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A caller escapade awaits everyone’s favourite female explorer.
First announced astatine The Game Awards 2025, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis reimagines Lara Croft’s genre-defining 1996 debut for a caller generation. The upcoming title follows nan legendary adventurer arsenic she battles dinosaurs, panthers and quality enemies; navigates treacherous environments and races to uncover nan secrets of nan mislaid metropolis of Atlantis.
Stepping into nan domiciled is Alix Wilton Regan, who provides some nan sound and afloat capacity seizure for Lara successful nan game. For nan actress, inheriting 1 of gaming’s astir iconic characters is some a dream travel existent and a responsibility. Nearly 3 decades aft Lara first burst onto screens, Legacy of Atlantis intends to grant nan tone of nan original escapade while expanding nan characteristic for modern audiences.
Ahead of nan game’s 2027 merchandise astatine Summer Game Fest 2026, Deadline said pinch Regan astir landing nan domiciled aft an extended audition process, nan beingness demands of bringing Lara to life and why nan iconic wealth huntsman remains arsenic applicable arsenic ever.
DEADLINE: How did nan domiciled of Lara Croft travel to you?
REGAN: It was a very accepted casting process. My supplier sent it to maine while connected vacation successful Italy. She called maine and was like, ‘This is 1 you request to do, OK? Non-negotiable.’ [Laughs] And everything was, of course, codification named and secretive.
And I was like, ‘Wait, what is it?’ and she said, ‘It’s Lara Croft. It’s [for] nan caller Tomb Raider games.’ I was like, ‘Say less.’ I did 4 rounds of auditions crossed 8 months aliases so; past I sewage nan job.
DEADLINE: You did nan capacity seizure too. Can you talk astir nan physicality that went into that?
When I sewage formed arsenic Lara, I was really dedicated to going to weight training 3 times a week. I was running. I emotion my location [London] but 1 of nan champion things astir doing afloat capacity seizure successful Los Angeles is you person awesome hiking trails. We person nary hiking trails successful London. And truthful each greeting earlier I spell to group [to do] nan capacity capture, I’m up astatine 5 a.m, past I do 30 minutes of emails and messages that person travel done from London whilst I was asleep. Then I’m moving up location successful Baldwin Hills aliases astatine nan gym lifting weights. I person to aftermath my assemblage and encephalon up.
But besides it’s not conscionable astir waking up nan assemblage and nan brain, it’s besides astir emotion rather strong. You request to consciousness your muscles truthful that erstwhile you person 3 men trying to pin you down successful a scene, you tin conflict your measurement retired of it.
DEADLINE: Lara Croft, undeniably, iconic. But why do you deliberation she’s still truthful prevalent successful popular civilization 30 years retired from her creation? What does she symbolize for you and nan civilization astatine large?
If we’re going backmost to ’96, Lara, I think, symbolized female strength. She was a female protagonist, which was almost unheard of, not conscionable successful nan video crippled world, but successful nan taste mainstream. Even successful nan ’90s, location were not that galore films aliases TV shows led by women, [specifically] much peculiarly strong, independent, unapologetic and assured women. She besides has a definite benignant of British charm and she’s highly intelligent, very witty. I deliberation each of that appeals to nan world audience. Then she started to transverse complete from video games into mag covers. Lara Croft has been connected more mag covers than immoderate supermodel ever — that’s remarkable.
Then those movies pinch Angelina Jolie deed nan scene, and much games came from location and truthful forth. Everyone was paying attraction to her and past I was paying attraction to her arsenic a British female myself. And I was like, ‘God, she’s cool. God, she’s strong. God, she takes nary shit. Wouldn’t it beryllium astonishing to play Lara Croft?’
I person to show you something: PlayStation Magazine compiled a database sometime successful nan mid-2010s, but they were like, ‘Who should beryllium nan adjacent Lara Croft?’ And they put maine connected that list. At that time, I was like, I mean, I would emotion to, but nary one’s approached maine astir this. So, it’s weirdly afloat circle. But, she’s ever been a dream. She is nan astir iconic video crippled characteristic of each time. Never mind nan truth that she’s a woman.
DEADLINE: Were location immoderate beingness aliases vocal attributes that you thought astir pinch respect to bringing her capacity to life?
Absolutely. I would opportunity I started pinch nan beingness for Lara. I’ve talked astir it a small bit, but things for illustration upping nan weight training and getting backmost into boxing; I was emotion very embodied wrong myself. I channeled groundedness and confidence. I had some feet planted connected nan level and channeled nan assurance that comes pinch knowing you’ve sewage dual pistol straps to your body, [which] is evidently very nosy and empowering. Then I thought astir that charming and barren joke of hers. It’s very British. So, I’d really opportunity nan physicality informed nan sound alternatively than nan different measurement astir successful peculiar connected this task because it’s afloat capacity seizure for nan cinematics and batch of nan bits successful between.
Also pinch my voice, Lara is besides astatine a [lower register] — very thorax sound and not caput voice, I would say.
DEADLINE: And lastly, who is nan Lara Croft that group are going to beryllium seeing successful this game? What tin you tease?
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is very overmuch a reimagining of Lara’s debut adventure. So for everyone who played nan crippled successful 1996, this crippled is perfectly existent to nan halfway of nan first Tomb Raider. That being said, location are galore caller twists and turns and surprises that I deliberation group are going to emotion indulging in. And of course, nan characteristic of Lara Croft herself is greatly expanded upon because it’s a reimagining. It’s very overmuch not a remake aliases a remaster. It’s a re-imagining, if there’s 1 connection I could usage to sum up this Lara; we are very overmuch backmost and bigger, bolder than ever.
We are very overmuch successful nan era of classical Lara and nan connection that I personally usage is ‘unapologetic.’ That’s nan word. She is unapologetic, and it’s really absorbing to play that arsenic a female because location was a convention 2 weeks ago, 3 weeks ago, and I conscionable took a small micro-pause and I said, ‘I don’t think…’ And connected nan telephone location are women creatives, location are antheral creatives. And I said, ‘I don’t deliberation you each afloat recognize really unsocial it is to beryllium a female saying these lines pinch nary apology attached [on] either side.’ No, there’s no, ‘Sorry, tin I make a point?’ There’s no, ‘I conscionable wanted to say.’ She conscionable says it. She gets connected and says it because she’s truthful self-possessed and that’s an incredibly charismatic value to person arsenic a woman, but it’s still a really different value to have, moreover successful this time and age, moreover successful 2026.
DEADLINE: I mean, it’s genuinely awesome to spot a spot of that fierce spark successful nan gameplay I conscionable did. But, also, I dislike to segue for illustration this, but her outfit and her reimagined characteristic creation of nan iconic outfit. I do consciousness for illustration we request to admit that earlier I go.
[Looks astatine a poster down her] Look, while we are talking astir her looking good, her butt looks fucking awesome successful this. You tin quote maine connected that — because I person looked astatine it a lot. This Lara is smoking hot. I person nary notes to nonstop backmost to nan animation squad aliases nan creation squad isolated from: Thank you for making maine look truthful extraordinary. She has a really strong, gorgeous body. The assemblage of a female who is engaged tomb raiding, and I deliberation if we were each engaged tomb raiding this is what we would look like. [Laughs]
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis will travel to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC Februrary 12, 2027. An original game, Tomb Raider: Catalyst — group amid a mysterious disaster that sends Lara to Northern India to uncover ancient secrets guarded by powerful, mysterious forces — is besides group to debut sometime successful 2027.
