Evangeline Lilly Talks Turning Down Superhero Roles from Hugh Jackman & Joss Whedon, Explains What Changed with 'Ant-Man'

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Evangeline Lilly might be saving the day as The Wasp in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, she could have suited up as a hero much earlier.

The 43-year-old Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania actress revealed that both Hugh Jackman and Joss Whedon scouted her for roles in hero-focused action flicks.

She explained why she turned them down and how the interactions went during a recent podcast appearance. She also opened up about how the MCU convinced her to join the franchise. Read more about Evangeline Lilly’s superhero history… While on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Evangeline revealed that she was recruited for both X-Men and Wonder Woman projects. Hugh recruited her for the former while they were working on Real Steel together. “He was like, ‘Hey, so, the X-Men guys are asking me if I would approach you because they know that you won’t talk to anybody and won’t do anything and you’re not reading scripts and no one can reach you,” she recalled. “So they knew I was working with you and were interested to know if it would ever interest you to do an X-Men thing.’” “I was like, ‘No.

It doesn’t interest me. I’m not interested,’” she admitted. “I was like, ‘I feel like such a d-ck because I’m talking to an X-Men!