“It touches me still that the audience all over the world still love that movie,” says Gaultier. Two decades later, the film still elicits awed reactions-and the costumes for Leeloo, Ruby Rhod, and Korben Dallas have become pop-culture staples that continue to resurface at events like Comic-Con and in online tributes. You could just feel this incredible energy.” “There was just a hush, which is really bizarre, when you think that there’s over 200 people around you, and everything is deathly quiet. “We hadn’t shown Leeloo to anybody, so everyone was seeing her for the first time,” she says. I just really got into the character and I definitely didn’t feel constraints.” Jovovich still remembers the moment she stepped on set in Gaultier’s design, stunning cast and crew into silence. She wasn’t deterred by the revealing nature of the outfits, though: “It was like wearing a bikini, you know? Especially at that point, I was 19, and tiny.
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“There was a lot of skin showing, so I got pretty bruised up, because I couldn’t wear pads and things that other people could wear,” she recalls. The costumes packed a visual punch, but tackling stunts in them was a challenge for Jovovich. “The costume for Leeloo was a bit of a last-minute creation, and funnily enough, it is the one that everyone remembers from that movie.” “It was Luc’s idea that Milla needed to be a redhead that was not me,” says Gaultier. In fashion we go from season to season without any pause.” He adjusted his designs to suit the new cast once Jovovich, Bruce Willis, and Chris Tucker were on board, though he credits Besson with adding the final touch to Leeloo’s appearance. “I didn’t know the film industry well, or the fact that a project can take years. “I had done my drawings nothing came of it-except a very funny meeting with Prince-and I had forgotten about it,” he remembers. Gaultier was on hand for the many changes in casting-including an early-’90s lineup in which Julia Roberts was set to play Leeloo opposite Prince as the eccentric radio host Ruby Rhod. He had been thinking about The Fifth Element, Leeloo, the story, and the language-you could say he’d been preparing his whole life for that moment.” “This had been Luc’s brainchild since he was a teenager.
People knew something magical and important was happening,” she said on the phone from Los Angeles.
“Even when I did the screen test, you could feel it in the air. The Fifth Element also developed a following in fashion circles, thanks to its Jean Paul Gaultier–designed costumes and supermodel leading lady, Milla Jovovich, who knew from the moment she got involved with the project that it was destined to be special.
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The tale of special forces major-turned-cabdriver Korben Dallas and Leeloo-the genetically perfect being who is key to earth’s survival-it showed the full scope of Besson’s talents and a fresh take on futurism brimming with couture-clad aliens and expansive sets. Its timing is apt: 20 years ago, director Luc Besson raised the bar for science fiction films with his first intergalactic blockbuster, The Fifth Element. With its dazzling visuals and star-studded cast, Valerian arrives in theaters today with fanfare befitting an epic.
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