Before Alicia Vikander strapped on boots to play video game icon Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, Angelina Jolie played the athletic role over two films: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003). But Jolie didn’t become the weapon-wielding Croft without fighting a few behind-the-scenes battles of her own.
When Jolie landed the role of the action heroine in the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, the 24-year-old star, then dating Billy Bob Thornton, had a wild-child reputation. In a previously published excerpt in The Hollywood Reporter from a biography of film executive Sherry Lansing...
When Jolie landed the role of the action heroine in the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, the 24-year-old star, then dating Billy Bob Thornton, had a wild-child reputation. In a previously published excerpt in The Hollywood Reporter from a biography of film executive Sherry Lansing...
- 3/14/2018
- by Jodi Guglielmi
- PEOPLE.com
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