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Evangeline Lilly Says She Was "Cornered" Into Filming a Partially Nude Scene for 'Lost'

Evangeline Lilly is opening up about her time starring on Lost, which aired for six seasons from 2004 to 2010 on ABC. According to the actress — who played heroine Kate Austen on the hit mystery-drama series — she was "cornered" into filming a partially nude scene.

"In season three, 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," she recalled in an interview with The Lost Boys podcast. "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."

Lilly then said that she was made to feel similarly uncomfortable on the set of season four. "In season four, 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. "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."

Since then, the Ant-Man and the Wasp star says she has done her best to avoid nude scenes altogether. "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," she explained. "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."

hollywoodreporter.com/news/evangeline-lilly-was-cornered-filming-partially-nude-scene-lost-1131721

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