‘Lost’ star Lilly cried over partial nudity
“Lost” star Evangeline Lilly said she was once “cornered” into doing a partially nude scene on the popular ABC drama — and that the experience was so traumatizing, it left her in tears.
Lilly, who played Kate on the critically acclaimed series, said the first time she was all but forced to act naked against her will was in Season 3.
“I had a bad experience on set with being basically cornered into doing a scene partially naked, and I felt I had no choice in the matter,” she told the Lost Boys podcast. “And I was mortified, and I was trembling and I was, when it finished, I was crying my eyes out.”
But that wasn’t all — Lilly said that when a Season 4 episode called for Kate to undress again, she tried to fight it, to no avail.
“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 said. “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.”
ABC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The actress has hinted that she struggled during the show’s filming, admitting to People in July that she went through a “pretty dark time” coming to terms with the stardom from the popularity of “Lost.”