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Lara Croft's newest voice actor accidentally dislocated her jaw and popped it right back in while trying to record a fight scene for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, just in case you were worried she wasn't tough enough to play the badass icon.
Dragon Age: Inquisition star Alix Wilton Regan is now adopting the iconic dual pistols and blue tank top of Lara Croft in two new games. Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis looks to remake and overhaul the series' very first entry, while Tomb Raider: Catalyst takes her on an all new adventure sometime next year.
Though it seems digitally inhabiting the role also comes with the workplace dangers you'd expect a raider of tombs to run into, as Wilton Regan told GamesRadar+ she got so excited about a fight scene that she punched herself in the face by mistake.
"The biggest challenge on this has been me restraining myself at points because I throw myself into every scene with such energy," she says. "I actually punched myself in the face the other day. This is a true story, by the way. You guys can check this with the dev team."
Three-and-a-half hours into a recording session, the developers at Crystal Dynamics wanted to capture vocalizations for a fight scene that apparently involved lots of kicking and punching. "I can't do anything by halves, this is me we're talking about," the star explains, so she also acted out the movements herself while making the sounds Lara would.
"As I go to do the punch across, right as I go to do the hook, I literally hooked myself in the jaw, dislocated my jaw, popped my jaw out... Anyway, it's fine. I've done it before, but everyone on Zoom was like, 'Shit, no, we killed Lara.'" That didn't stop her for long, though. "So we obviously paused recording for 20 minutes while I popped my jaw back in place, put an ice pack on it. It was really quite intense."
"I was only reminded by this because the big, big boss who's here today was like, 'What did I hear about what happened to you in the last session? I got told that, like, you punched yourself in the face or something,' and I was like, 'I'd really actually rather not talk about it, Chris, but fine, whatever.'"
In her own words, "they hired the right woman for the job." And that's hard to argue with after hearing a story so intense.
