PHOTOSEvangeline Lilly Says She Was 'Cornered' Into 'Lost' Nude Scene — 'I Was Crying My eyes Out'
Jul. 8 2019, Updated 2:15 a.m. ET
Former Lost star Evangeline Lilly opened up about some very uncomfortable nude scenes she had to film for the show, explaining that she was essentially forced into them. Read on for more details.
The Ant-Man and the Wasp star sat down with The Lost Boys podcast to talk about her time on the show Lost and some of her worst memories from the series, including a few very uncomfortable nude scenes.
"In season 3, I’d had a bad experience on set with being basically cornered into doing a scene partially naked, and I felt I had no choice in the matter," Lilly explained. "And I was mortified and I was trembling and when it finished, I was crying my eyes out and I had to go on to do a very formidable, very strong scene thereafter."
She then went on to recount another time she felt obligated to undress on camera. "In season 4, another scene came up where Kate was undressing and I fought very hard to have that scene be under my control and I failed to control it again," she said. "And so I then said, 'That’s it, no more. You can write whatever you want—I won’t do it. I will never take my clothes off on this show again,' and I didn’t."
The actress also talked about how she was disappointed overall with the way her character's storyline went, saying she went head-to-head with the show's writers and producers about it. "At the beginning, she was kinda cool, and then as the show went on, she became more and more predictable and obnoxious," Lilly said. "I felt like my character went from being anonymous—really having her own story and her own journey and her own agendas—to chasing two men around the island and that irritated the shit out of me. And I did throw scripts across rooms when I’d read them because I would get very frustrated by the diminishing amount of autonomy she had and the diminishing amount of her own story there was to play."
"I wanted her to be better," she continued, "because she was an icon for strength and autonomy for women, and I thought we could have done better than that. The great thing about that is that she was flawed, and that’s so important. If you don’t have flaws in the women on screen, then what you’re telling the world is that women have perfect if they’re going to be lovable. And if you have flawed women on screen who are also icons of femininity, who are also beloved, then it gives us all permission to be flawed."
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