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Yes, this job has its perks. I recently got the chance to toss a couple of questions Milla Jovovich's way regarding her upcoming badass flick Resident Evil (open March 15th, 2002). Here's what she had to say.

ARROW: What’s your favorite horror movie?

MJ: Probably Resident Evil. You know, I’m not a big horror film fan. Sorry for all the horror film fans that are gonna hate me now but it’s just never been my thing. But I love this game and, you know, I just wanted to make this game into a great, really frightening film.

ARROW: This is your first horror movie. How did it feel on the set? Were you ever frightened for real while you were shooting?

MJ: Oh it was so scary. Well, I think it’s pretty disappointing 'cause I was hoping to be much more frightened than I was. You know, for me, I’m much more frightened to go on a L’Oreal commercial than I am on the set of Resident Evil, so, but the zombies were pretty frightening. I mean, it’s not like they were frightening like, oh, I’m scared, it’s more like, you just don’t wanna shake their hand 'cause they’re kind of gross. They just look dirty and sort of diseased and kind of tried to stay away from them as much as possible, which was really sad because they wanted to get to know us and stuff but, you know, it’s just one of those things that it just doesn’t look healthy, it doesn’t look sanitary.

ARROW : Did you try the video game once before you got cast, and what did you think?

MJ: Well, listen, the only reason I wanted to do this movie was because I loved the video game. I mean, I don’t know why else anybody, would wanna do a movie like this, if they weren’t fans of the game. And when my little brother, he’s 13, comes to visit me over the summer, he brings a whole array of games, 'cause he’s a freak. A complete video game fanatic. And, I sit with him and we play these games together, 'cause I don’t wanna leave him too much alone in this world 'cause you know, I don’t want these kids to get any weird ideas. So I would just sit with him and play these games and then he starts playing this one game with this really hot chick in a miniskirt and a tube top, and I’m like who- - what is this. This is really cool, what’s this.

It’s Resident Evil, hello, it’s one of the coolest games ever. I was like, yeah, and it was really cool and Resident Evil’s great because he could be using the control but I’ll be telling him what to do. You know, by the end of the evening, like four of my friends came over and so he’s surrounded by these adults screaming at the TV, going no, here, go over there. You know, he was freaking out. I mean, he just thought we were the biggest dorks in the world, until I realized that they were making a movie of this, and I said, I have to play this girl because my brother is gonna think I’m god, pretty much, if I get the part. So I fought really hard to get this role to impress him pretty much and all his friends.

ARROW: In a nutshell, do you know how faithful the film is with regards to the game?

MJ: Listen. I mean, we tried to make this movie for everyone, not just fans of the game, but saying that, I mean, we are such fans of the game, it was like, we were not gonna let the director do anything that we thought just kind of veered away from the spirit of the game. Paul was very smart when he wrote the script and we didn’t wanna get stuck to any particular story line so we pretty much made a prequel with a whole group of new characters, but that’s pretty much the farthest we get from the game.

I mean, we have shots that are directly taken from Resident Evil One, Two, and Three that are in the movie. I mean, Dobermans smashin’ through the window. You’ve got the Licker falling down backwards from the ceiling. I mean, this is really great. I mean, if you love this game, you’re gonna love this movie because it’s rated R, number one. We don’t shy away from that rating. I mean, we were pushing the boundaries of R, which I’m totally down for because I’ve never done that before and this game is such a sort of rated R game, we didn’t wanna make a PG-13 Resident Evil because then we’d get lynched by the fans, so in a way, this movie is made by the fans for the fans. And the people that don’t know the game are gonna love it too.

ARROW: Muchos gracias bella Milla.

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I'd like to thank the criminally gorgeous Milla for her time. I had a blast watching you kick that Zombie ass in the flick. Looking forward to seeing ya in the sequel!

READ ARROW'S RESIDENT EVIL REVIEW HERE

READ ARROW'S INTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ HERE