Milla Jovovich picks up an unlit cigarette with her left hand, grips a Bic lighter with her right, and levels an intense gaze at me. It takes me only a couple of seconds to volunteer Go for it, dont mind me. She smiles out of the corner of her mouth and says Thank you as she lights up, and I start to get the impression that people dont often say no to Milla. The aura of effortless authority she projects, combined with an ingratiating warmth and easy humor, seems more native to a diplomat or other well-traveled cosmopolitan (she started out as a globe-trotting model) than to a contemporary movie star, most of whom fidget incessantly and approach chatting with film writers as a grim necessity.
As we stretch our legs and begin to talk about the topic at hand her new film, naturally her thoughts continually drift to her twenty month-old daughter, Ever, who arrived after what was reportedly a dangerous, excruciating delivery that began on Halloween night 07 and continued on for three agonizing days. When Milla exclaims at one point that Ever has grown thirty pounds in twenty months! she momentarily becomes so flushed and animated that its safe to conclude that her career is not at the forefront of her thoughts these days. Which is somewhat ironic, since the thirty-three year-olds popularity is at an all-time peak. Next month she begins filming Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth installment of the zombie-splatter franchise that rests entirely on her thin shoulders and that continues to justify its big, effects-heavy budgets with box-office results.
For the last few years, Milla has balanced her Resident Evil success with roles in smaller, often obscure indies such as the 2006 revenge film .45, but that dynamic is now shifting as the broader creative community takes more notice of her. A starring role in a Paul Verhoeven epic set in Czarist Russia is currently being considered, and she will also appear in Stone, a psychological thriller co-starring Edward Norton and Robert De Niro. This week , she stars opposite Steve Zahn in A Perfect Getaway, a tropical whodunit dipped in the self-aware, genre-specific humor popularized in films like Scream. The story follows three couples vacationing in a remote corner of Hawaii, where dead bodies begin to turn up on the beach. As Milla tells it, one of the joys of this particular shoot was allowing others to break their backs doing stunt work while she happily played the new mom card and focused solely on her acting work and enjoying the scenery.
Ryan Stewart: You came to this movie with skills the male actors dont have your action chops. Did you lend them a hand?
Milla Jovovich: Are you kidding? No, not at all. I just let them flounder. I was like You guys take care of yourself, I just had a baby four months ago, I am not doing any action. No, what appealed to me about this particular film was that I didnt have to train and I didnt have to do any of the action stuff since Id just had a child. I got to play a girl who is really sweet and really nice and who has a dark side that comes out, cause everything kind of goes wrong at the end, but for the first two acts of the movie I got to just basically be myself. And thats why I wanted to do it. So, when they tried to get me to do, like, kayaking practice, I was like Okay, one day, and then forget about it after that stunt double all the way.
When I do the Resident Evil movies I do all of my own stunts, because thats a really big franchise for me and its super-important for the fans who love me in those movies to know that Im doing that for them, but a movie like this? This is a character-driven piece for me. It wasnt about me fighting and doing action thats only the last twenty minutes of the film, you know? People arent going to this movie to see explosions and gun fights. I think my fan base is always interested in seeing a different part of me. The people that enjoy my career have enjoyed the different choices that Ive made over the last twenty-five years and they are into watching to see where I go and how I grow as an actor. Theyve also been able to get their Resident Evil fix every couple of years and now theyre gonna get another one but for the smaller films I get to do more versatile things. Obviously, the Resident Evil crowd isnt going to go see all of my movies, but thats the fun of having a versatile career it allows me to do big action and then the smaller pieces as well.
RS: Kayaking can be a pretty intense experience for anyone, not just a new mom any scary moments during your brief forays into harms way?
MJ: The kayaking stuff was scary, for me, because I didnt want to train. It was a little treacherous because we were out in the ocean near the really sharp cliffs Puerto Rico has a lot of really sharp cliffs, thats why its great strategically and defensively. The town we were in was not like some beach town, because of all the sharp, rocky cliffs that are hard to climb. It would be hard to dominate Puerto Rico, like, from the sea. In the Middle Ages Im sure that was great, strategically. Anyway, when we were kayaking the currents were so strong they would just push me into the rocks, and I just said to them Look guys, Im not doing this. Im not here to do stunts and Im not about to injure myself. Im not about to flip this boat over and scratch myself up on all these rocks that are really sharp. So, they had to sort of cheat it and just have my stunt double do that stuff thats really close to the rocks. And then they had me a little further out in the sea to do my close-ups. I have a baby, so Im not gonna take chances.
