(Photo: DreamWorks Pictures)Evangeline Lilly was a little-known Canadian actress with barely any credits to her name when she was cast in a lead role in J.J. Abrams' revolutionary TV series "Lost." During the run of the show she also played a small but pivotal part in the Oscar-winning war drama "The Hurt Locker."
Once the series ended, she turned her attention to feature films, starting with the robot boxing spectacle "Real Steel" opposite Hugh Jackman and some real, full-sized mechanical pugilists. Lilly plays Bailey Tallet, who inherited her father's boxing gym where Charlie Kenton (Jackman) trains his robotic combatants. With the family-friendly fight flick now available on Blu-ray and DVD, I got to speak to Ms. Lilly on the phone from her home in Hawaii. She spoke about her process for choosing projects, how acting in a scene with Jackman was like boxing, the challenge of screaming while pregnant, and the differences between working with robots and smoke monsters.
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