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Milla's Bio - First Meeting With Besson
Milla was born 12.17.75
in Kiev, Ukraine. Her mother, Galina Loginova, is a movie
actress and her father is a doctor. At the age of five
she and her family moved to Los Angeles. She first
appeared in Two Moon Junction and went on to
appear in Return to the Blue Lagoon,
Kuffs, Chaplin, Dazed and
Confused, and others. Milla has also been modeling
for over 10 years, recently appearing in such well known
ads as The Gap, Calvin Klein, Banana Republic, Iceberg
Jeans, Anna Molinari, and others. She released a
fantastic album in 1994 titled The Divine
Comedy (go buy it!); the follow-up album is
expected in late '97. Her latest film is Luc Besson's
highly anticipated The Fifth Element in which
she plays an alien.
by Colin Cushing
Feathered Friend
Milla Jovovich is best known as the pretty-baby model who filled Brooke Shields' bikini in the 1991 beach bomb Return to the Blue Lagoon (and, like Brooke, she hawked jeans in Calvin Klein ads). She also played supporting roles in Kuffs and Chaplin. So how on earth did she land the female lead in Luc Besson's $75 million-plus sci-fi film The Fifth Element, the mystery-shrouded project that will open this month's 50th-anniversary Cannes Film Festival?
"Luc really didn't see me in this film at all the first time we met," says the 21-year-old Russian-born beauty. "It's easier to sell my face than my talent." When she happened to run into Besson at L.A.'s Cheateau Marmont, she got a second chance. Her screen test convinced him she should star opposite Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman as Fifth's fantasy creature, about which she can say only that it's "a mix between a bird, a lion cub, and an innocent Ewok."
You'd probably have to have recently entered into the mindset of a bird/cub/Ewok to assess Oldman and Willis as Jovovich does: "Gary's much more down-to-earth," she says, "but Bruce is really cool, too." With or without feathers, fur and whatever else she sports in The Fifth Element, Jovovich is possessed of an exotic beauty. "I did my first magazine covers when I was 11, but the boys called me names like Cherry Boobs and Raisin Tits," she recalls. "I'm lucky my mom was on my ass all the time not to betray myself for the glamor and parties and stupid shit."
Having backed herself up with acting lessons, Jovovich now states her ambitions with deceptive simplicity: "I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist."
by Vicki Jo Radovsky (from Movieline May '97)
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