There, I found what I wanted! Beautiful antique pieces from the Orient, India, Pakistan, China…They were amazing. After a couple of meetings, though, he showed me his house.

We spent hours talking about the film, but I was not really impressed with the objects from the shop, and was doubly disappointed because I knew that nothing better was available in CT. I ordered a small assortment of antique pieces from London to have on hand, and all the rest were found in Cape Town! I went to see a shop of an antiques dealer who had never rented his pieces for a film before. “We were supposed to shoot this set in London, so when the production decided to shoot in Cape Town instead, I was really worried that we might not be able to find the right dressing over there. On the big board behind his desk, we can find maps, notes, pictures and other images of his secret world.” We decided to dress it in two different sections: a lab with microscopes and tools where he classified archeological artifacts, the other side a proper studio with his desk, books and antiques pieces found around the world. Giovannetti reveals, “The underground studio was like a bunker. He began searching for proof of the supernatural following the death of his wife, Lara’s mother. The hidden studio reflects Croft’s true passion as an archaeologist, one trying to keep dark organizations from uncovering hidden relics that hold mystical power by discovering them first and caretaking. She’s a strong girl, and the story sets that tone right away.”Īs did the sets that include Lara’s East End apartment that she shares with multiple roommates, a bicycle repair shop where couriers tend to hangout, the long-used gym, a pawn shop, cheap Indian restaurant.all in great contrast to her father’s holding company headquartered in London, a corporate giant with the vast portfolio of global companies big and small. You see her sparring with her friends at an MMA gym, and she’s a bike courier who loves to go out and race in the street. “But we wanted the audience to know she is a physical being. “When you meet Lara in the beginning of the film, she’s a regular girl living in East London,” Vikander relates. Plus, an NH90 state-of-the-art helicopter, a steel-hulled fishing trawler, and a World War II bomber that tips over into a waterfall, all in one film. Freeman says, “It was an exciting challenge to go from the slightly hippie culture/artistic part of London to a bustling Hong Kong seaport to an uncharted Japanese island with an almost prehistoric, impenetrable quality to it. Suddenly, the stakes couldn’t be higher for Lara, who-against the odds and armed with only her sharp mind, blind faith and inherently stubborn spirit-must learn to push herself beyond her limits as she journeys into the unknown.įor this global adventure, Set Decorator Raffaella Giovannetti SDSA and Production Designer Gary Freeman took on the double challenge of creating different parts of the world for the most part in and around Cape Town, South Africa and London. But her mission will not be an easy one just reaching the island will be extremely treacherous. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father’s global empire just as staunchly as she rejects the idea that he’s truly gone.Īdvised to face the facts and move forward after seven years without him, even Lara can’t understand what drives her to finally solve the puzzle of his mysterious deathLeaving everything she knows behind, Lara goes in search of her dad’s last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent. Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen.

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