Antman and The Wasp star Evangeline Lilly admits it’s hard for her to look back on the early seasons of Lost since she’s so critical of her performance.
Lilly shared her thoughts on her acting during her appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast (via IndieWire).
“We would have Lost parties where the cast would get together to watch the show, and when it would be a Kate-centric episode, I would want to curl in a hole and die because I knew I was bad,” she said. “And I still to this day will stand by the fact that I can watch the first couple seasons and I cringe because I’m not very good.”
The Lost series premiered on ABC in 2004 and lasted for six seasons.
The drama series was created by Jeffrey Lieber, JJ Abrams, and Damon Lindelof. Lilly played the role of Kate Austen in the series. She was involved in an on-again-off-again love triangle between the two main characters, Jack and Sawyer, played by Matthew Fox and Josh Holloway, respectively. The actor talked about when she finally started feeling comfortable in her television role.
Lilly continued, “I do feel like Season 3 was a turning point, where I went from ‘panicked, figure it out, just shoot from the hip, feel it, go with my gut,’ to ‘I hate this, I don’t want to do this, get me out of here,’ to ‘oh, I guess if I’m here, I’m stuck, and I’m going to stay, I should figure it out. And that was in Season 3, and I started to actually try to learn my craft.”
Lilly is currently starring as Hope van Dyne, the Wasp, in Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania opposite Paul Rudd.
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