Actress gets in on the action
HUSBANDS, headlines, kids and awards ago, Angelina Jolie was Miss “Tomb Raider.” No more. In its new incarnation, that Lara Croft role is Alicia Vikander.
“The Danish Girl” says: “I’ve dreamt since I was a kid to do a big-action adventure. At age 8, friends had a PlayStation and they played ‘Lara Croft.’ ”
About the film’s physical exploits: “Pain? Real. Water? Cold. Bruises and hits you just suck up. The chill is the tough thing. When you reach hypothermia level, we had to reshoot because I turned too blue.” Walton Goggins, playing the villain, says he’s not that buff. “I was embarrassed to take my shirt off, and I go to the gym five days a week.”
Bits & pieces
JOANNA Bonaro, of some show called “Good ’ n Screwed,” just taped Maureen Van Zandt’s Generation Gap podcast. Maureen, aka Mrs. Steven Van
Zandt, who plays with some guy named Springsteen . . . DESPITE
Liam Neeson in every other film and Denzel gearing for B’way, here’s Taraji P. Henson: “Soon as we women get older they send us out to pasture.”
our cops
I DON’T know why, but my thoughts just ran to Sgt.
Conor McDonald, the cop son of the late shot and paralyzed patrolman Steven McDonald. At a time when some think it’s quick and smart to rap our NYPD, let’s never forget those who are no longer here and it’s because they were here for us.