your best source for everything alicia vikander

As mentioned in our yesterday post, Alicia is gracing the April 2018 Cover of Marie Claire! We added a few high quality photos from the photoshoot by Thomas Whiteside to our Gallery, we’ll add digital scans as soon as possible in the meantime check out the photos! She looks beautiful but we were so excited to see them yesterday and now we’re disappointed cause all of the photos are black & white and they wasted the beautiful retro outfits, Alicia’s glowy skin tone, the cool make-up and the awesome textures. A lot of times when photographers go b/w it’s because they’re out of ideas or want to seem edgy (but end up looking uninspired) or when they simply didn’t produce good photography so we don’t get it! Hopefully they’re colored in the spread. Here, a few highlights from her April cover interview, on newsstands March 27:

On conveying Lara Croft’s strength in Tomb Raider:

We wanted to base most of the action in reality. She’s a girl my size having to become a survivor and overcome a lot of obstacles, and I wanted it to be believable that she could do it. All the action scenes when I had to fight with a man bigger than me—we had to figure out how I could actually kick his ass. I wanted to show young girls that it’s cool to be a girl who’s really strong and that watching her, you feel like OK, she might be able to climb that wall. She might be able to lift her own weight.  Continue reading.

Labels: Gallery, Interviews, Press Library, Shoots, Tomb Raider
PREVIOUS POST
NEXT POST

Leave a Reply