Milla Jovovich’s look in The Fifth Factor is nothing wanting iconic. However based on the actress, her character’s distinctive — and far replicated — hair model got here at a worth.
In French director Luc Besson’s 1997 sci-fi cult traditional, Jovovich performed Leeloo, a cosmic being who represents the universe’s solely protection towards a large evil fireball. As Jovovich defined in an interview with GQ, Besson needed her character’s hair to be a colour “that had by no means been seen earlier than.”
“They got here up with this florescent orange and the blonde roots,” she recalled. “It was nearly like folks working at evening on the roads once they have to be seen they might put on that form of orange so that you don’t get hit by automobiles.”
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Jovovich, now 49, initially had her personal naturally darkish hair bleached and dyed for the position. However, she mentioned, “In follow, it was troublesome to maintain up.”
“What we didn’t notice on the time was that my hair grows very quick,” she defined.
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Jovovich mentioned her roots started to develop out each week throughout filming. “Actually each week you’d begin seeing, like, that little little bit of darkish hair,” she recalled. “They stored attempting to the touch it up, however you need to be very delicate.”
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The actress revealed that the injury to her hair from repeated bleaching and dying made it begin to fall out in clumps.
“So, we needed to wig me,” she admitted.
The change from Jovovich’s actual hair to a wig was noticeable onscreen. However, she mentioned, her first look sporting the wig within the movie was timed in order that it got here after her character had showered.
“So, it form of made sense that it was a bit of, like, poofier and extra clean-looking,” she mentioned.
