Evangeline Lilly Hates Seeing Herself in Early Seasons of ‘Lost’: ‘I Know I Don’t Do It Very Well’

Evangeline Lilly is in the midst of promoting ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’, her latest release in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and in an interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, she looked back on her career and She acknowledged that her work in ‘Lost’, the series that made her famous, was not very good in her opinion.

“We had ‘Lost’ parties where the cast would get together to watch the show, and when there was a Kate-centric episode, I wanted to curl up in a hole and die because I knew I was doing it wrong.”recalls Lilly, who was only 24 when she started playing Kate Austen, “To this day I cling to the fact that if I watch the first two seasons I cringe because I’m not very good.” But it wasn’t always like this, something snapped and things changed: “I think season 3 was a turning point, where I went from panicking, trying to figure out what I needed to do, to just rolling around, feeling it, and going with my gut to ‘I hate this, I don’t want to do this, take me out of here’. to then “Well, I guess if I’m here, I’m stuck and I’m going to stay, so I should figure that out”… And it was in Season 3 when I started trying to learn my craft.” After ‘Lost’ ended, Lilly appeared in ‘Pure Steel’, was Tauriel in ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ and ‘The Battle of the Five Armies’ and then came her Wasp, the Hope Van Dyne from ‘Ant-Man’.

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Of course, Wasp wasn’t the first superhero role she’s been offered, just the first she’s accepted. The actress herself revealed that Joss Whedon wanted her as Wonder Woman and that Hugh Jackman intended to cast her for the ‘X-Men’: “I wasn’t attracted to it and there was nothing about the encounter that pleased me or encouraged me or made me think, ‘Oh, I have to do this.’ Nothing clicked. Nothing felt right.” explains about his meeting with Whedon, “I’m too authentic for my own good. I mean, it’s not good. If you don’t impress me, you’ll know. And maybe sometimes it shouldn’t show.” And something like this must have happened with Jackman: “I was like, ‘No. I’m not interested. I’m not interested.’ I was like, ‘I feel like an asshole because I’m talking to an X-Men! The X-Men! And I’m like, ‘No, I’m just not into that.'” What, what?! I felt so rude! I was too young.” ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’, the third installment of the ‘Ant-Man’ saga, is already in theaters.