Three months after the birth of her baby boy, ‘Lost’ star Evangeline Lilly is the latest ‘Hobbit’ celebrity to have been spotted in New Zealand’s capital of Wellington, following reports of Orlando Bloom, Stephen Fry, James Nesbitt, and Martin Freeman already being in the area. This past Sunday (August 21), she was seen going for a walk with her newborn child and boyfriend, Norman Kali.
Lilly, well-known for her role as Kate Austen on the ABC drama Lost, went on a self-imposed hiatus back in 2009.
“People are excited to try on the next chapter of their lives,” she told New York Magazine. “This show is all-encompassing. We have had very little experience outside of the show during the last six years because it’s just so demanding. It requires so much of us. So, it’s exciting to have your freedom back, essentially.”
Lilly is now in New Zealand to begin filming for Peter Jackson’s highly anticipated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, in which she will be portraying the Elf maiden Tauriel.
“Her name means ‘daughter of Mirkwood’ and, beyond that, we must leave you guessing!” said director Peter Jackson back in June. “What is not a secret is how talented and compelling an actress Evangeline is. We are thrilled and excited she will be the one to bring our first true Sylvan Elf to life.”
A spokesman for Jackson stated that filming had resumed last week and will continue until December.
