I hope you’re not tired of all the updates yet, as we have plenty more coming up! As mentioned earlier this morning, Alicia was a guest at “The One Show” in London last night! Below you can check out a video clip, and I’ve updated our gallery with screen captures.
Ready for yet another video master-post? Following our first 3 posts with videos of Alicia doing Tomb Raider press, we’ve now got another one for you! (Check out the other posts here: Post 1, Post 2, Post 3). This one once again covers videos from several different dates, as some sites are slower than others when it comes to uploading their clips online. They’re mostly all from the European press tour so far though, but there’s also one which has merged plenty of the Tomb Raider interviews from LA in there! Enjoy watching.
It loosk like these video master-posts are going to be a daily thing now during this promotion tour! It’s only been a day since our last, but there’s already several new videos of Alicia popping up on YouTube. Following our previous two, these are also from various days throughout the promotion tour. They keep surfacing on the web at different dates, so there’s some from the Los Angeles promotion, some from Madrid and some from New York. Enjoy the videos, and make sure to check back later, as we have plenty more updates lined up… Alicia is still in Madrid, and will be doing more press work there today.
Following our ‘Tomb Raider’ promotional interviews master-post last week, I’ve put together another one for you all today! We’re being blessed with several new videos every single day now, so I’ll gather all the interviews ones into master-posts every now and then. The ones in the white blouse are from LA on February 23, but they were added to YouTube in the last couple of days. Stay tuned for more updates later…
During the weekend’s Tomb Raider promotion, Alicia stepped by Refinery to dish about the new film! You can read their full article and check out the video below. Alicia wore a stunning green jumpsuit – hopefully we’ll get some photos of Alicia in this outfit soon.
Refinery – Alicia Vikander remembers the day she first came across Lara Croft. As a 10-year-old girl growing up in Sweden, her friends didn’t really talk about video games, let alone admit to playing them. But her family friends had sons, and those sons had a Playstation. “I stepped into that room and saw Lara Croft, the female protagonist of a video game, something I had never seen before,” Vikander told Refinery29. “I was a bit afraid, because there were a lot of scary elements, so I used to spend a lot of time in the manor, practicing.” Fast-forward two decades, and the 29-year old is set to storm the screen as her childhood hero in director Roar Uthaug’s reboot of Tomb Raider.
If you’re already picturing an Angelina Jolie-lite version, think again. You won’t see this Lara running through the jungle in short-shorts, holding her signature double guns. Vikander’s character is more regular girl than Tomb Raider. “She’s not an action hero when we meet her in the beginning of this film,” Vikander explained. “She’s a girl who lives with her friends in East London, like I did when I was in my early twenties!” Of course, fate takes over, delivering a series of adventures and circumstances that lead part-time boxer and daytime bicycle courier Lara to become the heroine we know and love.
This is a very different role for Vikander, who won an Academy Award for her performance alongside Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl in 2016. But in reality, she sees this as a way to get back to her roots. “I’ve always loved adventure movies. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen Indiana Jones, or The Mummy series,” she said. I was always curious of what it would be like to do those kinds of action sequences and stunts.” The training took four months, and included MMA training, rock climbing, and weightlifting. By the end, Vikander had gained 12 pounds of muscle. “It was pretty crazy when I stood on the scale and saw that I had gained that much,” she confessed. “I’ve always been very petite, and it was very empowering to see that it worked.”
But sheer physical strength isn’t the only thing driving this performance. In late December, Vikander got involved in forming what would eventually become the Time’s Up initiative, which aims to address issues of inequality in the workplace in Hollywood and across other industries, alongside the likes of Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman, and America Ferrera.
A key part of that struggle is changing the culture that only shows women as love interests and sidekicks. Vikander recalled rushing out to see Wonder Woman while wrapping up production on Tomb Raider, and being profoundly moved. “I didn’t think that I could do these things,” she said. “I couldn’t even dream of it because it wasn’t even in my perspective of reality.” If only that 10-year-old could see her now.
Amid all the Tomb Raider promotional mania, Alicia was a guest at the Swedish talk show “Malou efter tio” on February 5th. A kind soul has now uploaded the entire interview to YouTube with English subtitles, and it’s an episode I really recommend you all to watch! It’s a very personal and different interview, and they discuss several different – and important – topics.
As mentioned in our previous post, this weekend we’ve been inundated with various Tomb Raider promotional tour material! Alicia have visited PopSugar, Facebook, IGN and more to promote the upcoming film. Check out some videos below, and stay tuned for photo updates from press conferences held Friday and Saturday…
Hello Alicia fans! Tomb Raider promotion has really kicked off, and Alicia has been busy this weekend promoting the film pretty much everywhere. She took over Game Spot’s official twitter account to answer questions sent in by fans, and I’ve merged all the videos together for those of you who didn’t get to watch it live on twitter below.