Wentworth Miller Interview for Resident Evil: Afterlife - Celebrity Interviews
Wentworth Miller
"A True 'Break' Out Star"
Miller made his start on the TV series Dinotopia, before landing movie roles in films like The Human Stain and Underworld. However, it was his role as inmate Michael Scofield on the Fox hit TV series Prison Break that got him the most recognition.
Now, Miller hopes to break out into the world of Hollywood film with his biggest film role to date as Chris Redfield in Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D. The 38 year-old actor talked with us about his first day on the set as the film franchise's newcomer.
"The first day I was on set, I was there to show Paul [W. S. Anderson] the costume and to kind of go through the gak that we had agreed upon for the Chris character," Wentworth recalls, "I didn't get to work, but you get to seeMilla [Jovovich] in action. She's an inspiration and the bedrock of this thing, so I knew automatically. just by watching her navigate this set, what the stakes were and what kind of game I had to bring."
Wentworth says he felt little pressure to keep up with the exercise regimen of his female co-stars due to his previous regimen he did during his time on Prison Break.
"There was an exercise regimen that I put myself on for a couple of months prior to the movie, just because I wanted to have the stamina to keep up with what was required," Miller says, "That said, four years in Prison Break is a fairly rough-and-tumble show and that was a pretty good introduction and education as far as stunt choreography. There wasn't anything we didn't do on that show and all that came to bear on my work on the movie."
The fact that this entry of Resident Evil was in 3D was an opportunity that proved too good for Miller to pass up.
"It was," he says, "I think an actor has to stay abreast of the trends and this is clearly a new and powerful direction that the industry's going in, so I do want to stay current. At the same time, I'm an actor who tends to geek out on the technical necessarily. I think I've always been more interested in what story we're telling as opposed to what gadgets we're using to tell that story. And what I liked about Resident Evil is that it seemed to have a balance of both. of It had the great technology that James Cameron was using on Avatar, but it also had characters that had depth and weight and backstory."
"I think that the appeal of zombies, in particular, for me, that there's this mass evil that they can't be rationed with, they can't be reckoned with, they're just coming for you and the idea of a boogie man under the bed that just can't be stopped, it taps into your deepest childhood fears," Wentworth continues, "I think there's something very thrilling about seeing that expressed on TV and film. [The 3D] just makes it more kick-ass. The gore is that much gorier. It's in your face. They were very clever in the ways that they used 3D to enhance the story as opposed to distract from it. There's the need for people to live vicariously for someone they could relate to onscreen or finds themselves in an extraordinary situation. You cannot deny the appeal for sci-fi."
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Wentworth says his character Chris's brother/sister relationship with Claire, played by Ali Larter, was a particularly appealing for him as an actor.
"That was something we were very interested in exploring together," Miller says, "A movie like this, I think you can appreciate it on one level that it's simply about the action and the horror and the thrills and the cool stunt sequences, all of which are incredibly satisfying, but it was also the question of character, it was also the question of do you care about the people you're seeing onscreen that when something horrible happens to them, it resonates in a meaningful way.
"And I think the sibling relationship was something new in the franchise." he adds, "Because it's a family bond and everyone in the audience can relate to that automatically, so I'd like to think that the work we did to flesh out that relationship deepened the narrative and the impact of the story as a whole."
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