Milla Jovovich almost quits 'Resident Evil' due to Michelle Rodriguez

Six films and more than 1,230 million collected. That is the baggage of the saga of 'Resident Evil' headed by Milla Jovovich giving life to Alice. However, the film adaptation of the video games of Capcom could be very different , since the actress herself has revealed that Michelle Rodriguez was about to be the main protagonist of the function .

 As you recall, Jovovich and Rodriguez gave life to the two main characters of the first installment and the truth is that originally had been hired the first to lead. The issue is that the signing of the second led Paul WS Anderson to write a new version of the script to give it a greater role to the detriment of the Ukrainian actress. The Leelo of 'The Fifth Element' ( 'The Fifth Element') we explained what happened :

I almost left the movie. He was shooting something else and Paul had hired Michelle Rodriguez to play Rain. She came from doing 'Girlfight' and there were certain rumors about a possible Oscar. She was very popular at the time and mine was already four years old at the time, so Paul rewrote the script for her. He basically turned my character into "the girl" and Rain into "the guy". She stayed all her great action scenes and became the new Alice, turning Alice into a companion.

It is not unusual for a movie to change depending on the cast, since it is logical that those responsible want to give more presence to the most popular faces of the same. However, a change as drastic as the one that Jovovich says is still very striking, since here we could talk about destroying who was the main character for it. Of course, the actress complained and this is what happened :

I did not receive the new draft until I was going to Germany from Canada, where I was working. I ended up reading the script in thescriptPlane and by the time we landed in Berlin, it was livid. I went to the hotel and said, "We have to have a great talk or I'll be on a plane tomorrow morning."

Paul came that afternoon and we literally sat for three hours and reviewed the page-by-page script. And I would say, "Okay, why do not we start on the first page?" And I pointed out to him every time I felt that my best scenes had been taken away from me. How our relationship began.

Surely Jovovich's arguments were good, but hard not to conclude that the spark of love eventually prevailed - and eye, still together, married in 2009 and have two children, who also premiered shortly after 'Full Gas' ('The Fast and the Furious'), so his presence did end up giving an added pull to the film.

Of course, now it is impossible to leave behind the idea of ​​what would have been the saga of being led by Rodriguez , which would never again be seen in an adventure of the saga until the fifth installment . For my part, I have always believed that she is a very convincing actress for the action film and that nobody has known how to squeeze that consciously, but also that Jovovich knew to be more than the height.


That said, and why not get Rodriguez in a different character to head the reboot that is already running from the hand of James Wan ? That he is still 38 years old and would continue to give up as long as those responsible do not want the new protagonist to be someone very young ...