![]() ![]() Of course, anyone who has played one of the Tomb Raider games or has seen the previous films, knows full well that Indiana Jones has nothing over Lara in terms of action. In Tomb Raider, Lara Craft goes in search of her father who mysteriously disappeared years earlier, which leads her to a fabled tomb on a mythical island, where the stakes are raised to a planetary scale. To combine that is really tough, because there’s so many people that need to come together and work together.” And be successfully commercially as well. But the biggest challenge, I think, is to create films that have both artistic depth and value, and still are able to become the big adventure and ride that they’re supposed to be. ![]() We didn’t have that much green screen, which I thought was extremely thrilling, because you got to actually step into that kind of universe, which was pretty magical. “The other feeling that comes to you is that it’s such a huge machiner, and that you’re really creating another world. “You end up coming to set and it’s not 60 people there, but 350,” she compares independent films to something the size of Tomb Raider. The interesting thing is that Alicia really doesn’t see a tremendous difference between all of these films she’s made. Now, of course, she is bringing video game character Lara Croft, the Tomb Raider, to life, reimagining the role first played by Angelina Jolie. Diverse roles continued in 2014’s Testament of Youth, which saw her cast as a World War I activist the 2015 sci-fi film Ex Machina as a humanoid robot, and as painter Gerda Wegener in that same year’s The Danish Girl, for which she took home the Oscar in the category of Best Supporting Actress. Her feature film debut was in 2010’s Pure, followed two years later by the adaptation of Anna Karenina and the Danish film, A Royal Affair. Her acting career began in short films and Swedish television shows, but she really came to the attention of people during the two years she spent from 2008-10 on the Swedish series Andra Avenyn. 3, 1988 in Sweden, Alicia trained as a ballet dancer when she was younger. My friends always say ‘Oh my God, to get the chance to play an action hero would be friggin’ amazing.’ I just never thought I would be able to have that chance.” Also, I’ve always loved making roles, or characters, that come from different genres and are different from anything I’ve done before. We kind of step into the cinema to immerse yourself in an adventure. “I love these kind of action films and to be given the chance to be part of making one has been extremely wonderful. “Any actor comes in thinking that if we’re going to get the next job, whatever it may be, we’re happy,” she tells Life & Style. She’s been down this avenue of questioning before in regards to her reboot of Tomb Raider, but the good thing is that she doesn’t seem bothered by it at all.Īlicia, who took home that Oscar for 2016’s The Danish Girl, actually sees it as a natural progression. But yeah, I'm excited to read scripts and hope that it's something that we'll find a way to make.What’s a nice Academy Award winner like you doing in an action blockbuster like this? It’s asked as a joke and Alicia Vikander smiles in response, but you’re immediately aware that you’re not being nearly as clever as you think you are and that she’s just being really polite. "And so, I can't say anything, because like you said, COVID kind of put everything just up in the air. She's extremely hardworking," Vikander said at the time. While Vikander recently bringing her first child with husband Michael Fassbender into the world earlier this year may have had a small bearing on the progress of the sequel, the Covid pandemic has obviously played a huge part in holding back the talks for the new movie, something that The Green Knight star alluded to in an interview with back in July. I'm hoping that we get on track and get to do something together." I get to talk about big action set pieces and stunts that we want to make. It's so much fun on the Zooms I've had with Misha to finally sit with another woman my own age. "When Misha was mentioned to me and I saw the work on Lovecraft Country, I was extremely impressed. "When the studio first said they were interested in a sequel, I got really excited," Vikander said. ![]()
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