Evangeline Lilly Admits She Rejected ‘X-Men’ & ‘Wonder Woman’ Offers: Watch

Ant-Man and the Wasp star Evangeline Lilly, 43, did not clasp backmost erstwhile she spoke with Josh Horowitz on his Happy Sad Confused podcast connected Thursday. Not lone did the blonde beauty stock that she rejected Hugh Jackman‘s connection for a relation successful the X-Men franchise, but she besides did the aforesaid erstwhile it came to Joss Whedon‘s Wonder Woman offer. “Hugh Jackman was like, ‘Hey, so, the X-Men guys are asking maine if I would attack you due to the fact that they cognize that you won’t speech to anybody,” she jokingly said. “They knew I was moving with you and were funny to cognize if it would ever involvement you to bash an X-Men thing.” In response, Evangeline admitted, “I was like, ‘No. It doesn’t involvement me. I’m not interested.'”

Despite telling the 54-year-old histrion that his palmy franchise didn’t entreaty to her, Evangeline noted however she inactive felt atrocious astir it. “I was like, ‘I consciousness similar specified a d*** due to the fact that I’m talking to an X-Men! The X-Men! And I’m telling him, ‘No that doesn’t appeal. Like, what?!’ I felt truthful rude!”, the 43-year-old told Josh. Later, the Lost alum said that “superhero movies” simply “don’t appeal” to her.

“It didn’t entreaty and determination was thing astir the gathering that like, jazzed maine oregon made maine deliberation like, ‘Oh, I’ve gotta bash this.’ Nothing clicked. Nothing felt good,” the mom-of-two said. “I americium mode excessively authentic for my ain good. I mean, it’s not good. If I americium not impressed, you’ll know. And possibly you shouldn’t cognize sometimes.” Evangeline besides revealed that she didn’t deliberation she would summation overmuch from doing either project. “I conscionable ever had to bash what felt close for me,” she explained. “And honestly I wasn’t into superhero movies and that’s the main crushed why, successful some of these instances, I conscionable benignant of felt similar I don’t cognize what I get retired of this.”

Hugh Jackman & Evangeline Lilly during a erstwhile reddish carpet event. (Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock)

Although the Canada autochthonal was not a large instrumentality of superhero movies prior, erstwhile she watched Marvel movies she changed her mind. “And erstwhile I did [watch Marvel movies] I was like, ‘oh they’re doing thing precise antithetic and precise cool'”, the starlet continued. Finally, successful 2015 Evangeline landed the relation of Hope Pym in Peyton Reed‘s Ant-Man alongside Paul Rudd, 53. Although she was hesitant to instrumentality connected the project, erstwhile Peyton joined it turned things astir for her. “It was the adjacent iteration of the script,” she said.

“For me, everything lives and breathes and the script. Which is hard successful a Marvel movie due to the fact that it’s changing the full mode through,” she went on. Evangeline besides gave recognition wherever it’s owed and praised Marvel Studios for creating an “overarching feeling” truthful that audiences cognize they are “in the aforesaid universe.” By the end, the histrion said she was “convinced” to articulation the Marvel task and it’s follow-up movie, Avengers: Endgame, in 2019. The next chapter successful the Ant-Man franchise is Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which is acceptable to deed theaters connected Feb. 17. Evangeline and Paul volition reprise their roles, with Blockers’ Kathryn Newton, 26, and Devotion star Jonathan Majors, 33, joining.

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