Here are some photos of Evangeline Lilly at last night’s London premiere of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. She wore Naeem Khan – a silver, spangled gown structured with some kind of cape/poncho. She had a lot of fun with it, twirling on the red carpet to show off her dress. Incidentally, the reviews are out for Quantumania and they’re not great. It only has 49% at Rotten Tomatoes.
Meanwhile, Evangeline has managed to shrug off any conversation about her anti-vaccine stances and activism, so thank the Marvel machinery for that. But she did get a question about Joss Whedon and his script for Wonder Woman circa 2006:
Evangeline Lilly recalled turning down the lead in Joss Whedon’s never-produced Wonder Woman script. During her appearance on Thursday’s episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Golden Globe nominee, 43, told host Josh Horowitz, “I had no desire [to do it],” adding: “And he could tell.”
The Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania star said, “I was too young to be that polite.”
Many perceived Whedon’s 2006 script as sexist after it leaked online in 2017, when Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman premiered.
“It didn’t appeal, and there was nothing about the meeting that like jazzed me or made me think, ‘Oh, I’ve gotta do this.’ Nothing clicked. Nothing felt good,” Lilly said of her meeting about the 2006 script. “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. And I think there was maybe even a little bit of offense taken.”
However, added Lilly, “I was okay with that. I was okay with burning bridges. I was okay with not having everyone in Hollywood just wanna work with me.”
[From People]
While I hate her anti-vaccine stance, I’m fine with her career stances over the years – after she became a big breakout star on Lost, there were a lot of people trying to make her into a movie star or shape her career into something which didn’t feel authentic to her. She turned down a lot of work in those years and it doesn’t sound like she has many regrets. I didn’t pay attention to the leaked Whedon script, but I have no doubt that it was trash.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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