Angelina Jolie Fully into Role

Angelina Jolie's passion for performing extends to doing her own stunts, says Simon Crane, stunt coordinator on Tomb Raider, which the Oscar-winning actress is shooting in London. The trailer premieres today in theaters.

''I would rate Angelina very highly against all of the action actors I have worked with,'' says Crane, whose work includes Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart and Vertical Limit.

''We've done a couple of sequences that involve stunts you won't have seen a woman do before, and basically she is doing almost all of these stunts herself,'' Crane says. ''We did a bungee-jumping sequence, and she went through three months' training to be able to do it. She's just done all these somersaults for another sequence. I was very impressed.''

The film, out in June, is based on the popular video game. Jolie plays Lara Croft, a Pulitzer Prize-winning art collector, photojournalist, adventurer and aristocrat who gets into adventures involving lost civilizations. The stunts and action sequences are in the Indiana Jones/James Bond mode, Crane says.

And while the actress is up for the challenge, Crane has his own. ''It's a question of telling Angelina that she's not allowed to do this or that,'' he says. ''She can be a very stubborn lady. But I can be more stubborn.''