Evangeline Lilly Tried To Quit Acting, But Acting Would Not Quit Her — buzzfeed.com

Evangeline Lilly at the London premiere of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies on Dec. 1, 2014 Getty Images Dave J Hogan LOS ANGELES — “I really hated working as an actress.” This sharp confession casually spills out of Evangeline Lilly within the first two minutes of conversation with her. Seated in the corner of a sunny hotel cafe in Hollywood in late November, Lilly is at the tail end of a promotional tour for The Squickerwonkers, her first children’s book in what Lilly dearly hopes will be a long and satisfying writing career. Storytelling seems to be her forte, actually, because all it takes is a question about her book’s dedication — in which she thanks her mother for praising The Squickerwonkers when she first wrote it as a poem at 14 — for Lilly to launch into a lengthy narrative about realizing while working on the sensationally popular TV series Lost that she would be perfectly happy if she never acted again.

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