#Ant Man Series Star Evangeline Lilly Says She Finally Understands Her Character

Covid has hit the film industry hard enough as it is, but “Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania” also ran into some trouble last month when an outbreak of a different virus, the norovirus, or winter vomiting bug, affected it and other productions at Pinewood Studios in England. That hasn’t derailed the film’s principal photography, however. Lilly also said that the movie’s script gave her a “eureka moment,” enabling her to finally understand the character of Hope. She’s explained:

“We’re just a little over halfway through. And I will say that after I read the script of the film, I did have a kind of eureka moment; I said to Peyton [Reed], ‘Oh my God, I think I finally get her.’ (Laughs.) Three or four films in, I thought, ‘I think I get it now.’ So I’m hoping that when we come to wrap and when I see the movie, I’m going to know the difference. But I don’t think anyone else will. I think I’m a good bluffer. That’s what I do for a living. But I know the difference and I’m hopeful that in this one, I’ll feel like I can watch it and go, ‘Yeah, you had a better handle on her in this one than you ever have before.’ That’s my goal, anyway. That’s my hope.”

Lilly’s experience with Marvel and her hope for Hope just goes to show that even the most aspirational MCU heroes (or the actors playing them) sometimes have to fake it until they make it. There’s a lesson in there somewhere.

“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” flies into theaters on February 17, 2023.