Lara Croft leaps over lava in Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft
With the release of Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft this week, Netflix is bringing the story of the legendary explorer to life once again, this time as an animated series. Starring Hayley Atwell as the adventurous Lara Croft, the series follows her on a globe-trotting mission to track down the mercenary Charles Deveraux , a man who is hell-bent on gathering the four Peril Stones, which when combined will disrupt the balance of the world as they know it.
Then the fact also that she was created from the very beginning by a line of really interesting creatives, women in particular, that drew my attention. Vicky Arnold, who shaped her originally, and then passed the baton on to Rihanna Pratchett for the reboot series, and then Jill Murray, who developed her focusing more on the themes of her self-discovery and growth, and just thinking of this lineage of amazing women.
I think that's also what makes her such an attractive character to play, is that lots of people have played her before. So it's not just that she belongs to one performer, and that's why she's been able to develop, and develop with the times, because other people are coming in, and they're refreshing our understanding of who Lara is with the choices that they want to make. That was relatively straightforward for me.
ATWELL: One thing that I think the series has done really well is, it's put in some great Easter eggs. It's so fun. Fans should definitely pay attention to some of the backgrounds, and they can find signs and artifacts, which are a call back to the games. It’s a lovely wink to the fans who would understand it and know what it's referring to. I think that becomes such a fun element of this particular series.
ATWELL: Oh, good! Tasha's worked really hard on the script to add lots of detail in there, and she's really passionate about lots of aspects of Lara's character, from how she is within herself and her friendships, but then also her own passion for the kind of the archaeological, myth-fueled adventure she goes on. Then also her fighting style, there’s boxing in there, Krav Maga, you have the fact that Lara was once a bouncer, so you've got that more scrappy style to her.
There is one thing when you're doing a dialogue, if you're just walking down a street, or sat down in a café, or the character being by themselves, that's one thing. But when you have to also then do physical exertion, detailed physical exertion, and create what we call in the business a sound library, and then, you realize how particularly technical this aspect is, to make sure that the action feels as alive as the dialogue between actors in a normal scene.
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