Don't let her stunning beauty and perfect facial features fool you: This girl knows how to kick butt.

After playing the role of Alice in two "Resident Evil" movies, international supermodel Milla Jovovich takes on a new heroine role in "Ultraviolet," the new fantasy action picture from Kurt Wimmer ("Equillibrium"). Jovovich plays Violet, a member of a group of genetically modified humans called Hemophages on the verge of being eliminated by the government out of fear of overthrowing the human race. She goes on a rampage vowing to fight for her kind and eliminate all government efforts to destroy the Hemophages before it's too late.

Milla was at the New York Comic Con to promote her film and took some time out of her schedule to talk to us about "Ultraviolet."

Q: Do you enjoy coming to these comic conventions? What's that been like?

MILLA: It's awesome to see a bunch of people that love to go watch action movies and comics. I was a huge comic fan when I was little; well these people are not little, but I can relate in some sense. This is the audience for “Ultraviolet” so I want to support the movie and I want to make sure that people go see it and get to know me.

Q: How did you get involved with the movie? Did you see Kurt's earlier film, "Equilibrium"?

MILLA: I had seen “Equilibrium” in the middle of “Brother” the year before and the director actually wrote “Ultraviolet” for me. He called me and was like, “I have this script that I wrote for you and would you read it”; and I read it and I was really touched by it in a lot of different ways just because it's this story about this woman trying to protect this little boy, and essentially on top of that she's like the craziest action hero ever. I love it.

Q: How was working with Kurt on this movie different from Paul in the "Resident Evil" movies?

MILLA: Kurt is really funny. Of course it was crazy to work with someone that actually practices martial arts themselves, so a lot of stuff he would understand. In a lot of action films you definitely have the director and the stunt coordinator are like totally different people, but in some sense Kurt was always like one step ahead of everybody when it came to the action stuff and he had such a vision for it, so it was interesting. I definitely ruffled his feathers a few times. I gave him a black eye. So, you know, I wouldn't let him get away too perfect.

Q: What were some of the things you did to bring out some cool violence in this film?

MILLA:  We had an ultra-amazing stunt coordinator named Mike Smith, who was really, really had incredible vision. He really wanted to give this feeling of an Eastern-type martial arts movie, which in western action films you really just don't have that kind of fluid floral type of 'wooshu.' Usually, it's very street fighting. It's very like hard punches and it's all about the violence. This is much more about the look, the movement; it's so much about what she's doing and not just about the punches. So, it's taking it to another level, which I'd never done before and I was really excited because I was scared because I kinda have two left feet sometimes and in this movie I had to so much crazy stuff especially the sword tricks and the wooshu; it's very balletic. Like I said up there (in the podium) you have to be very graceful so I'm a little nervous about that. I can throw a punch but man, when it comes to gracefulness I definitely kinda bottom of the list for that; so I had to work a lot. I didn't get everything right that why I ended up working a year ahead of time.

Q: Do you have any input into what you do in the movie? Like if you think that something's been done before and you want to change it up?

MILLA: You know what? With "Resident Evil 2," yes. I definitely had a lot of things to say. The whole running down like the building wouldn't had been there if I hadn't pushed people to go, “Ok, let's do something crazy and something we hadn't seen before” because Alice is just going to end up kind of doing the same stuff like before. But I have to say with Violet it was just from top to bottom. So, it was actually a relief when I did something familiar because it was so much new information that I had to take in and like I said, it's like a dance form. There was so much work I had to do in my own time, just after a six hour stunt rehearsal I would spend three hours just spinning my swords at the hotel room. Like destroyed my hotel room in China. They hated me over there. I was like knocking on my ceiling cause I was flipping swords and the lights go out, and I'm like, “Okay. Hello. Room Service.”

Q: At what point did you think you'd be perfect for action films?

MILLA: I would imagine probably from “The Fifth Element”. That was the first time I got challenged in that way to have to train so much to have to discipline myself so it was kind of what opened up the idea that I can do martial arts. I found that my father was a huge fan of Kung Fu theater and stuff and boxing, so I've always had a masculine side to myself, but I always thought that was cool in the movies. I never really thought that I would do it myself, and after “The Fifth Element”, I just fell in love with martial arts and learning more, and wanting to keep myself in a good physical condition so that I could learn more and potentially do more movies where I could work with such incredible people.

Q: You seem to love fighting a lot. Were you into action and violence as a kid?

MILLA: You know what's funny. I was so not a violent child. I liked “Sheera”, Princess of Power right? She was kind of violent. But I more like girly violent. I would be fighting the dark forces, I didn't fight, but I never got nailed for not fighting. Never ever. When I would get picked on in school, I would stand up and take it, and people would scare me sometimes. I've been beaten up before, but by girls much bigger than me but I hold my ground and I cried a lot.

"Ultraviolet" opens in theaters March 3rd.