We’re making a girl that’s flesh and blood.” (Or as Dominic West, who plays Croft’s father, describes the reboot: “Less boobs, more fighting.”) We’re not making a cardboard Hollywood hero. “She brings a vulnerability that I think is important. “I knew I wanted Alicia to play Lara even before I met her,” says Roar Uthaug, Tomb Raider’s director, who reportedly chose Vikander over Daisy Ridley and Cara Delevingne. “Bicycling, that’s my big stunt!” she jokes. The first action sequence shows Vikander racing through London streets-not atop Croft’s signature motorcycle (or an ATV) but on a bicycle. The new film tells an origin story about how Croft became the invincible, gun-wielding archaeologist. For Vikander, who won an Oscar for The Danish Girl, the role comes as one of those anointing rituals of modern Hollywood in which an actor is plucked from the land of daring art-house dramas-Scarlett, Jennifer, Shailene-and entrusted with carrying a bankable franchise. I promise.”Īn ATV ride was Vikander’s idea, a nod to her turn as Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, a reboot of the 2001 film that transformed Angelina Jolie, the compelling aggressor in Girl, Interrupted, into a big-screen action figure. “The worst that can happen is we flip,” Vikander says. What’s the worst that can happen? I accidentally say this out loud. Vikander is behind the wheel even though she doesn’t have a driver’s license. We’ve just signed away our right to sue in case of sunburn, collision, hypothermia, and harm by wild animals. We’re on a two-seater ATV somewhere outside Joshua Tree. This will be the closest you feel to any of your subjects,” says Alicia Vikander, telling me to grab hold of her waist if I get scared. “Like she hasn’t found her place and footing in the world just yet.” Far left: Proenza Schouler bustier, top, and skirt. In 20, Vikander achieved global recognition and acclaim for her roles as activist Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth (2014), an AI in Ex Machina (2014), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress, and painter Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl (2015), for which she received the Academy Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress.Vikander’s incarnation of Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft “feels younger,” the actress says. She went on to star in the 2013 Swedish drama film Hotel (2013)and appeared in the Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate (2013) that same year. She attracted widespread recognition in 2012 for portraying Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya in Joe Wright's film adaptation of Anna Karenina (2012), and Queen Caroline Mathilde in the acclaimed Danish film A Royal Affair (2012), receiving a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination for her breakthrough. Vikander made her feature film debut in Pure (2009), for which she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress. She began her professional acting career by appearing in Swedish short films and television series, and first gained recognition in Northern Europe for her role as Josefin Björn-Tegebrandt in the TV drama Second Avenue (2007). Alicia began acting as a child in minor stage productions at The Göteborg Opera, and trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm, and the School of American Ballet in New York. Through her mother, she is one quarter Finnish, and had a maternal great aunt who moved from Finland to Sweden to escape World War 2. She was born and raised in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, to Maria Fahl, an actress of stage and screen, and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist. Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress, dancer and producer.
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