Love Resident Evil? Hate Milla As Alice? Read on!

So CVG did a great little interview with Milla Jovovich about her roles as Alice. While part of the very end of the interview had great information about how she grew up loving Dune and Dragonlance (we totally would have been friends) it goes onto her interest in Resident Evil and most importantly that there seems to be a few people out there who just can’t stand her. If you fall into that category know that you are not alone! Not everyone out there loves Milla as Alice.

Is it a challenge evolving a character based on a game?
Well, Alice was never part of the Resident Evil videogame world. When I first met with Paul for the first Resident Evil, I said I wanted to be Jill Valentine. He said: “Yeah, but people don’t know who Jill Valentine is. Only a small group of people play this game and there’s a potentially huge audience out there. But if we have to talk about the history of Jill, there’s such a storyline for those characters – you don’t want to get stuck having to use Capcom’s storylines.” Capcom changes a VP and suddenly the storyline changes. So he needed to create a character that was a bit more like the audience. The innocent coming into this who they can relate to without needing to know her history.

Was there a backlash from hardcore fans who were upset that Alice didn’t originate in the game?
Oh yeah, there are, like, 15 people in the world that spend all day really hating me. Like horrifically hating me with a passion. They’re always writing. I tell them: “Why don’t you just write a script?” But if you ask one hardcore fan about something, they’d disagree with that hardcore fan over there. Another hardcore fan might think the hunters should have been in the movie. And what are the hunters? They’re big frogs. There are a lot of characters in the Resident Evil games that are not very photogenic.

Do you think you’ve won them over at this point?
All I can tell from my twitter page is that there are a lot of fans of Resident Evil that love Alice and the franchise who feel that, if you want the game, play the game. The game is such a sprawling world.
You can’t please everybody and hardcore fans are hardcore fans and you’re never going to please them, no matter how many oversized frogs or giant bees you put in.