Parade magazine has a highly interesting interview with Milla Jovovich up on their website, in which discusses among other things parenthood, her 2006 movie .45 and the importance of controlling what your children see on TV. Definitely worth a look! Excerpt courtesy of Parade.com:
Take charge of what your children watch.
“I think parents need to take a lot more responsibility than they do about whether it’s OK for their children to go to Resident Evil or any other movie with violence or sex or whatever. It’s really easy to blame Hollywood for violence having an effect on kids, but movies would have no power if parents would just set their own standards. And it’s the same with video games.”The video game that jump-started her career.
“Me and my brother Marco would play Resident Evil together and I said to him, ‘This is the perfect vehicle for me.’ I mean, Alice wears a tube top and a mini-skirt and she’s killing zombies. So when I first auditioned, I said to Paul [director Paul W. S. Anderson, her husband] ‘If I don’t get this part my brother is going to kill me because he sees a huge boost in his popularity at school if I play her.’”The strong woman you missed.
“I did this movie .45 that kind of never saw the light of day, it went straight to DVD. I really connected with this character who was a victim of domestic violence but ends up taking control. I think a lot more women today are taking control as opposed to being the kind of stereotypical female who’s weepy and gets abused by men. Women are more educated now about abuse. It’s not like it was in the ’80s. I think they’re much more in control of all aspects of their lives.”












Dirty Girl (2011)
Faces in the Crowd (2010)
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Stone (2010)
Blood Into Wine (2010)
The Fourth Kind (2009)
A Perfect Getaway (2009)

