Sophie Turner will not be a “sex bombshell” like Lara Croft in the new ‘Tomb Raider’
The famous actress from ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘X-Men’ will bring the iconic video game heroine to life in a new Prime Video series.
Lara Croft will return once again to the screen after previous portrayals by Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander, this time leaving cinema behind to offer fans a series starring Sophie Turner, the famous British actress from ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘X-Men’. But she will do so in a different way than might be expected, as her creators, led by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, have discarded the more classic and sexy Lara Croft to offer a more character-focused vision, above the spectacle and sexualization of the original. Sophie Turner herself has confirmed this: “There will be no pointy boobs involved,” she told Screen Rant.
Sophie Turner: a more realistic Lara Croft
The creators of the new Amazon series have no intention of sexualizing Lara Croft. Sophie Turner herself has celebrated the fact that there are “no pointy boobs involved”—an image taken from the early video games that has become a universal meme—emphasizing the character and her story “rather than representing a stereotype.” The actress says she is doing her best to offer fans a strong Lara Croft with personality and not just a simple “sex bombshell.”
“It’s about her and her story and what drives her, rather than what so many people also love about her, which is how hot she is in the games and the movies,” Turner said. “But I really want to show the other side. She’s so unashamedly capable. She is not a woman who hides her strengths at all.”
Lara is not a damsel in distress, nor is she a princess to be admired and adored. She is a complex, independent, and confident woman who can save herself, and Turner knows it. When the first Tomb Raider video game was released in 1996, Croft stood out because there weren’t many other female characters like her in the video game industry.
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In addition, the creative team responsible, with Waller-Bridge herself also handling the script, ensures that the series will have a modern approach, with a special emphasis on character development, telling an authentic and more realistic story rather than relying on genre clichés. The new ‘Tomb Raider’ series does not yet have a release date on Prime Video, although it should arrive sometime in 2027.
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