Michelle's experience of evil Dead

I play a commando chick called Rain. The film is based on the wild Capcom video game and our story is what happens when a deadly virus breaks out in an underground research-laboratory town run by a bio-engineering company called Umbrella. I am called out with my colleague Alice, played by Milla Jovovich, to lead a commando squad to isolate the virus before it overruns Earth.

As we battle our way through hideous obstacles, we discover one of Umbrella's developments has gone crazy. Enter the Undead, enter Zombie Dogs, enter The Licker. A virus of theirs has gone AWOL and turned into one that can be inhaled. It doesn't rot the flesh but eats away at the skin. Shooting those scenes - and the realism achieved - left the actors feeling quite shaken. James Purefoy - he plays Spencer - still has flashbacks to the Undead scenes.

The film is directed by Mortal Kombat's Paul Anderson, who also wrote it, and we shot in Berlin. I reckon I had more action in Resident Evil than I did in The Fast And The Furious or Girlfight. It was a truly interactive shoot for all of us - and that was without the stunts. I'd always aspired to be an action hero and I think I've done that one now.