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Evangeline Lilly Says She’s Quitting Hollywood for Now: ‘Praise God’


‘Ant-Man’ star and ‘Lost’ alum Evangeline Lilly revealed she’s ‘stepping away’ from the Hollywood spotlight but ‘might return’ one day

“I am terrified to admit this to the rest of the acting world but, ideally, 10 years from now I would like to be a retired actress, and I would like to have a family, and I’d like to be writing, and potentially, maybe, influencing people’s lives in more humanitarian ways.” Jesse Grant/Getty Images for DisneyAfter making appearances on several TV shows, Lilly landed her breakthrough role as Kate Austen on the sci-fi series Lost. She later starred alongside Hugh Jackman in 2011’s Real Steel before portraying Hope van Dyne in Ant-Man and reprising her role in several other Marvel Cinematic Universe films.

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