THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT
BUZZ is building about Evangeline Lilly’s return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania — her fourth film as winged crime-fighter Hope van Dyne. The Lost alum, 43, says the superhero flick — which also features Paul Rudd — allowed her to feel “the most heard, the most respected and the most collaborative” in her entire Hollywood career. Here are ten things you don’t know about the green-eyed beauty. 1
She was born in Alberta, Canada, and went to French immersion school from kindergarten to seventh grade.
2
She lost a front tooth at 21 during a drunken dancing accident.
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To pay her college tuition, she worked as a waitress, did oil changes on big rig trucks and was a flight attendant for Royal Airlines.
4
She had her sights set on a career as a Christian missionary when she was approached by a scout from a modeling agency.
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She beat out 75 other actresses to win the role of Kate Austen in ABC’s Lost — but says she didn’t want the part at first because the show seemed like “a dramatic Gilligan’s Island.” 6
Former Lost castmate — and ex-boyfriend — Dominic Monaghan calls her a “potty mouth.”
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In 2006, a fire destroyed her Hawaiian home and all of its contents. But she says the blaze was “almost liberating” and admits she was in “no hurry” to clutter up her life again.
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She almost never goes a day without eating bread.
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Her outdoor hobbies include kayaking and rock climbing.
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She studied MMAstyle fighting and the martial art Muay Thai to prepare for 2015’s Ant-Man.