Alicia Vikander didn't speak to husband Michael Fassbender when they first met on the dancefloor

The talented couple tied the knot last year
Cover star: Alicia Vikander spoke to ELLE UK about married life and Lara Croft
Norman Jean Roy/ELLE UK
Natasha Sporn1 March 2018
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Alicia Vikander has opened up about being married to Michael Fassbender, revealing they first met on a dance floor.

The Tomb Raider actress married Fassbender in 2017 after meeting and falling in love on the set of The Light Between Oceans.

Vikander, who appears on the front of April’s ELLE UK, revealed how she only danced with Fassbender the first couple of times they were together at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The 29-year-old told the publication: “The first two times we met, we didn’t chat, we only danced.”

Lara Croft: The Tomb Raider star is on April's ELLE UK cover
Norman Jean Roy/ELLE UK

The loved-up couple recently moved to Lisbon, a move that the Lara Croft actress also spoke about.

She said: “When I met my husband three and a half years ago, he had mentioned he’d been to Lisbon and loved it, and I knew friends who were moving out there.

Loved up: Alicia Vikander opened up about meeting Michael Fassbender
Ian Gavan/Getty Images

“And that was a time when I was just starting to feel really at home in London, but after Brexit I think I was like, ‘Meh, you know what, I want to stay in Europe'.”

Vikander also admitted that her newest character, Croft, is a sex symbol “in some ways,” but admitted that she finds those “daring to speak up” more attractive.

“What makes a woman or a man attractive is someone who dares to speak up, who dares to show their personality,” she said. “It’s tough being a young girl at this time, you know?

“I’m now working in an industry which lives on creating an image, a fantasy and I feel like I need to show younger women that is what it is.”

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The full interview appears in the April issue of ELLE UK, on sale March 7.

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