Playing Antonio LeBlanc’s supportive wife, Kathy, in Blue Bayou is Alicia Vikander, who earned an Academy Award in 2016 for playing the supportive wife of a transgender woman in The Danish Girl, after giving an Oscar-worthy performance in 2014’s Ex Machina as a humanesque robot.
Hopefully, however, we will see the star of Julie Taymor’s The Glorias and A24’s recent fantasy epic The Green Knight return to her role as video game icon Lara Croft in Tomb Raider 2 soon enough.
The Swedish actress made her English-language debut in 2012 with Anna Karenina, followed by another biopic (The Fifth Estate starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange), before becoming better known for blockbuster thrillers like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (a 2015 remake of the 1960s TV series), the 2016 Jason Bourne sequel, and as a part of Netflix’s Beckett cast in 2021, despite not being the center of the action.