Evangeline Lilly Praises Ant-Man 3 Script and Why She Loved WandaVision and Loki
215With Aharon Keshales’ South of Heaven now playing in select theaters and available On-Demand and Digital, I recently caught up with Evangeline Lilly to talk about being part of the indie crime thriller where she stars opposite Jason Sudeikis. While I’ll have the full conversation online this weekend, today I wanted to share what she had to say about Marvel.
If you didn’t know, director Peyton Reed is currently filming the next Ant-Man sequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, in London and the cast made up of Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer will be back to reprise their roles of Scott Lang, Hope Van Dyne, and Janet Van Dyne, respectively. Joining them is Jonathan Majors as Marvel villain Kang the Conqueror in the threequel.
In a bit of surprising news, Kevin Feige revealed Kathryn Newton (Big Little Lies, Freaky) would play Cassie Lang, Scott's daughter. Why this is a bit of interesting casting news is MCU fans have already met Cassie as a young girl (Abby Ryder Fortson) in Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp, and as a grown-up (Emma Furhmann) in Endgame. Cassie was introduced as an adult when Scott (Rudd) emerged from the Quantum Realm years after Thanos snapped the Infinity Gauntlet in Avengers: Infinity War, making for an emotional reunion early in the movie. It's still unclear how the recasting will be explained in Quantumania but I’m sure it will make sense by the time the film ends.
Anyway, while Evangeline Lilly was very careful about saying anything about the Ant-Man 3 plot, she did praise screenwriter Jeff Loveness’ (Rick and Morty) script saying:
“I think he is phenomenal. I think he's one of the best writers we've ever had. I think he's got an incredible mastery of voice. So, on the page, I could hear all the characters, and I knew that he'd really kind of harnessed each person's unique personality. I just think that it's going to be really special. I actually think it has the chance to be the best one we've done yet.”
In addition, even though she revealed she hasn’t been able to keep up with everything Marvel has been releasing which includes her episode of What If…?, she did talk about her love of WandaVision and Loki. Regarding WandaVision, Lilly said:
“I think WandaVision was phenomenal, and I think it was probably the best they've ever represented a female character. It was so incredible to see her be so complicated and so flawed and yet so redeemable and so lovable, the way we have typically historically treated our male characters. I think it was an epic female protagonist story.”
With Loki, the thing she couldn’t believe was that Marvel introduced chaos theory.
“The science geek in me loves that element of how smart they are and how they tackle such enormous topics that most kind of fluff popcorn movies are not going to tackle. They tackled chaos theory. That's really brave and really bold and really cool.”
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