The new Lara Craft dislocated her jaw during work on Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis.
The new Lara Craft dislocated her jaw during work on Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis.
Alix Wilton Regan, who plays the iconic character in the upcoming remake of the original 1996 Tomb Raider and next year’s Tomb Raider: Catalyst, has opened up about the physical demands of one of video game’s most legendary roles.
She told GameSpot: “The biggest challenge on this has been me restraining myself at points because I throw myself into every scene with such energy.
“I actually punched myself in the face the other day, this is a true story by the way.
“We were on a four hour VO record, and in the last half hour they show me some fight sequences they need to capture some extra sound for, some extra vocalisations.
“And I can’t do anything by halves, this is me we’re talking about. So I put all my energy into it, I’m like, jab, jab!
“As I go to do the punch across, as I go to do the hook, I literally hooked myself in the jaw, dislocated my jaw!”
Alix insisted she’s suffered the same injury before, but there was a panic on screen during the Zoom session.
She added: “Anyway, it’s fine, I’ve done it before. But everyone on the Zoom was like, ‘S***, no! We killed Lara! What, man? S***, no!’
“I was like, ‘I think we need a pause, and I need an ice pack’.
“So we obviously paused recording for 20 minutes while I popped my jaw back in place, put an ice back on it. It was really quite intense!”
In a separate interview, Alix joked that she sometimes “just forgets that I’m not actually Lara Croft”.
She told WhatCulture Gaming: “I was recently throwing myself into a door voluntarily as she batters the door down, and I hurt my arm by the end of the day.
“Everyone was like, ‘You don’t have to do that.’ And I’m like, ‘I do! I have to feel everything.’ I would drive people mad on set with that…
“That was how I injured my arm. I was doing five, six, seven takes in a row. My arm was hanging limply by my side.
“A co-star went, ‘I don’t think that’s right.’ I was like, ‘Oh, it’s probably not.’”
New Lara Croft dislocated jaw during Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis sessions
