to just going out, performing, writing and being an artist in general, and feeling like this newfound confidence as a mom and a newfound confidence in myself. Part of that bled over into my film career in the sense that I really wanted to go out and audition for things, really keep on my toes. I was really just into the whole process of being a performer again, just going out and reading for a lot of different stuff. When this came up, of course I just jumped on it ... I compelled by these sort of flawed personalities and these grey areas and the fact the script didn’t really put everything in a neat little package for people. It’s very rare that you get scripts that don’t sort of shove an opinion down your throat, and this is one of them. So I was very interested in the subject matter and very interested in the characters and of course, working with Edward and Bob was unbelievably attractive. What actor wouldn’t want to work with such amazing artists?

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Milla Jovovich Dyes Her Hair Strawberry Blonde

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For her new role in an adaption of The Three Musketeers, Milla Jovovich took her hair to a lighter, brighter shade of strawberry. “Let’s face it,” Jovovich told PEOPLE on Tuesday at N.Y.C. premiere of the modern jailhouse drama, Stone. “17th-century hair kind of sucks.” So to make her old-school onscreen coifs more fun, Jovovich recently brightened up her tresses by going “strawberry auburn” to star alongside Orlando Bloom, Christoph Waltz, and Luke Evans in the The Three Musketeers remake.

“All the girls in the movie are blonde. So I wanted to go for strawberry auburn. Not everybody has that color today,” she explained of her new hair tone, created by her longtime stylist Philip Carreon. “And I liked the idea of something on the blonde side, because it was only in the 18th and 19th centuries that hair got really interesting.”

And for her glamorous look on the red carpet Tuesday night, Jovovich’s hair was trimmed into a long, lopsided bob. And can they work her current cut into a period coif? “Oh, yeah,” said Jovovich, who will play M’Lady de Winter. “We do a half-wig and curl my hair in these beautiful-looking curls. It’s gorgeous.” Tell us: What do you think of Milla’s new strawberry shade? –Jeffrey Slonim

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'Afterlife' isn't over at the foreign box office

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Sony's 'Resident Evil' franchise past $500 mil worldwide

While the international box office saw a changing of the guard just below the top spot, the latest offering in Sony's "Resident Evil" franchise, 3D pic "Afterlife," scared up top coin at foreign wickets over the Oct. 1-3 weekend, raising up $15 million for an international cume of $182.9 million from 47 territories.
Top spot for "Afterlife" was Japan, where the fright fest improved 6% in its fourth frame to $3.1 million for a cume of $45.7 million. In Mexico, the film scored a chart-topping $1.2 million, down just 38% in its third week for a cume of $10 million.

"Afterlife" stands as "Resident Evil's" highest-grossing installment, both domestically and abroad. Overall, the franchise has proved to be a highly lucrative asset for Sony, cuming north of $500 million worldwide for all four pics. [SOURCE]