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ALICIA VIKANDER ON BEING BRAVE AND BUYING HER OWN BLING As the actress gathered with her fellow Bulgari brand ambassadors at the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Venice for the jewellery house’s celebration of its Festa High Jewellery collection, Oscar winner and Vogue cover star Alicia Vikanda tells Vogue’s jewellery editor, Carol Woolton, what jewellery means to her, and why she is tougher than she looks. Dressed in black jeans and a jacket, Alicia Vikander makes simple statement against the baroque splendour of Venice’s Gritti Palace, where she’s staying to attend the Bulgari Festa party with her boyfriend Michael Fassbender. She’s recently finished filming the role of Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (due for release March 2018), but looking at her delicate features and petite frame it’s hard to believe that she has the physical strength for the perilous stunts required. “During one scene I was thrown into a river of ice cold water fifty times with my hands tied,” she recalls. “It had to be continuous, as they didn’t have time to dry me off in between because that’s when you risk getting hypothermic. My family and friends laugh now because I’m thrown into freezing water at some point in all my films!” Surely there wasn’t a water stunt in this summer’s Tulip Fever set against the backdrop of the tulip wars in Seventeenth Century Holland? “Oh yes,” she laughed. “They’ve actually cut the scene where I had to run into the sea wearing my costume of seven skirts, various different corsets and a huge collar, which were so heavy floating around me in the water." Challenging feats don’t faze Vikander, instead she likens them to her dance training with the Royal Swedish Ballet School and they’re an after-thought when she chooses work. I never think about anything that might hurt me, or that I’ll have to wear only a tank top,” she joked about Croft’s iconic costume. “It’s always down to the script and a story that speaks to me.” She was drawn to playing the part previously made famous by Angelina Jolie having had a relationship with the character growing up in Sweden - not at home where video games were banned, but with friends. “I’d never seen a female protagonist in a game before and I was struck by her great will power and intelligence, and she’s extremely fierce with an instinct for survival.” Vikander feels strongly that Croft is a positive role model for young women and this latest film shows her vulnerability, as well as her journey to carve out her place in the world. With each new film role Vikader gains a piece of jewellery, it’s a small tradition she began after winning her first English-speaking role in the film Anna Karenina and apt given her brand ambassador status for Bulgari, which sees her regularly model the brand alongside fellow actors and models including lily Aldridge, Lottie Moss, and Bella Hadid. “I was in New York walking along the street when Joe Wright called to tell me that he wanted me to play Kitty. I had no one to tell because I couldn’t get hold of my parents, so I went into a shop and bought a Scandinavian-looking gold bangle. It was a wonderful feeling buy a gift for myself.” But, as she’s been in a trailer filming for the last few months, she has yet to add a Tomb Raider jewel to the collection. Today she’s wearing a single B Zero 1 gold ring, in spite of being linked with Fassbender since 2014, the fingers on her left hand remain defiantly naked. My parents were divorced when I was three months old and my father is happily married to his fourth wife, so marriage as an idea has never meant that much. For me, the word family means everything, that’s the true connection. And I think it's better to come up with your own romantic ideas because that’s what will give you wonderful memories. In-between films, Vikander spends time decorating her London home (“I’m addicted to Pinterest, I’ve loved making moodboards and collages since I was a kid”) and she muses that playing with colour and textures for interiors is like choosing jewellery to wear. "It’s a wonderful way to give personality and spark,” she smiled. Source: vogue.co.uk

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