Tomb Raider: Alicia Vikander on Filming Endurance Ship Wreck

"I’m so happy to know it was all worth it."

By Jesse Schedeen

The first trailer for 2018's Tomb Raider offers our first real taste of how the movie will adapt the recent video games. Star Alicia Vikander certainly looks the part of Lara Croft, but as she revealed to us in a recent interview, things got pretty challenging on set while filming one of the most iconic sequences from the 2013 game.

The movie will feature its own take on of the sinking of the Endurance - the disaster that leaves Lara stranded and forced to fend for herself on a remote, deadly island. Vikander revealed to IGN that this sequence actually posed the most difficult physical challenge during filming. Make sure to check out our full video interview with Vikander:

“We did a lot of stunts and a lot of preparation - both me and my incredible stunt girls that I was working with," Vikander said. "We were quite bruised, with a lot of hits. That’s tough, but that’s okay. The trickiest thing of all, I think, while shooting this film is actually the cold that comes from being in the water for hours and hours and hours."

Vikander clarified that the sequence was shot both on-location and on a closed set inside a giant, unheated water tank. "We had to fire off tons of water cannons on a stage and on a rig. Because you can’t have too much steam and you can’t heat that large amount of water - it didn’t come from a pool, either - it was just cold. You know, after ten minutes it just starts to creep up on you. And you know you have to do another seven or eight hours in that. I’m so happy to know it was all worth it."

Vikander said that she and director Roar Uthaug had access to the 2013 game on-set in order to ensure their version lived up to the source material. She said, “I had the game on set. I don’t think I played it that day, because we started at 4 or 5am. Especially those days were very intense. But during the preparation process, I sat down with Roar. We always had the imagery from the game that we kind of looked at."

For more on Tomb Raider, make sure to check out director Roar Uthaug's breakdown of the new trailer:

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