Milla Jovovich Almost Quit RESIDENT EVIL Because She Thought Michelle Rodriguez Would Upstage Her
Regardless of what anyone thinks about the Resident Evil films that have been made, I always loved Milla Jovovich in the role of Alice. She's the main reason why I kept coming back to watch these movies. After a 14-year run, she played Alice for the last time in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. James Wan is now set to produce a reboot of the series, which fans seem to be excited about.
There was a point during the developing of the very first Resident Evil film where Jovovich almost dropped out. Why? Because when Michelle Rodriguez's character Rain was added to the script, she thought she had all the best parts and basically thought Rodriguez would upstage her.
While talking to Inverse during a recent interview, Jovovich recounted the story saying:
“I almost quit the movie. I was shooting something else, and Paul had hired Michelle Rodriguez to play Rain. And she had just come off Girlfight and there was Oscar buzz. She was very hot at that moment, and my hotness had sort of been already four years old by that point. So Paul rewrote the script for her. It pretty much made my character 'the girl,' and Rain was 'the guy.' She got all of my big action scenes, and she became like Alice. And then Alice became this tag-along.
"I didn’t get the new draft until I was leaving to go to Germany from Canada, where I was working. I ended up reading the script on the plane, so by the time I landed in Berlin, I was livid. I got to the hotel and said, 'We have to have to a big talk or I’m going to be on a flight tomorrow morning.'
"So Paul ended up coming over that evening and we literally sat for three hours and went through the script, page by page. He was like, 'What do you mean? This didn’t change that much?' So I was like, 'OK, why don’t we start with page one?' I pointed out every time I felt like my great scenes were taken away. That was how we started our relationship."
This all eventually led to Jovovich dating Anderson and then they ended up getting married. Regardless of that, I'm glad that Jovovich didn't quit! I just think it's weird that she got so upset over Rodriguez's involvement. I've heard actors can be vain, but quitting over something like this seems silly. It's like she was building up all this drama for nothing because the first film ended up being the best in the franchise.
Via: EW