Fronting that step forward is Evangeline Lilly, who many know as the tough airplane-crash survivor Kate on ABC’s aughts cult TV hit Lost. Lilly doesn’t step out for just any role these days, having briefly retired from the industry, published a children’s book series, developed more writing projects and started a family since Lost ended. She’s choosy: The Hobbit series, where she played Tauriel, gave her the chance to be a woodland elf who could rival Legolas in wielding a bow-and-arrow. 2015’s Ant-Man offered her the possibility to become a superheroine. In its sequel, she realizes that promise by donning a suit and demonstrating her fighting ability (outside Ant-Man’s single training sequence).
Even after receiving equal billing, however, the actress fought to empower her character scene-by-scene. As Lilly described it to The Hollywood Reporter in an interview, her character Hope van Dyne had the potential to “school marm-ish”; Lilly wanted to make sure she could be competent and take a joke, too. Read the full conversation below.
Evangeline Lilly on how she “challenged” herself to speak up on the ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp’ set
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no one cares.
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No one watches Ant-Man for his sidekick. It’s just a fact. I don’t think she should be given equal billing, since I bet alot less people would watch a “Wasp” movie. Some people just don’t seem to understand how it works. It’s not a gender thing, it’s an experience and recognition thing. She’s not “brave” for challenging what she got, she’s just plain whiny.
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That is why the gender/race swapping of the comic books does not work too, the characters are sucessful because they are one way, dont change it for no reason, that is just a marketing thinking and not an artistic vision
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lol what?
