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It’s official: Sophie Turner is going to be our next Lara Croft. Following the bisexual footsteps of Angelina Jolie (and the straight-I-think-but-played-gay-in-Irma-Vep Alicia Vikander), Game of Thrones alum and Do Revenge scene stealer Sophie Turner will be taking on the role of the iconic archaeologist and all-around badass in the upcoming Prime Video Tomb Raider series, helmed by Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Waller-Bridge calls Sophie Turner “formidable” and is excited to jump into the world of a character she grew up loving, calling Lara Croft “outrageous, brave, and hilarious” which I imagine is how we’ll be able to describe the show.
On taking on the role, Sophie Turner says she is “thrilled beyond measure,” that she has “massive shoes to fill.” She says, “I can’t wait for you all to see what we have cooking.” And I can’t wait either! I don’t know about you guys, but the pixelated form of Lara Croft and her braid and thigh holsters from the video games was one of my early roots, only amplified by the 2001 movie starring Angelina Jolie, who I already loved from Girl, Interrupted.
This Tomb Raider show has been in the works for quite some time, with the show originally going into development as early as 2023, being officially greenlit in 2024, and then despite rumors of Sophie Turner being linked later that year, it has been radio silence on the Tomb Raider front until now, the show reportedly going through two writers rooms without approved scripts. They must have figured it out though, because Sophie Turner is more than just a rumor now, and production is officially set to start in January 2026.
Between Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Sophie Turner, I have no doubt this will be a delightful show, and I’m excited to see Turner take on the braid of badassery. Also, hopefully the show is queer! As I mentioned last week, Sophie Turner sure is not shy about her own queerness or loving the queer attention she gets!
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+ Laverne Cox lead Team Laverne on Celebrity Family Feud, the show’s first all-trans team
+ Actress Chloë Grace Moretz and model Kate Harrison got married this weekend
+ I have seen Lost and Delirious so I am not surprised at all to learn that H is for Hawk is a film adaptation of the memoir of non-binary writer Helen Macdonald, whose screenplay was written by lesbian author Emma Donahugh
+ Fifth Harmony, sans Camilla Cabello but including bisexual artist Lauren Jauregui, reunited at the Jonas Brothers concert
+ Pansexual actress Julia Fox’s new horror movie HIM comes out later this month and the poster is spooky as hell
+ Alison Cochrun (author of one of my favorite queer romcom books, Here We Go Again) talks about her upcoming queer novel and coming out later in life
+ Sophie Turner has officially been confirmed for the upcoming Tomb Raider movie as not the first and hopefully not the last bisexual woman to pick up the Lara Croft baton
+ I know Florence Pugh isn’t openly queer but I know she is of interest to many, many queer women so I just need you all to join me in putting “Florence Pugh, Bond Girl” OR “Florence Pugh, James Bond” energy out into the universe – as my friend so succinctly put it in our group chat, imagine the SUITS
+ They finished filming the Buffy pilot and I cannot contain my excitement
+ Meet the new cast of Dancing with the Stars, which includes aforementioned bisexual Lauren Jauregui
+ Women Wearing Shoulder Pads features plenty of different types of queer representation
+ Gigi Gorgeous thinks that if trans teens need a little makeup, they should be allowed to steal it and frankly I wouldn’t stop them
+ Colman Domingo dressed in drag with Sabrina Carpenter in new music video
+ Last but not least, if you’ve been itching for an Orphan Black rewatch, my fellow clonesbians, our sestras are officially on Netflix now, and almost immediately zipped into the Top 10, where they belong
Wednesday 2×06 was SO good on so many levels.