Evangeline Lilly owes her fame to Lost, though her time as Kate Austen on the hit drama nearly drove her from acting for good.
, Lilly described “being basically cornered into” doing the scene and felt like she “had no choice in the matter.” After they wrapped that scene, Lilly says she was “mortified and I was trembling. I was crying my eyes out,” but she still had to go on to shoot as “very formidable, very strong scene thereafter.”
In season four, there came another scene that called for Kate’s character to undress. “I fought very hard to have that scene be under my control. And I failed to control it again,” Lilly recalled. That was the breaking point for theactress. “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.”ended after six seasons, and once it was over, Evangeline Lilly did some soul searching.
The bad experience has kept Lilly from accepting any more roles where nudity is expected. “Because I have had uncomfortable experiences, when I read scripts where it involves nudity, I pass,” she said. “And it’s not because I think there’s anything wrong with doing nudity. It’s because I don’t trust that I can be comfortable and safe.” Hopefully, up-and-coming talent can look to Lilly as an example if they ever go through a similar experience.
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