Even the charms of Hugh Jackman were not enough to convince Evangeline Lilly to become an X-Man (or woman, as the case may be). Doing the promotional rounds for her new film, Ant-Man and the Wasp: …
guys are asking me if I would approach you because they know that you won’t talk to anybody,” she said. “They knew I was working with you and were interested to know if it would ever interest you to do an 'Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania' Review: Paul Rudd Is Back In Action But Has He Met His Match In Jonathan Majors' Kang & What Does It Mean For MCU's Phase 5 Start?“I was like, ‘No. It doesn’t interest me. I’m not interested,'” she recalled.
“It didn’t appeal and there was nothing about the meeting that, like, jazzed me or made me think like, ‘Oh, I’ve gotta do this.’ Nothing clicked. Nothing felt good,” she said. “I am way too authentic for my own good. I mean, it’s not good. If I am not impressed, you’ll know. And maybe you shouldn’t know sometimes.”
Lilly said she felt that Whedon didn’t like her attitude on that. “I was okay with that. I was okay with burning bridges,” she said. “I was okay with not having everyone in Hollywood wanna work with me.” “I just always had to do what felt right for me,” she continued. “And honestly I wasn’t into superhero movies and that’s the main reason why, in both of these instances, I just kind of felt like I don’t know what I get out of this.”“I often was very critical of them,” Lilly said. “Like, I was known to mock them and treat them as lower forms of entertainment until Marvel came around.
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