Before [the baby] I used to be like, hey, whatever, lets just go for it! But Im just not gonna do that now. I mean, its one thing to take chances on a big action film, when you know its all about that, but since its not all about that for this movie, why do I need to take risks? What makes this film interesting is the characters its a thriller. In the end, you can have the best action scenes in the world, but if you dont care about the characters it doesnt matter how much money youve spent on the explosions. Whereas, if you start out with some great characters and then you add in some great action, then the audience will be like Yeah, yeah, yeah go, go, go!
RS: Are you starting to feel the bruises a little more than you used to, the next morning?
MJ: [laughs] Definitely, a little bit. Since I had the baby, its been a bit hard for me to get back into training mode. Its like, Im working all week long and I have a nanny and the baby hasnt been sleeping because shes not a sleeper. This last week weve been teaching her how to sleep without crying, cause we dont want to do the whole Ferber thing; its a much longer, more drawn-out process when you do it that way, because you go in when she cries and then you start waiting a little longer to go in each time she cries. Finally, shell cry for thirty seconds and then put herself back to sleep. You know, shes finally like Meh, whatever. So, now shes finally sleeping, which is great, but for the last twenty months Ive had the nanny during the week and then on the weekends I sleep with her and that means no sleep for me. Its been really hard to have the stamina to do training and still be able to pick up my daughter, who is a big girl thirty pounds in twenty months! After a hard day of training, shell be like Mama, up, up, up! And Im like Ugh, I love you, but geez! Then Ill try to sit down on the couch and again shes like Mama! and I have to get up and go upstairs. Ack!
RS: It sounds like the Resident Evil series forces you to ramp up your exercise regiment every couple of years, no matter what. Has Paul [Millas husband, director Paul W.S. Anderson] decided on directing this new one?
MJ: Yep, Pauls gonna direct this one. The script is done and we start shooting in September. I can tell you that Alices clones are definitely coming back, so theres gonna be ten times more ass-kicking in this one. The real Alice also has some major changes that happen to her that I cant really talk about. Well also see some new characters from the game in this one as well as some old characters from the other films that will make an appearance or not in a mysterious way. There will be a lot of interesting elements to this one.
RS: You might want to consider bringing back that outfit with the cowboy chaps.
MJ: [laughs] Itll be better than that. Trust me, were taking it to the next level.
RS: People love to see you in angry-mode, especially in those movies. They like it when you get to the point that youre not gonna take it anymore. Do you have a temper for real?
MJ: I have a temper, of course, but it takes a lot. Im very non-confrontational for the most part, and I think some people might get lulled into a false sense of comfort. Im very cool, for the most part. Im sort of like Oh, that was late? That didnt arrive? My airplane stuff got screwed up? Hmmmokay. Im pretty cool, but Im like this [raising her hand to different levels] coolcoolcoolthen I blow up. There are some people who are always all over peoples butts; theyre like You didnt do this? You didnt do that? This is cold! But with me Im usually more like [rolls eyes] Fine, fine, fine but then at one point I might be really tired or have just finished working hard or maybe Im sick or whatever, and Ill suddenly just go Ahhhhhhh!
RS: You and Steve Zahn make for a pretty unlikely couple in A Perfect Getaway, dont you think? I heard a few people cracking jokes about that earlier.
MJ: Well, I think its actually rare for you to see a model dating another model. Or some really gorgeous guy with a really gorgeous girl. Usually, if thats the case theyre both like sixteen or seventeen years old. I think, for the most part, women are attracted to men who arent the typical model type, in terms of looks. I think, quite the opposite, a lot of women would be like Whoa, youre way too manicured and too into your hair and your facial routine. Ive always been attracted to guys who are just normal guys. Steve is an amazing guy, hes hilarious, hes good-looking; hes not a model, but that would be a plus for me. Id be more apt to be attracted to a guy like Steve than some Abercrombie & Fitch guy, you know? Besides the fact that you dont see their faces in those ads, just the look of their abs is a little too much for me.
RS: Im guessing youre not a Twilight fangirl, in that case.
