However, she is most known for singing Il Dolce Suono as the Diva Opera Singer from The Fifth Element. Mula performed various songs like Lucia di Lammermoor, la bohème, and Manon, among others. She won many competitions such as the Cantante d’Albania (1987), George Enescu Competition in Bucharest (1988), and the Butterfly Competition in Barcelone (1992).Īfter these competitions, Inva performed in various concerts throughout Europe. Also, I have once been to Albania, and it’s honestly worth a visit! Now, back to her backstory. Mula was born in Tirana, which is the capital of Albania. Yeah, he sure loves his girlfriends young. And once again, Milla was 16 years younger than him. When they were filming the Fifth Element, he broke up with her because he fell in love with Milla Jovovich. And, she even got pregnant at the age of 16. They started dating when he was 31, and she was only 15 years old. However, did you know that Director Luc Besson was married to Maïwen Besco? Okay, this is going to weird you out.

Most of you know that Luc Besson directed the movie. It’s impossible to sing it as they had to record some notes separately because you can’t jump from a sharp note to immediately a grave one. However, the editors were able to salvage the negatives and cut together the scene Besson wanted, saving 'the money shot' of the film.Just for your information, the area is considered to be one of the hardest songs to do because of its length.

The beautiful diva scene was reduced to a mess of film canisters in trash cans. Associate Producer John Amicarella explained how the film negatives for the scene had fallen off the airplane onto the tarmac at LAX and run over by a forklift. The critical scene almost didn't make it the final cut of the movie.

The concert scene was intercut with a fight scene to make cinematic brilliance. You wouldn't think a concert sequence in the middle of an action film would be the most difficult scene to shoot, but as Creature Design Supervisor Nick Dudman said: 'We ended up with Maïwenn on 14-inch stilts wearing a skintight foam and latex dress that had to be made in one single piece with no seams.It was nerve-wracking, shooting at night in the opera house, worrying about whether the latex going to peel off, or if she stepped forward too far on the stilts would she just scream and disappear into the orchestra pit? There were lots of worries.'

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