Why Milla Jovovich ‘punch’ the husband of Paul Ws Anderson

Milla Jovovich and husband Paul WS Anderson Over the years they have worked nine times – but their first creative cooperation did not start so smoothly.

“There was one point during the first.” Resident Evil Where did I and the director of the photograph of the black eyes were because Milla struck us, ”Anderson, 60, only shared Us weekly latest In an interview Series with Jovovich, 49, now in newsstands.

While Anderson, who directed the film, explained that Jovovich’s punch was not “in anger”, Jovovich admitted that her husband “asked” for it – literally.

“They got me in an impossible situation, ”she explained. “Paul said,” Just hit the camera right as if I were a camera. “But he didn’t have a camera, so I just hit him right into my eyes.”

But Anderson had a different view of incorrect communication. “Well, I imagined that (Milla) would imagine that there was a camera in front of me.” She would take it about “so much” space, but she just imagined that the back of my head was a lens, “he argued with a laugh. “And (then), just, Wham. So I saw how strong her strikes could be in real life. ”

Jovovich played as Alice in a post-apocalyptic thriller of 2002, a surviving global pandemic that faces the defeat of the legions of the zombie created by its former workplace. She would become the face of franchises across seven films – all are directed by Anderson.

While Jovovich is synonymous Resident Evil Now, landing was not as easy as she expected. Jovovich joked that she was irritated by the fact that Anderson performed an audition for a role after playing the opposite Bruce Willis in Fifth elementBut in the end she agreed to the terms and conditions.

“She made (read a role).” She read with a very good friend, Jason Isaacs“Anderson recalled from the audition process. “And he was in the city and he likes,” I want to come and help anything. “So he read with Mill.”

Once the reading ended it was clear White lotus star That chemistry between Anderson and Jovovic was not just in front of the camera.

“Milla left and Jason turned to me and said,” Well, that’s then. “And I said,” So you think it’s great for the movie? ” And he said, “Oh, forget the movie. Our. “So he felt there was some electricity in the room, and he was wrong.”

Anderson and Jovovich continued to link to the node in 2009 and have been welcomed by three daughters since then: Ever, 17, Dashiel, 9 and Osian, 5 have also cooperated on various projects outside the Universe of Resident Evil Universe, including 2011 Three Musketeers2020 Monster Hunter and 2025 In lost countries.

For Anderson, the best part of the work is so closely next to his wife, just before he really begins on stage -co -design chaos.

“The first half an hour, when it is only you and I on the stage with a few cups of coffee before the crew appears, where we are talking about this day, and it is pure creativity without 150 people, asking questions,” Jovovičvi said, noting that the quieter moments are for both of them. “It’s a great time to create, connect with our surroundings, contact with the set.” Really understand. ”

The couple managed to do everything and another for their latest movie, In lost countriesthat hit theaters 7th March and serves as a film adaptation for George RR Martin’s A story with the same name. Jovovich plays as a powerful witch Gray Alys Dave Bautista’s Quiet cowboy Hunter Boyce, with Anderson on the director’s chair.

As for how the couple was involved in the film, Anderson admitted it was Jovovich, who brought him the idea and introduced him to the screenwriter Constantin Werner. Jovovich called it a real “passionate” project that lasted almost seven years.

“For me, the film was a great combination of two things I love.” It was an adult fairy tale where (the topic is), “Be careful what you want because bad things will happen,” Anderson explained. “(A) because it is the story of George RR Martin and it was also western. I felt as if George wrote this story about two characters that do not necessarily trust each other, which must go together on a mission and learn to respect each other and take care of themselves. ”

He continued, “That really reminded me of the films I loved as a child. As Good, bad and uglY, Two mules for sara sara – these iconic, strong 1960s, 1970s. ”

As far as he is concerned to join his husband again, Jovovich quickly shared exactly what he loves as much as he is his muse.

“I respect and love when directors know what they want,” she said. “One of the first pieces of the direction he gave me to the first residents was:” Never do it again. “… And I never did. And it wasn’t even such a thing.”

He is now in theaters in lost countries.