Today’s a twofer! Milla Jovovich and Liv Tyler kind of occupy the same pop culture space in my life, seeing as how I am a product of my teenage years in the 1990s. So, since both have a small, yet significant, contribution to historical films, I figured combining them into one post would make sense!
Milla Jovovich
Chaplin (1992)
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
The Claim (2000)
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal’s Caligula (2005)
The Three Musketeers (2011)
Paradise Hills (2019)
Liv Tyler
That Thing You Do (1996)
Plunkett & Maclean (1999)
Onegin (1999)
Falling Up (2017)
Gunpowder (2017)
Harlots (2018-)
What’s your favorite historical costume role of either Milla Jovovich or Liv Tyler?
“I tried really hard to find a photo of her that didn’t look like an underage girl in lingerie, and, well, I failed.”
Isn’t that kind of the point? Charlie did love his underage girls.
For Liv, my favourites are LOTR (not Historical, I know) l tying with Harlots and Onegin with Plunkett a very close second. For Mila it’s La Pucelle.
I, too, enjoy Liv in LOTR. She manages to speak some rather godawful lines with conviction, and she looks fab.
Still waiting for an Irene Dunne WCW.
I know it’s more recent than you usually do, but I have to put in a plug for Milla Jovovich in Dazed and Confused.
Can I just wax poetic about Plunkett & Macleane for a second? I love a good historical drama as much as (well, more than) the next person, but every once in a while I also love one that is deliberately not adhering to period correctness. Plunkett & Macleane is stylized in a way that just hits all the right notes for me – I love the costumes, the soundtrack, the set design and the casting (particularly Alan Cumming!).
I will brook no criticism of That Thing You Do!. I just won’t. It’s one of those perfect little movies, encapsulated and impervious. The girls look pert and stylish. The boys are all cute and dapper. Chris Isaak, of all people, looks suave, dashing and swoonworthy. The songs are catchy and bouncy. The story is uplifting. The right boy wins the right girl in the end.