MJ: Not yet! Ive actually been trying my hardest to get away from the whole Twilight thing, because Im an avid reader I was a huge Anne Rice fan and Im sure that if I did start on Twilight that would be it for me, for like the next year. Id have to take, like, a year off and just do nothing except be into the Twilight series. As a mom, at this point, Ive had to stop reading at 8:00pm and then Ill say to myself, okay, Im just gonna read a few chapters and then go to bed then suddenly its three in the morning and Im still reading. Then Im a zombie all the next day. So, Ive had to just kind of put an end to all of that. Maybe when my baby gets a little bit older, Ill be able to have more time to focus on getting absorbed in some page-turners.
RS: Speaking of novels, arent you and Paul Verhoeven still trying to get an adaptation of that Russian book, Azazel, off the ground?
MJ: Were trying, but at this point its pretty much dead. Weve been trying to get it off the ground for a few years, but Paul finally just wasnt getting along with the producers. They werent agreeing internally even on, to me, stupid stuff like line producer stuff, location stuff, and the money stuff. Now hes taken on another film he had to because they just werent coming to any kind of agreement. So, for the moment [The] Winter Queen is on hold. Hopefully, maybe when Paul is done with his other film we can get it back up and running.
RS: Is it a goal of yours to tell Russian or Ukrainian stories?
MJ: Oh, I would love to. Ive really been wanting to find the right one to do and I thought that Winter Queen could sort of be a perfect way for me to slowly get into playing an Eastern European character. Its definitely something that Im very interested in. Id love to play a Russian girl to sort of give that to my Russian heritage. I do think a lot of Russian people are like, why doesnt she ever play Russian characters?
RS: Id imagine that one of the biggest challenges of your role in A Perfect Getaway was being mindful of the movies huge twists not contradicting them with your acting choices.
MJ: Yeah, thats where [writer/director] David Twohy really helped out a lot. As an actor you have to be so in the moment that sometimes you can forget about the big picture. But thats the nature of our job were not really supposed to be thinking about the big picture all the time. Thats why directors are so important, because theyre thinking about where your character is coming from and where theyre going in the story. There were plenty of times when we would try out different lines in different ways to make sure that we had choices in the cutting room of how much to show or how little to show.
RS: They say youre a stickler for rehearsal you like to really dig in and rehearse a lot.
MJ: Who told you that? Thats true, and a lot of people dont agree with me. Everyone has their own process but for me I definitely need to read lines. And its not like when Im rehearsing Im giving all the emotion in the rehearsal and Im doing everything Im gonna do on the set not at all. Its just reading the dialogue and hearing it come out of your mouth and feeling comfortable with your own voice. A lot of times when Im not prepared [raises her voice a level] my voice starts to rise like this because Im getting nervous. Thats when I dont really know what choices Im making. I have to know where Im going and what choice Im making for this or that line. I can say [flat, uninterested voice] Hey, hows it going? or I can go [interested, enthusiastic] Hi, how are ya! and its a totally different thing.
I need to be comfortable because up here [in the higher register] Im not telling you the truth its not really me. But if I say Hey, hows it going in my regular voice then its coming from my gut and then it just is what it is its just me. When I prepare for a part I tend to watch myself even in my normal, everyday life. If a guest comes over, Ill say Hi, my names Milla, nice to meet you! and then later on Ill find myself trying to remember just how I said that, so that if I have a scene where I have to introduce myself to someone I can be like Hmm, remember that time my aunt came over and she brought her cousin who Id never met and I had to introduce myself? Now how did I do that? [laughs]
RS: I think what I responded to most in this film was its humor, which you also seemed to really understand and play to. Its very self-referential, and gives the movie a light tone.
MJ: Yeah, a lot of it is tongue in cheek, in a sense. And there are also things you only realize after the movies over, and then youre like Oh God, those people were just completely screwing with each other! The film also takes you back, I think, to an older school of filmmaking where its not at all about explosions or even that much about chase scenes just very character-driven. Its about the tension of the situation and not knowing who is telling the truth. Are these people really who they say they are? Thats great for an actor, to get to play a character with a lot of different dimensions. Its a lot like real life to play a character who could be one way in one situation, but they might also have a darker side that you wouldnt necessarily know from only meeting them for a few days, you know? Thats a quality I really liked you have people that seem friendly on the outside, and then you get to know them and start to see other sides that you had no idea existed. That is very much the way life is.
