In a recent interview with Movies.com, Evangeline Lilly talked about her role as television and big screen actress. Lilly explained what it meant her to be involved with big projects with big mysteries fans want to know, like Lost and Real Steel (alongside Hugh Jackman), and she talked about her crazy life when she was filming Lost and the projects that didn’t interest her years ago, but interest her now.
Evangeline talked also about The Hobbit movies, answering to the following question:
Movies.com: When working on a project like The Hobbit, where you put in work for a long period of time then have to step away for a big gap, is there a sense of loss of control over your work?
Evangeline Lilly: It’s a bit unnerving as an idea. Like on The Hobbit, I felt I only really got into Tauriel and the hang of playing her on the last week of production, and so you reach this point where you finally get into a groove and think you’re finally getting how you play them as second nature, and then they say “Okay, now go away and come back in a year and start again” and so you worry about how you’re going to step away, live another life, and then step back in again.
It was unnerving to me to know that was the notion of it, but once we came back to do reshoots… it’s like with Squickerwonkers… I think the incubation time actually makes it easier and more natural. I’d gotten more familiar with the character over the time that we were away, so when I came back I actually found it easier to step into the role than even on the last week of production. It was a very pleasant surprise because I expected it to be really f***ing hard.
You can read the full interview on Movies.com website.
