![]() I always give them my time, it’s lovely to meet them and it’s amazing to hear their stories.Netflix's upcoming anime series based on the Tomb Raider franchise has reportedly cast Hayley Atwell (Agent Carter) as the voice actor behind Lara Croft, according to The Hollywood Reporter.įirst announced back in January, the Tomb Raider anime will follow Lara Croft's adventures after the events of the Crystal Dynamics reboot trilogy, which wrapped up with 2018's Shadow of the Tomb Raider. When I meet them in the flesh – and when I hear how far they’ve travelled – I mean, I’m not Michael Jackson! I’m so grateful for and respectful of that. I thought I’d maybe get one follower, but every single day people follow me, ask questions about it and tell me about their love for it. No, for me, I didn’t realise how big it still is until I was asked to go to a Comic Con. They certainly used to, now I think they know me a bit better and know not to ask me anything about the game! What’s it like meeting fans? Do they assume you know the game inside out? When she was offered the role, she rang me to check I was OK with her doing it, that’s how close we are, she didn’t want to offend me! Of course I was like, “Oh you’re kidding, do it!” We’ve known each other for around 26 years. We used to do musicals in the West End together and we were on the same presenting circuit. I’m very friendly with Jonell, who was the third classic Lara. And now, as adults, they play the game and it reminds them of that and how far they’ve come. ![]() Lots of people tell me about how they were terribly bullied at school, or didn’t want to come out to their parents, and that they would take solace in playing the game and “becoming” Lara as an escape. In fact it’s mainly women that write to me they feel like they want to be Lara, something about her appeals to them, they love her kick-ass attitude. To me, she looked like the sort of character a man would want to play as, but I was amazed by how much women loved her. What was your experience of the phenomenon it quickly became? ![]() I wanted to make her sexier, with more inflection, but they wanted it more monosyllabic. I had to keep pulling it back all the time. I had to hold myself back, I think Judith and Jonell were given more free rein. I heard back saying they wanted to do a conference call with Eidos, where I think they asked things like “Can you say “welcome to my home”?”, so I went “welcome to my home”, and that was it! I think they said quite well-spoken, not plummy, very sure of herself, and doesn’t mind getting her hands dirty. Well, later on, when I’d got the job and was in the actual booth with them, they said to do a Sean Connery as Bond-type feel, but English. I cranked up the tape recorder, recorded the lines and sent them by post. They’d been looking for the voice for six to nine months, and I totally thought I wasn’t going to get it. The game publisher Eidos sent some pictures and said to use them to create the voice myself. My agent contacted me and said they were looking for this voice for a fighter, an action doll-type character. I’d previously voiced a robot called “Ice” on a BBC kids series called Total Reality, but Tomb Raider was the first proper audition I had. They came backstage after the show and asked to be my voiceover agent. It was by fluke that someone came to see the show I was in at the time, Only The Lonely, where I had to do lots of different accents, including that of Patsy Cline and Orbison’s German wife Barbara. I was very musical, so lots of singing and dancing, and also comedy, commercials, TV. Hi Shelley! What were you working on before you got the role?īefore voice acting, I was an actor on stage. To celebrate, we thought it fit to go right back to the start, to hear from the original voice behind the character, Shelley Blond, on the legacy and lasting impact of Lara Croft.
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