Mula is perhaps best known to Western filmgoers as the singing voice of the Diva Plavalaguna, played on-screen by Maïwenn Le Besco, in the 1997 film The Fifth Element, where she is credited using her then married name as Inva Mula Çako.

The greatest strength of The Fifth Element is by far its sense of humor, which is something that most big-budget science fiction films never even attempt, much less manage to pull off.

The "Divine Language" spoken by Leeloo is a fictional language of 400 words, invented by Besson. To practice, Jovovich and Besson held conversations and exchanged letters in the language.

Even though she is a genetically engineered warrior, Leeloo was engineered by the Mondoshawan to fight an unimaginable, ancient Evil, not human wickedness. She is a strong yet vulnerable savior (Carpenter 1) who has never been exposed to human war.