{"id":120880,"date":"2025-09-05T03:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120880\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T03:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:16:08","slug":"sophie-turner-competed-against-1-other-star-for-lara-croft-role-while-2-others-were-on-a-wish-list-eg-lara-croft-sophie-turner-tomb-raider-just-jared-celebrity-news-and-goss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120880\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Turner Competed Against 1 Other Star for \u2018Lara Croft\u2019 Role, While 2 Others Were On a Wish List | EG, lara croft, Sophie Turner, Tomb Raider | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/boynton-croft.jpg\" alt=\"Lucy Boynton\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lucy Boynton \u2013 Reportedly Screen Tested!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/10\/tomb-raider-sophie-turner-lucy-boynton-lara-croft-1236161243\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/10\/tomb-raider-sophie-turner-lucy-boynton-lara-croft-1236161243\/&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/lucy-boynton\/\" title=\"Lucy Boynton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucy Boynton<\/a> was the other actress who screen tested for the role of Lara Croft.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t know, Lucy is well known for her work in Bohemian Rhapsody and Murder On the Orient Express.<\/p>\n<p>The report that she screen tested is from back in October 2024, and Sophie\u2018s casting was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/09\/03\/sophie-turner-confirmed-as-lara-croft-for-prime-video-series-acknowledge-past-stars-angelina-jolie-alicia-vikander-in-statement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not announced until September 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"page-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/09\/04\/sophie-turner-competed-against-1-other-star-for-lara-croft-role-while-2-others-were-on-a-wish-list\/\" alt=\"Sophie Turner Competed Against 1 Other Star for &#039;Lara Croft&#039; Role, While 2 Others Were On a Wish List\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00ab First<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/09\/04\/sophie-turner-competed-against-1-other-star-for-lara-croft-role-while-2-others-were-on-a-wish-list\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00ab Previous <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucy Boynton \u2013 Reportedly Screen Tested! Deadline reports that Lucy Boynton was the other actress who screen tested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-120880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}