{"id":136080,"date":"2026-03-30T13:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/sophie-turner-injury-halts-filming-on-tomb-raider-tv-show\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:02:49","slug":"sophie-turner-injury-halts-filming-on-tomb-raider-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/sophie-turner-injury-halts-filming-on-tomb-raider-tv-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Turner injury halts filming on Tomb Raider TV show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filming on the new Tomb Raider series has been paused after actress Sophie Turner sustained an injury, the show\u2019s bosses have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Game of Thrones star plays heroine Lara Croft \u2013 a globe-trotting archaeologist \u2013 in the upcoming video game adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>A Prime Video spokesperson confirmed Turner had recently suffered a \u201cminor injury\u201d, although didn\u2019t confirm if it happened on or off-set.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a precaution, production has briefly paused to allow her time to recover. We look forward to resuming production as soon as possible,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>The streamer did not confirm how long the pause would last, nor did it give further details on the nature of the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Turner has been spotted recording action scenes on location since she was confirmed as the new Lara Croft last year.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old previously told SiriusXM host Julia Cunningham she\u2019d discovered she had \u201ca perpetual back problem\u201d during a gruelling, months-long training regime in the run-up to the show.<\/p>\n<p>Turner previously said she had \u201cmassive shoes to fill\u201d when taking on the role, which has been filled by Oscar winners Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Filming on the new Tomb Raider series has been paused after actress Sophie Turner sustained an injury, the show\u2019s bosses have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Game of Thrones star plays heroine Lara Croft \u2013 a globe-trotting archaeologist \u2013 in the upcoming video game adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>A Prime Video spokesperson confirmed Turner had recently suffered a \u201cminor injury\u201d, although didn\u2019t confirm if it happened on or off-set.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a precaution, production has briefly paused to allow her time to recover. We look forward to resuming production as soon as possible,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>The streamer did not confirm how long the pause would last, nor did it give further details on the nature of the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Turner has been spotted recording action scenes on location since she was confirmed as the new Lara Croft last year.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old previously told SiriusXM host Julia Cunningham she\u2019d discovered she had \u201ca perpetual back problem\u201d during a gruelling, months-long training regime in the run-up to the show.<\/p>\n<p>Turner previously said she had \u201cmassive shoes to fill\u201d when taking on the role, which has been filled by Oscar winners Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/sophie-turner-injury-halts-filming-on-tomb-raider-tv-show\/\">Sophie Turner injury halts filming on Tomb Raider TV show<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filming on the new Tomb Raider series has been paused after actress Sophie Turner sustained an injury, the show\u2019s bosses have confirmed. The Game of Thrones star plays heroine Lara Croft \u2013 a globe-trotting archaeologist \u2013 in the upcoming video game adaptation. A Prime Video spokesperson confirmed Turner had recently suffered a \u201cminor injury\u201d, although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}