From the local newspaper (NZ Herald) ...
A quick word ...
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with Evangeline Lilly, who plays Kate on Lost
NZ Herald: Why does everyone keep saying "only 48 more
episodes" as though it's no big deal?
E. Lilly: There was a time, midway through season three,
where I thought,"what if this goes on, 10, 12, 15
seasons? Can I do that? I don't know. That would be
really, really stifling". And then this announcement
came up and it was like, "Aaah. Forty-eight I can do".
Of course there's always the risk that I'll be killed
off the show. That's always looming over my head.
NZ Herald: Surely it's good to have security in this
business?
E. Lilly: Yeah, but I was starting to get what I call
'character fever'. God help you if you have to play her
one more moment. Then the writers rescued me from that
with the final scene of season three. It inspired me, it
gave me so much more motivation, more new life, more
thoughts about her, where she's going to go. The idea of
playing a world after the island is exactly the fresh
breeze that I needed to fill the sails and keep going.
NZ Herald: What else can you tell us about season four?
E. Lilly: Nothing, totally nothing. I can't control who
she'll speak to, where she's going, what she'll do, but
I can control how she'll behave in those scenarios.
NZ Herald: You seem like a free spirit. It can't have
been easy signing those long-term contracts.
E. Lilly: I think it's a danger for someone who likes
change. You can miss out on a lot of things in life
because you're too busy moving on to the next thing.
This show has forced me to stay still. It's forced me
to stay in the same place. It's forced me to be with
the same people and do the same job for three years,
and will do for another three years. That has been a
huge gift because I don't do that on my own. On my own
I'm up and gone. Every six weeks.
NZ Herald: How will you feel being back on set without
Charlie? (played by her boyfriend Dominic Monaghan,
killed off at the end of the last season.)
E. Lilly: It's always difficult when a cast member
goes. For a long time it was like the ****fting of the
continents where you're trying to mesh together again
to fill that gap. So it's awkward. It doesn't happen
naturally. We've been a constant for three years. To
pull out another piece of the puzzle, it's even more
giant. I think the beginning of season four will be
hard. It will be awkward and sad, but we'll find our
way again and find our groove and the show will go on.
NZ Herald: Your first film, Afterwards (out later this
year) is about mortality. So is Lost in a way.
E. Lilly: That will hopefully be a theme throughout my
career. I seek stories that have a message, that
challenge people. I don't really have an interest in
just entertaining people. I want to tell stories that
will affect people's lives.
NZ Herald: That's a bit scary considering your house
burnt down (in 2006).
E. Lilly: When I got the phone call saying, "your
house is ash", in that moment, I'd never felt more
free. It was really beautiful. For some reason,
immediately I felt elated. I just think fire is so
pure and clean and it leaves only elements, only the
raw base of the earth. There's something beautiful in
fire.
NZ Herald: You realise you're sending a dangerous
message here.
E. Lilly: Arson! All over the country! No really, it's
a beautiful experience. You should try it.
Errr... O...kay. Sounds like another of the very strange people that
over-flow in Hollyweird. :-\
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