Evangeline Lilly has come to hate being seen as a bikini babe so much that she won’t set foot on a beach. The 29-year-old Canadian actress says her experience as a sexy castaway on hit show Lost and being constantly targeted by photographers near her Hawaii home means she’s now had to give up her love of the sun, sea and surf. “I’ve had to change my whole life,” says Lilly of the unwanted attention she gets. “For the last two years in Hawaii I won’t be caught dead on the beach. I can’t go because I’m tired of seeing myself in a bikini on the cover of a tabloid magazine and being that woman. I’m not that woman. If I was that woman then great I’d go down to the beach every day and would wear the cutest bikini anyone has ever seen. But in order to kind of represent myself in the public eye, I’ve stopped going to the beach.”
Not many people think of Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta as a hotbed for Hollywood talent, but that didn’t stop Evangeline Lilly from rising to the top – and taking an unconventional path along the way. Evangeline grew up all over the world traveling with her Christian missionary family, before settling down in Vancouver to study International Relations at UBC. A chance encounter led to a modeling career, which in turn created a few acting opportunities and in 2004 Evangeline landed the gig of a lifetime, starring as ‘Kate’ on J.J. Abrams epic TV series, “Lost”. Since then there’s been no looking back. Kate has been nominated for a Golden Globe and is now starring opposite John Malkovich in the new film “Afterwards”.
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Evangeline Lilly will appear on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
September 17 on CBC TV
Evangeline Lilly, star of the hit TV series ‘Lost,’ returns home to Canada with not one but two films at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival.
By Karl Rozemeyer
Evangeline Lilly’s starring role in the addictive TV drama Lost has brought many opportunities to her door, but since the series began in 2004, the former model has remained choosy when it comes to movie scripts. However, this year the native Canadian returned to the Great White North for the Toronto International Film Festival with not one but two films.
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TORONTO — Evangeline Lilly has become a bona fide TV star playing a feisty castaway on “Lost” and has been at the Toronto International Film Festival this week talking up her starring role in the brooding new movie “Afterwards.”
The glamorous parts are a far cry from the actress’s most-hated career turn: a one-month stint as a flight attendant for now-defunct Royal Airlines.
“(It) was probably my least favourite job ever, and I’ve done some pretty awful jobs,” recalled Lilly.
“I remember the first time we had to do (the demonstration) where you point to the exit signs and do the gas mask thing. … I got the gas mask caught in my hair. So they continued on with the announcement and I (was) trying to untangle my hair.”
