Back in April, it was announced that Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) is to portray Lara Croft for the upcoming reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise from director Roar Uthaug (The Wave), and during an interview with Collider to promote her new film The Light Between Oceans, the Swedish actress has been chatting about taking on the role of the iconic video game character.
“I think it’s – you know, with these big films – you just want to just – for me it’s really all about the filmmaker, and then of course the character and the story,” states Vikander. “I find that – big blockbuster movies, I grew up with, and some of them I love, and I think the thrill of being part of making one myself would be extraordinary. But it also comes down to, I met Roar [Uthaug] and I’d seen The Wave and a few of his other Norwegian films and it’s with the kind of chance to make this story now, based on the rebooted game which is more of an origin story. You could intervene hopefully a great story and a great arc and then within that, have a very entertaining adventure film, which I loved those growing up.”
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“I played the game when I was a kid [laughs],” she continues. “Anyways, it was a really the real first protagonist I had seen in a video game at that point. And of course Angelina Jolie made her into an icon. So it’s cool to try to step into the shoes and we’re hoping to make something that will hopefully will be fresh and new. I hadn’t played the new rebooted game and now I have and it’s quite different. The kind of rebooted the game and it visually looks quite different and it’s like I said, it’s more of an origin story. You’re following this girl who, on her way to becoming what we all know her for, Tomb Raider, Lara Croft.”
The new Tomb Raider movie is set to hit cinemas on March 16th 2018.
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Originally published September 1, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
