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Wentworth Miller spent four seasons breaking out of prisons on the small screen on Fox’s ‘Prison Break’ and now he’s in theaters blasting virus-infected zombies alongside Milla Jovovich in ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’, the fourth film in the video game-turned-movie franchise. However, the only screen the actor is interested in these days is the one next to his keyboard.
Miller, 38, is now focusing all of his creative efforts on screenwriting. After wrapping ‘Afterlife’ last December, Miller headed east for the holidays and found himself with a totally cleared work schedule. He says he didn’t quite know why that was until he started writing his first script for a horror/family drama called ‘Stoker’, about a teen girl whose odd uncle returns to her clan full of family secrets after her father’s death.
Here’s a new video interview with the Resident Evil: Afterlife’ cast from Next TV Taiwan.
BEVERLY HILLS, California – I first heard the name Wentworth Miller (which is a bit hard to remember, isn’t it?) from Kris Aquino who mentioned that name in my “body talk” with her when, asked what she did in her free time, she said that she and her son Joshua watched a lot of TV, among them ‘Prison Break’ in which Miller played the role of Michael Scofield, a caring brother who created an elaborate scheme to help his brother escape death row after being found guilty of a crime he did not commit.
“Wow, he’s my crush”, Kris exclaimed when I told her that I just did an exclusive Conversation with Miller at, as usual, a suite at Four Seasons during the ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’ junket together with Milla Jovovich (who reprises her role as the deadly Alice) and Ali Larter. Written, directed and produced by Milla’s husband Paul W.S. Anderson, ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’ (the fourth installment of the franchise, produced by Screen Gems, Davis Films/Impact Picture and Constantin Films, released locally by Pioneer Films, now showing nationwide), inspired by the popular video game, is set in a burned-out Los Angeles overrun by thousands of the undead, and Alice finds herself facing a threat she has never anticipated.
As a refresher, Kris gave me a three-CD package containing ‘Prison Break’s first season and it helped me complete this story.
Wentworth Miller was a main character for four seasons of TV’s ‘Prison Break’, but he knows his role as the new man in the ‘Resident Evil’ film franchise, starring Milla Jovovich and based on the popular zombie-shooting video games. “Milla’s the main event, I knew that going in, and was very appreciative of that dynamic”, says Miller, who plays Chris Redfield to Jovovich’s action heroine Alice in ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’, the fourth movie in the series opening in theaters today. “It was purely about the stunts and the physicality of telling that particular story, whereas with ‘Prison Break’, being one of the lead actors on this one-hour drama for four years, if I could be frank sometimes it got challenging being one of the guys pulling the cart. There was a lot of extra responsibility involved that sometimes competed with or even detracted from the creative process of acting on camera”. Nowadays, though, Miller is working behind the scenes as a fledgling screenwriter. So far he’s got two scripts – the horror/family drama ‘Stoker’ and its prequel ‘Uncle Charlie’ – that Miller says are “the most creatively satisfying things I’ve ever done, and that includes anything I’ve done as an actor”. We talked for an item on this weekend’s Who’s News page, but read below for more on his career shift and check out this behind-the-scenes ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’ featurette with Miller, Jovovich and director Paul W.S. Anderson.
‘Resident Evil’ is a very popular thing for many gamers. Do you fall into that category?
I’ve never been a gamer. My parents really put an emphasis on homework growing up, so there wasn’t really time for video games or comic books. Now I feel at the ripe old age of 38 that I’ve pretty much missed my window of opportunity. [Laughs] I do get a kick out of being part of a video game franchise.
Atop most best-of lists of video-game-to-film adaptations, you’re sure to find ‘Resident Evil’, an impressive feat when you consider that Hollywood has had so little luck turning games into box-office gold.
Witness ‘Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time’, which saw a big budget ($200 million plus), a big studio (Disney) and a big name (Jake Gyllenhaal) declared one of the flops of summer 2010.
Then there’s ‘Resident Evil’, a franchise whose fourth movie opens today. According to boxofficemojo.com’s list of top movie franchises, the first three films have grossed $142 million, with ‘Resident Evil: Apocalypse’ the highest-grossing single film at $51.2 million. The HD trailer on YouTube – which makes the point of boasting that James Cameron’s Fusion 3D Camera System was employed in the filming of ‘Afterlife’ – has had more than 6 million views.
A new video with the cast of ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’ from Buzzine.
Wentworth Miller (‘Prison Break’) joins the ‘Resident Evil’ franchise with a starring role in the fourth film of the video game-inspired series – and the first to be shot in 3-D – ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’, written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Milla Jovovich returns as Alice, battling the Umbrella Corporation and still trying to save survivors from the undead. Miller plays Chris Redfield, the older brother of Claire (Ali Larter, who also returns for more action), a tough fighter who’s part of a military organization fighting the infected.
Because his character starts off the film in prison, Miller wasn’t initially interested in the part after having spent four years playing Michael Scofield on ‘Prison Break’. “When I first got the script, I thought it was practical joke”, said Miller. “You meet my character in prison and the first thing out of his mouth is, ‘I know a way out of here’. As great as the part is and as terrific as the franchise is, I thought it felt too familiar. But I developed a different perspective after a while. If you don’t know me from ‘Prison Break’, then you’re going to watch this and nothing’s amiss. For those who do, it’s kind of a cool wink-wink to all the fans who stuck with Michael Scofield for 81 episodes. In a way, this is my chance to give that character a different ending”.Miller sat down with journalists at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con to talk about his role, the franchise, and working opposite women who kick ass.
Wentworth Miller ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’ Roundtable Interview.
I’m about to launch four straight days of interviews with the creative team behind ‘RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE’ (leading up to its release this Friday), all of which I conducted at San Diego Comic-Con in July. This group included some of the nicest and best-looking bunch of folks I’ve ever been around in my life, and I appreciate that they took the time out to chat. Considering that I’ve never been particularly outspoken about my feelings on this franchise (I like the first film and am, at best, neutral on the second and third installments), I was surprised to be tapped to do these interviews, but there you go.
I have a very clear memory of the first time I saw Wentworth Miller on screen. He was playing a younger version of Anthony Hopkins in Robert Bention’s ‘THE HUMAN STAIN’. That same year he had a juicy role in the first ‘UNDERWORLD’ movie, and two years after that he grabbed the lead role in the Fox series ‘Prison Break’, which I was a big fan of and watched until the bitter end. His role as Chris Redfield (brother to Ali Larter’s Claire Redfield) in ‘RESIDENT EVIL’ is a character a lot of fans of the videogame series have been waiting for quite some time to see join the films, and the part marks Miller’s first film role since ‘Prison Break’. He’s a soft-spoken man who is exceedingly polite, careful with his word choice, and ultimately was a lot of fun to chat with once he got warmed up. So please enjoy whispery charms of Wentworth Miller…
Though he’s been acting for over a decade, and has a significant side career going as a screenwriter, Wentworth Miller is still indelibly associated with a single role: crusading brother Michael Scofield on ‘Prison Break’. That may be about to change, though, as Miller takes on his first major role in a feature film, playing Chris Redfield in ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’. Though Chris is a major character in the video game series he’s making his first appearance in the movies after four films, reuniting with his sister Claire (Ali Larter) and teaming up with her and Milla Jovovich’s Alice on their journey to take down the Umbrella Corporation.
I caught up with Miller at a roundtable interview at this year’s Comic Con, where we pestered him for details about jumping on to a franchise like ‘Resident Evil’, familiarizing himself with the franchise’s history after never playing video games, and why you ought to care about their characters even with all the crazy action going on around them. Read it all below. ‘Resident Evil’ opens September 10.
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