Evangeline Lilly Reveals She Was 'cornered Into Doing a Scene Partially Naked' on 'Lost'

Evangeline Lilly detailed uncomfortable experiences on the Lost set in a new interview on The LOST Boys podcast Tuesday.

"In Season 3, I'd 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. I was mortified and I was trembling, and when it finished, I was crying my eyes out," the actress, who played Kate, told one of the podcast's hosts, Jacob Stolworthy.

"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 continued. "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."

Those instances in Seasons 3 and 4 weren't the only bad experiences she had on the set of Lost. The actress revealed she had "open wounds, pus-y and oozing" that were the fault of a "misogynistic" stunt coordinator, Deadline reported in May. Lilly hadn't wanted a stuntwoman to take her place, and she kept scratching her arms on tree bark because the coordinator refused to let her cover her arms with moleskin. "I felt it was him saying, 'I'm going to put you in your place for standing up to me,'" she said, according to the publication.

Lilly's experiences on the Lost set affected the direction her career took, she said. "Because I have had uncomfortable experiences, when I read scripts where it involves nudity, I pass," she said on the podcast. "I don't trust that I can be comfortable and safe." One aspect of playing Hope Van Dyne/Wasp in Ant-Man and the Wasp she liked was her outfit. "She is covered from head to toe from beginning to end, and that suit made me feel very safe," she explained.

Lilly was also candid about Kate. "At the beginning, she was kind of cool and then as the show went on, I felt like she became more and more predictable and obnoxious," she told The LOST Boys. "Because I felt my character went from being autonomous, really having her own story and her own journey and her own agendas to chasing two men around the island. And that irritated the s*** out of me and I did throw scripts across rooms when I would read them."

While she "wanted her to be better," she noted the importance in Kate being flawed. "If you don't have flaws in the women onscreen, then what you're telling the world is women have to be perfect if they're going to be loveable," she said. "If you have flawed women onscreen who are also icons of femininity, are also beloved, then it gives us all permission to be flawed."