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I can get so fed up talking about strong female characters, because its like, what is that?

She earns each step along the way to be able to pull a warrior out within her.

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She has a point.

But the games publisher, Eidos, had other ideas.

Games had pretty much been ignored by anyone but teenage boys.

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Suddenly we had this character that people saw as a woman.

It wasnt a fat Italian plumber jumping around a magic land.

She was real, like a movie star.

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Tomb Raider: The Art and Making of the Film by Sharon Gosling, published by Titan Books and TOMB RAIDER © 2018 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. TOMB RAIDER and LARA CROFT are trademarks of Square Enix Ltd. All rights reserved.

Yet again, Laras resilience her most enduring superpower remains.

The truest essence of her is that shes human, says Vikander.

Alicia had a huge voice in shaping the character, she praises.

Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft in the ‘Tomb Raider’ movie

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