Evangeline Lilly Admits She Turned Down Offers to ‘X-Men’ and ‘Wonder Woman’.

Ant-Man and the Wasp star Evangelina LilliAged 43, he couldn’t help himself when he spoke Joseph Horowitz in his happy sad confused Thursday Podcasts. The blonde beauty not only shared she declined Hugh Jackmanoffer of a role in X Men franchise, but has also done the same thing when it comes to Joss WhedonIn Wonder Woman offer. “Hugh Jackman said, ‘Hey, so what? X Men guys ask me if I can approach you because they know you won’t talk to anyone,” he said jokingly. “They knew I was working with you and were interested to know if you would ever be interested in doing one. X Men things.” In response, Evangeline admitted, “I was like, ‘No. I don’t mind. I don’t care.’”

Despite telling the 54-year-old that she didn’t like her hit franchise, Evangeline noted how bad she still felt about it. “I was like, ‘I feel like an idiot because I’m talking to an X-Men! OR x men! And I tell him, ‘No, it’s not like that.’ Like what?!’ I felt so rude!” the 43-year-old told Josh. Later, the Lost the student said that “superhero movies” he simply “doesn’t like”.

“I wasn’t attracted to it and there was nothing about the encounter that excited me or made me think, ‘Oh, I have to do this.’ Nothing clicked. Nothing felt right,” said the mother of two. I’m too authentic for my own good. I mean, it’s not good. If I’m not impressed, you’ll know. he thought he would make a lot of money from either project. ‘I always had to do what felt right,’ he explained. ‘And honestly, I didn’t like superhero movies and that’s the main reason why, either way , I felt like I didn’t know what I was getting at”.

Though the Canadian native wasn’t a huge fan of superhero movies before, once she saw Marvel movies, she changed her mind. “And when I did [watch Marvel movies] I was like, ‘oh, they’re doing something really different and cool,'” the star continued. Finally, in 2015, Evangeline landed the role of Hope Pym in peyton caneIn Ant man next to Paul Rudd, 53. Although she was reluctant to take on the project, when Peyton joined, things changed for her. “It was the next iteration of the script,” she said.

“For me, everything lives and breathes and the script. Which is difficult in a Marvel movie because it’s always changing,” he continued. Evangeline also gave credit where it deserves and praised Marvel Studios for creating a “global feeling” so audiences know they’re “in the same universe.” “. In the end, the actress said she was “convinced” to join the Marvel project and her next film, avengers ending, in 2019. The next chapter of Ant man the franchise is Ant-Man and the Wasp: QuantummaniaIt will hit theaters on February 17. Evangeline and Paul will reprise their roles, with blockers kathrin newton26, and Devotion star jonathan older33, entering.

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