
It’s a dizzying, serpentine flow of identities for a character who has kept little other than her name and her interest in tombs. And so she is different in the new movie of the new game: more human, less funny, more abs than boobs.

As a nod to that incarnation, Angelina Jolie in 2001 said “A-ha!” once to a bunch of huskies as she was escaping the tomb that she had raided. Her breasts were sort of triangular, made of light and pixels. In the old game Tomb Raider, she used to say “A-ha!” when she picked up something useful. Since 1996, Croft has run and jumped and spun across screens. The role she plays in her most recent movie is Lara Croft.


It is with a small shiver of self-disgust that I must sit down to write about the body of Alicia Vikander.