A Perfect Getaway opens in theaters everywhere this Friday.
As we stretch our legs and begin to talk about the topic at hand her new film, naturally her thoughts continually drift to her twenty month-old daughter, Ever, who arrived after what was reportedly a dangerous, excruciating delivery that began on Halloween night 07 and continued on for three agonizing days. When Milla exclaims at one point that Ever has grown thirty pounds in twenty months! she momentarily becomes so flushed and animated that its safe to conclude that her career is not at the forefront of her thoughts these days. Which is somewhat ironic, since the thirty-three year-olds popularity is at an all-time peak. Next month she begins filming Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth installment of the zombie-splatter franchise that rests entirely on her thin shoulders and that continues to justify its big, effects-heavy budgets with box-office results.
For the last few years, Milla has balanced her Resident Evil success with roles in smaller, often obscure indies such as the 2006 revenge film .45, but that dynamic is now shifting as the broader creative community takes more notice of her. A starring role in a Paul Verhoeven epic set in Czarist Russia is currently being considered, and she will also appear in Stone, a psychological thriller co-starring Edward Norton and Robert De Niro. This week , she stars opposite Steve Zahn in A Perfect Getaway, a tropical whodunit dipped in the self-aware, genre-specific humor popularized in films like Scream. The story follows three couples vacationing in a remote corner of Hawaii, where dead bodies begin to turn up on the beach. As Milla tells it, one of the joys of this particular shoot was allowing others to break their backs doing stunt work while she happily played the new mom card and focused solely on her acting work and enjoying the scenery.
Ryan Stewart: You came to this movie with skills the male actors dont have your action chops. Did you lend them a hand?
Milla Jovovich: Are you kidding? No, not at all. I just let them flounder. I was like You guys take care of yourself, I just had a baby four months ago, I am not doing any action. No, what appealed to me about this particular film was that I didnt have to train and I didnt have to do any of the action stuff since Id just had a child. I got to play a girl who is really sweet and really nice and who has a dark side that comes out, cause everything kind of goes wrong at the end, but for the first two acts of the movie I got to just basically be myself. And thats why I wanted to do it. So, when they tried to get me to do, like, kayaking practice, I was like Okay, one day, and then forget about it after that stunt double all the way.
When I do the Resident Evil movies I do all of my own stunts, because thats a really big franchise for me and its super-important for the fans who love me in those movies to know that Im doing that for them, but a movie like this? This is a character-driven piece for me. It wasnt about me fighting and doing action thats only the last twenty minutes of the film, you know? People arent going to this movie to see explosions and gun fights. I think my fan base is always interested in seeing a different part of me. The people that enjoy my career have enjoyed the different choices that Ive made over the last twenty-five years and they are into watching to see where I go and how I grow as an actor. Theyve also been able to get their Resident Evil fix every couple of years and now theyre gonna get another one but for the smaller films I get to do more versatile things. Obviously, the Resident Evil crowd isnt going to go see all of my movies, but thats the fun of having a versatile career it allows me to do big action and then the smaller pieces as well.
RS: Kayaking can be a pretty intense experience for anyone, not just a new mom any scary moments during your brief forays into harms way?
MJ: The kayaking stuff was scary, for me, because I didnt want to train. It was a little treacherous because we were out in the ocean near the really sharp cliffs Puerto Rico has a lot of really sharp cliffs, thats why its great strategically and defensively. The town we were in was not like some beach town, because of all the sharp, rocky cliffs that are hard to climb. It would be hard to dominate Puerto Rico, like, from the sea. In the Middle Ages Im sure that was great, strategically. Anyway, when we were kayaking the currents were so strong they would just push me into the rocks, and I just said to them Look guys, Im not doing this. Im not here to do stunts and Im not about to injure myself. Im not about to flip this boat over and scratch myself up on all these rocks that are really sharp. So, they had to sort of cheat it and just have my stunt double do that stuff thats really close to the rocks. And then they had me a little further out in the sea to do my close-ups. I have a baby, so Im not gonna take chances.
Before [the baby] I used to be like, hey, whatever, lets just go for it! But Im just not gonna do that now. I mean, its one thing to take chances on a big action film, when you know its all about that, but since its not all about that for this movie, why do I need to take risks? What makes this film interesting is the characters its a thriller. In the end, you can have the best action scenes in the world, but if you dont care about the characters it doesnt matter how much money youve spent on the explosions. Whereas, if you start out with some great characters and then you add in some great action, then the audience will be like Yeah, yeah, yeah go, go, go!
