Alicia Vikander Covers The March 2018 Issue Of Vogue US, Lensed By Steven Klein In 'Lara Croft' Interview
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Swedish actor Alicia Vikander is styled by Tonne Goodman in her second Vogue US cover story. Vikander is set to play Lara Croft in the new 'Tomb Raider', lensed by Steven Klein for the March 2018 issue./ Makeup by Yadim; hair by Garren
Irina Aleksander interviews Vikander in 'How Alicia Vikander Transformed Into 'Tomb Raider’s' Lara Croft', starting off on the reboot of the 2001 film that ignited the career of Angelina Jolie.
It’s true—Vikander, a former ballerina with a petite frame and delicate old-world features, is an unlikely Croft, the digital embodiment of teen male fantasies from the game consoles of the 1990s. Croft may have been the first heroine of video games, but like most women, she had to endure the indignities that being first entailed: an exaggerated bust, a tiny waist, short shorts. In 2018, a year afterWonder Woman redefined the modern action heroine, Croft is more Olympic athlete than pinup. Gone are the short shorts and belly shirt, replaced with sensible cargo pants. Vikander concedes that she wore a lightly padded bra for the role, but that it was mostly to help her get into a character. “What little I have I kind of pushed up,” she says.
