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. 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.
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