Movie fans are in for a treat! Hunky Hollywood actor Boris Kodjoe spends most of the new  Resident Evil: Retribution movie in a tank top, showing off his muscles and fighting skills to perfection.

Kodjoe, who rose to fame with his role in the hit TV series Soul Food, reprises his role as Luther in the latest instalment of the sci-fi thriller Resident Evil: Retribution, which was released on the South African movie circuit today.

According to Kodjoe, working again with the film’s lead star Milla Jovovich “was a lot of fun” and he explains that they do get along off the movie set too.

“She is just an incredibly beautiful person, both inside and out, and she’s a dynamic team leader on set. Our families get along so well that we hang out together for play dates and socialising when we’re not working,” he explained to Zalebs in LA.

“This instalment of Resident Evil was quite physically challenging for me. I had to be in extreme shape for the role and this time around the choreography for the fight scenes were quite intensive. What most people don;t know is that I had to shoot my scenes in the cold in tank tops, seeing as we filmed during the Canadian winter. It was rough but I was happy how everything turned out,” he recalled.

Kodjoe, who admits he’s a big fan of South Africa, first visited the country a working model in the early 2000′s, where he got to see “quite a bit” of the country – after enduring a bad tennis injury that prevented him from turning professional alongside best friend, Boris Becker.

“I’ve visited South Africa three times already and I’ve been to Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town and Soweto. I love Cape Town as a city but the warmness of the South African people really made an impression on me. I even got to learn a little Afrikaans – which is similar to Dutch, which I speak fluently.”

Kodjoe was so impressed with South Africa that when he signed on to star in Starship Troopers 3 in 2008, alongside Hollywood actor Casper Van Dien and now close friend South African actor Stelio Savante (who has been working and living in Hollywood for over 20 years now), that he brought his wife Nicole Ari Parker along to experience SA while he filmed Starship Troopers 3 here.

“Nicole and I have so many great memories from our SA visit that we just cannot wait to return soon,” he said.

By Clayton Morar