52 • THE ARTISAN FALL 2017
Over the past several years, I've had the
privilege of working with Milla Jovovich on
several films. Milla is a natural beauty. In the
case of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, it
was in the script to age Milla's character Alice
to the ripe young age of 90. It was then that I
assembled the team of Koji Ohmura and Andrea
Dinobey Leanza to make it all happen. First, I
enlisted Koji to make a silicon sculpture from
an impression of Milla's face. We started the
look with a bald cap. After that, we applied the
silicon pieces, along with veneers and hand-
made eyebrows. Contact lenses and a lace front
wig were added to complete the look.
The director Paul W.S. Anderson had budgeted
$25,000 for visual effects in case we were able
to achieve the look. I'm proud to say that he
spent zero dollars on those visual effects! •
AGING
RESIDENT
EVIL
:
THE FINAL CHAPTER
B Y C H R I S T I N A S M I T H
J O U R N E Y M A N M A K E - U P A R T I S T
