Evangeline Lilly says She Cried after "Being Cornered" into Filming Partial Nude Scene for "Lost"
by Dave Quinn
August 2, 2018


Evangeline Lilly has been open in the past about the “pretty dark time” she experienced while filming "Lost", the fantastical ABC series that brought the British Columbia native to fame. Now, in a new interview, the actress claims she was pushed into filming partially nude scenes for the show.

Speaking to The Lost Boys podcast published Tuesday, the 38-year-old — who played heroine Kate — went into detail about her painful past on set of the popular show.




“In season 3, I’d had a bad experience on set with being basically cornered into doing a scene partially naked, and I felt had no choice in the matter,” Lilly claimed. “And I was mortified and I was trembling when it finished. I was crying my eyes out and I had to go on do a very formidable, very strong scene thereafter.”

“In season 4, another scene came up where Kate was undressing and I fought very hard to have that scene be under my control. And I failed to control it again,” she continued. “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.”




Not only did she never film a nude scene again in "Lost", but the Ant-Man and the Wasp star has also avoided them since.

“I’ve been doing this now for 15 years. I’m a little bit better equipped now to know the ropes to not have uncomfortable positions come up now,” Lilly said. “Because I have had uncomfortable experiences, when I read scripts where it involves nudity, I pass. 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. I’m lucky, I’m in a privileged position because I can be picky. I feel for women who are struggling to come up in the industry and don’t know how to navigate that.”

“I think that things are in the process of changing,” she said. “When it comes to women being vulnerable on set when it comes to their nudity though, I haven’t been in the position to know if that has changed or not.”

http://ew.com/tv/2018/08/02/evangeline-lilly-cried-cornered-partially-nude-scene-lost/

Lost producers "profoundly apologize" to Evangeline Lilly after she revealed nude scene complaints (http://people.com/tv/evangeline-lilly-cornered-into-lost-nude-scenes/)

Lost co-creators J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof, as well as executive producers Carlton Cuse and Jack Bender, issued a joint statement today in response to Lilly's revelation (https://www.tvtattle.com/item/Evangeline-Lilly-I-vowed-never-to-film-any-more-Lost-nudity-after-one-scene-left-me-quot-crying-my-eyes-out-quot-z8SPrj) that she felt "basically cornered into doing a scene partially naked, and I felt had no choice in the matter" -- an experience that left her "crying my eyes out." “Our response to Evie’s comments this morning in the media was to immediately reach out to her to profoundly apologize for the experience she detailed while working on Lost,” the Lost producers said in a joint statement “We have not yet connected with her, but remain deeply and sincerely sorry. No person should ever feel unsafe at work. Period.” Lilly revealed on The Lost Boys podcast (https://soundcloud.com/lostboyspod/evangeline-lilly-interview-lost-wasp) published earlier this week that “in season 3, I’d had a bad experience on set with being basically cornered into doing a scene partially naked, and I felt had no choice in the matter. And I was mortified and I was trembling when it finished. I was crying my eyes out and I had to go on do a very formidable, very strong scene thereafter.” She added that "in Season 4, another scene came up where Kate was undressing and I fought very hard to have that scene be under my control and I failed to control it again. And 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.”