Tomb Raider Star Sophie Turner Is ‘Playing The Games, Reading The Comics’ To Prepare For Her Role As Lara

Actress Sophie Turner, who is set to strap on Lara Croft’s hiking boots for the upcoming Amazon Tomb Raider live-action series, has revealed she’s been busy preparing for her role by playing the games and reading the comics. Curiously, she admitted she hasn’t been watched the previous movies in the series.

Speaking with SiriusXM, Turner, who made a name for herself in Game of Thrones and the latter-day X-Men movies, stated that while she’s a fan of the Tomb Raider films, she wants to “create my own thing” and as such isn’t watching them as part of her role prep.

I’m playing the games, I’m reading the comics. I’ve got the Colossal Collections, which are 500 pages. I’m kind of doing all of it, but not really focusing on the previous iterations, because I don’t want to imitate, I’ve gotta create my own thing. So, as much as I love those movies, I can’t watch them right now.

For the record, there’s been three major Hollywood Tomb Raider movies to date. The first two starred Angelina Jolie as Croft, and comprised 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, and 2018’s Tomb Raider, which featured Alicia Vikander in the role.

Amazon recently confirmed a slew of new cast members to feature in the Tomb Raider series, including Jason Isaacs and Sigourney Weaver. Beyond that, the video game series celebrates its 30th anniversary later this year, and is getting two new projects: Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and Tomb Raider Catalyst, the former a reimagining of the 1996 original.

Tomb Raider originally released for the Sega Saturn in October 1996 and was developed by Core, with the game ported to PC and PlayStation the following month.

[Source – SiriusXM via GamesRadar]