"She's super-tough and hard-working," says Lygdback.īy then, she was eating five times a day. Vikander did those exercises for an hour a day for six or seven days a week leading up to filming, in addition to training in rock climbing, swimming and more intensive MMA skills like chokeholds. While filming, she'd train every morning before makeup, which sometimes meant 4 a.m. They also don’t tell you that holding the pad while someone else hits it, well, that makes your head throb.īut that wasn't where my workout ended: A variety of squats, bear crawls, push-ups, assisted chin-ups and medicine ball tosses followed. They don’t tell you that this practice will immediately channel all of your aggression and drain every ounce of your energy. I, too, got a taste of that training by striking a thick pad with the heels of my palms and the top of my foot. To prep for fight scenes, Vikander learned to kick and punch like mixed martial arts athletes. Though Lygdback says he’s proud of all of Vikander’s Tomb Raider prep, he’s probably most excited about “the whole MMA fight,” he says. Here’s what Vikander went through to reshape her body. Still, when I tried out Vikander’s punishing Lara Croft workout, there were a few moments where I felt my body pushing to that limit right before seeing stars.įortunately, I did survive one day of the exercises that turned Vikander, 29, the svelte star in movies including Ex Machina, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Danish Girl, into the muscular rock-climbing, butt-kicking Croft. And, yes, she had been a trained ballet dancer years before taking on the role. Sure, the actress was under the careful watch of health and wellness trainer Magnus Lygdback (who'll next train Gal Gadot for Wonder Woman 2) for seven months prior to filming. The question must have come up while she was transforming into action heroine Lara Croft for the reboot (in theaters March 16) of the 2001 film starring Angelina Jolie.
LOS ANGELES - I wonder how many times Alicia Vikander thought to herself, while training for Tomb Raider: “Can my body handle this?”
ALICIA VIKANDER TOMB RAIDER DIET EXERCISE MOVIE
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