RS: Are you starting to feel the bruises a little more than you used to, the next morning?
MJ: [laughs] Definitely, a little bit. Since I had the baby, its been a bit hard for me to get back into training mode. Its like, Im working all week long and I have a nanny and the baby hasnt been sleeping because shes not a sleeper. This last week weve been teaching her how to sleep without crying, cause we dont want to do the whole Ferber thing; its a much longer, more drawn-out process when you do it that way, because you go in when she cries and then you start waiting a little longer to go in each time she cries. Finally, shell cry for thirty seconds and then put herself back to sleep. You know, shes finally like Meh, whatever. So, now shes finally sleeping, which is great, but for the last twenty months Ive had the nanny during the week and then on the weekends I sleep with her and that means no sleep for me. Its been really hard to have the stamina to do training and still be able to pick up my daughter, who is a big girl thirty pounds in twenty months! After a hard day of training, shell be like Mama, up, up, up! And Im like Ugh, I love you, but geez! Then Ill try to sit down on the couch and again shes like Mama! and I have to get up and go upstairs. Ack!
RS: It sounds like the Resident Evil series forces you to ramp up your exercise regiment every couple of years, no matter what. Has Paul [Millas husband, director Paul W.S. Anderson] decided on directing this new one?
MJ: Yep, Pauls gonna direct this one. The script is done and we start shooting in September. I can tell you that Alices clones are definitely coming back, so theres gonna be ten times more ass-kicking in this one. The real Alice also has some major changes that happen to her that I cant really talk about. Well also see some new characters from the game in this one as well as some old characters from the other films that will make an appearance or not in a mysterious way. There will be a lot of interesting elements to this one.
RS: You might want to consider bringing back that outfit with the cowboy chaps.
MJ: [laughs] Itll be better than that. Trust me, were taking it to the next level.
RS: People love to see you in angry-mode, especially in those movies. They like it when you get to the point that youre not gonna take it anymore. Do you have a temper for real?
MJ: I have a temper, of course, but it takes a lot. Im very non-confrontational for the most part, and I think some people might get lulled into a false sense of comfort. Im very cool, for the most part. Im sort of like Oh, that was late? That didnt arrive? My airplane stuff got screwed up? Hmmmokay. Im pretty cool, but Im like this [raising her hand to different levels] coolcoolcoolthen I blow up. There are some people who are always all over peoples butts; theyre like You didnt do this? You didnt do that? This is cold! But with me Im usually more like [rolls eyes] Fine, fine, fine but then at one point I might be really tired or have just finished working hard or maybe Im sick or whatever, and Ill suddenly just go Ahhhhhhh!
RS: You and Steve Zahn make for a pretty unlikely couple in A Perfect Getaway, dont you think? I heard a few people cracking jokes about that earlier.
MJ: Well, I think its actually rare for you to see a model dating another model. Or some really gorgeous guy with a really gorgeous girl. Usually, if thats the case theyre both like sixteen or seventeen years old. I think, for the most part, women are attracted to men who arent the typical model type, in terms of looks. I think, quite the opposite, a lot of women would be like Whoa, youre way too manicured and too into your hair and your facial routine. Ive always been attracted to guys who are just normal guys. Steve is an amazing guy, hes hilarious, hes good-looking; hes not a model, but that would be a plus for me. Id be more apt to be attracted to a guy like Steve than some Abercrombie & Fitch guy, you know? Besides the fact that you dont see their faces in those ads, just the look of their abs is a little too much for me.
RS: Im guessing youre not a Twilight fangirl, in that case.
MJ: Not yet! Ive actually been trying my hardest to get away from the whole Twilight thing, because Im an avid reader I was a huge Anne Rice fan and Im sure that if I did start on Twilight that would be it for me, for like the next year. Id have to take, like, a year off and just do nothing except be into the Twilight series. As a mom, at this point, Ive had to stop reading at 8:00pm and then Ill say to myself, okay, Im just gonna read a few chapters and then go to bed then suddenly its three in the morning and Im still reading. Then Im a zombie all the next day. So, Ive had to just kind of put an end to all of that. Maybe when my baby gets a little bit older, Ill be able to have more time to focus on getting absorbed in some page-turners.
