Milla Jovovich wanted Monster Hunter viewers to feel ‘like they were playing the game for the first time’
Photos: Coco Van Oppens Photo In Monster Hunter, Milla Jovovich plays an outsider. Her character, a US Army ranger named Artemis, is mysteriously transported from our world to a fantastical realm filled with giant and dangerous monsters. American soldiers aren't something you'll find in any of Capcom's Monster Hunter games. But Jovovich believes Artemis helped provide an important perspective - almost serving as a stand-in for a player jumping into their first experience with a Monster Hunter game.
When my character gets transported into the Monster Hunter world I was able to see it with the same eyes as when I first saw the game," she tells The Verge. I was just like Whoa, it's so beautiful.' We really wanted people to feel like that when they watch the movie,...