Alicia Vikander Says 'Tomb Raider' Character is an "Origin Story" of a "Next Door Girl" | TIFF 2017 - video Dailymotion

Vikander praised the Angelina Jolie films, saying they "really made her into an icon."

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00:00I also wanted to ask that you just recently wrapped production on the Tomb Raider origin story.

00:05What is it that people of the fans of the original films, of the video games, just of the character in general,

00:10I just love her as a character independently of all that,

00:14but what is it about this character that you're excited for people to discover about earlier on?

00:19Yeah, I mean, she's a very loved character, like you said, and I grew up playing the games,

00:24and I was thrilled when I was 15 and I saw the films with Angelina Jolie.

00:30She really made her into an icon with those films,

00:34and first when I was approached by the idea that they were going to make a new one,

00:38I was already thinking about the films that had been made,

00:42but the video game went through quite a change, and it got rebooted in 2013,

00:48and it's very much an origin story, and it's much more of kind of the next-door girl

00:57taking on a journey of becoming the action hero that we very much know her to be.

01:02So I definitely think there's a lot of elements there,

01:05both honoring the character that people know of and a lot of new elements

01:09that they will hopefully be surprised and engaged to see.