RS: Speaking of novels, arent you and Paul Verhoeven still trying to get an adaptation of that Russian book, Azazel, off the ground?
MJ: Were trying, but at this point its pretty much dead. Weve been trying to get it off the ground for a few years, but Paul finally just wasnt getting along with the producers. They werent agreeing internally even on, to me, stupid stuff like line producer stuff, location stuff, and the money stuff. Now hes taken on another film he had to because they just werent coming to any kind of agreement. So, for the moment [The] Winter Queen is on hold. Hopefully, maybe when Paul is done with his other film we can get it back up and running.
RS: Is it a goal of yours to tell Russian or Ukrainian stories?
MJ: Oh, I would love to. Ive really been wanting to find the right one to do and I thought that Winter Queen could sort of be a perfect way for me to slowly get into playing an Eastern European character. Its definitely something that Im very interested in. Id love to play a Russian girl to sort of give that to my Russian heritage. I do think a lot of Russian people are like, why doesnt she ever play Russian characters?
RS: Id imagine that one of the biggest challenges of your role in A Perfect Getaway was being mindful of the movies huge twists not contradicting them with your acting choices.
MJ: Yeah, thats where [writer/director] David Twohy really helped out a lot. As an actor you have to be so in the moment that sometimes you can forget about the big picture. But thats the nature of our job were not really supposed to be thinking about the big picture all the time. Thats why directors are so important, because theyre thinking about where your character is coming from and where theyre going in the story. There were plenty of times when we would try out different lines in different ways to make sure that we had choices in the cutting room of how much to show or how little to show.
RS: They say youre a stickler for rehearsal you like to really dig in and rehearse a lot.
MJ: Who told you that? Thats true, and a lot of people dont agree with me. Everyone has their own process but for me I definitely need to read lines. And its not like when Im rehearsing Im giving all the emotion in the rehearsal and Im doing everything Im gonna do on the set not at all. Its just reading the dialogue and hearing it come out of your mouth and feeling comfortable with your own voice. A lot of times when Im not prepared [raises her voice a level] my voice starts to rise like this because Im getting nervous. Thats when I dont really know what choices Im making. I have to know where Im going and what choice Im making for this or that line. I can say [flat, uninterested voice] Hey, hows it going? or I can go [interested, enthusiastic] Hi, how are ya! and its a totally different thing.
I need to be comfortable because up here [in the higher register] Im not telling you the truth its not really me. But if I say Hey, hows it going in my regular voice then its coming from my gut and then it just is what it is its just me. When I prepare for a part I tend to watch myself even in my normal, everyday life. If a guest comes over, Ill say Hi, my names Milla, nice to meet you! and then later on Ill find myself trying to remember just how I said that, so that if I have a scene where I have to introduce myself to someone I can be like Hmm, remember that time my aunt came over and she brought her cousin who Id never met and I had to introduce myself? Now how did I do that? [laughs]
RS: I think what I responded to most in this film was its humor, which you also seemed to really understand and play to. Its very self-referential, and gives the movie a light tone.
MJ: Yeah, a lot of it is tongue in cheek, in a sense. And there are also things you only realize after the movies over, and then youre like Oh God, those people were just completely screwing with each other! The film also takes you back, I think, to an older school of filmmaking where its not at all about explosions or even that much about chase scenes just very character-driven. Its about the tension of the situation and not knowing who is telling the truth. Are these people really who they say they are? Thats great for an actor, to get to play a character with a lot of different dimensions. Its a lot like real life to play a character who could be one way in one situation, but they might also have a darker side that you wouldnt necessarily know from only meeting them for a few days, you know? Thats a quality I really liked you have people that seem friendly on the outside, and then you get to know them and start to see other sides that you had no idea existed. That is very much the way life is.
A Perfect Getaway opens in theaters everywhere this Friday.
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Nice interview.
motorfirebox said:
what really knocks me out about Milla Jovovich is that she says things like
Puerto Rico has a lot of really sharp cliffs, thats why its great strategically and defensively.
I am a huge Mil fan but that comment was a bit -- well I'll just laugh it off. I do not remember Puerto Rico being of much military recognition during the Mille Ages ;-)
She rules, I am stoked that another Resident Evil film is due soon!
-fB