'The Fifth Element' Director's Wife Gives Birth at 16

Luke Besson the director of The Fifth Element met his second wife mywin when she was just 12 years old and he was 29 3 years later they began dating Besson married mywin a year later when she became pregnant with their first child at 16 mywin has claimed that besson's film Layon was inspired by their relationship an innocent girl with no one else to turn to what exactly do you do for a living cleaner you mean you're a hit man cool the film's plot centers around an emotional relation a ship between an adult man and a 12-year-old girl a few years later Besson began production on The Fifth Element and cast his wife myw as the opera singing Alien plava [Music] [Applause] Laguna during this time Besson became involved with the film's lead actress Mila Jovovich Jovovich has said we sensed the special Chemistry Between Us immediately at the auditions and it just intensified during the film of the movie she was 19 at the time and he was 36 due to his relationship with Jovovich Besson and mywin divorced in 1997 Besson married Jovovich the same year and they would divorce just two years later