The trainer was like, 'All right, Ashanti, you got it,' and I was like, 'Pop! Pop! Pop!' " "But I got into it really quick, I must say. "Although it had blank bullets, the gun was heavy and it made a loud noise," she continued. At first I was a little bit leery, and I was like, 'OK, I've got to be really careful.' "That was something so liberating to me - I'd never done anything like that before. "I would have to say was being able to shoot the 9-millimeter," she grinned. Nurse Betty also gets to wield some weaponry. But there's a couple of stunts going back and forth with the bus." "No, I'm actually not flying the chopper," she said. "Basically she tries to nurse up whoever gets bit."Īshanti said she got to perform some pretty intense stunts on the Mexico sets, but contrary to rumor, her character does not pilot the high-powered helicopter linked to one of the film's most high-concept action sequences. "Betty drives a really cool ambulance with these huge spiked-out razorblades on the tires to keep all the undead monsters away," the singer/actress said.
Desperate for help anywhere they can get it, the duo recruit no-nonsense tough girl Claire Redfield (Ali Larter) and Ashanti's character, a firepowered Florence Nightingale named Nurse Betty.Ĭheck out Ne-Yo in the trailer premiere of "Stomp the Yard," plus the trailer for "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" and more, on Overdrive (Epps) riding a pimped-out school bus across the wasteland once known as the United States. "Extinction" picks up with Alice and smartass cabdriver L.J. It's not too intimidating, because you expect it and you're like, 'OK, she has that covered.' " She knows what she's up against, and she's the vet. "Milla is totally different from all of us," Ashanti said of the action-loving co-star who has brought Alice to life.
The 25-year-old Ashanti, whose movie career was helped along this year by the comedy "John Tucker Must Die" (see "Ashanti Insists Film About Killing Her Ex Is Actually 'Light' And 'Fun' "), will be joined by returning stars Milla Jovovich and Mike Epps. "Blood and everything" would seem to be the operative words in these video game-based movies, which have so far terrified fans with undead dogs, the 9-foot-tall bio-weapon Nemesis and enough zombies to suck the brains out of a Mensa meeting. "But I had done a 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', which was somewhat similar in the sense that I played a demon and I had to stab someone. Anderson approached the sci-fi rookie with "Resident Evil: Extinction," the upcoming third movie in the series.
R&B songstress Ashanti agreed that it was a little odd when series overseer Paul W.S. On top of that, most of the world's population had been infected by the T-Virus outbreak and was rapidly transforming into bloodthirsty zombies.īut help is on the way, and it's coming from an unexpected source. She had died in a crash, been resurrected by scientists in a lab and appeared to be turning into some sort of mutant/robot - quite possibly an evil one - under the control of the soulless Umbrella Corporation. When last we saw "Resident Evil" heroine Alice, things weren't looking too rosy.