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‘Lost’ Actress Shocks Fans With Jaw-Dropping Announcement On Her Career
Evangeline Lilly, best known for her recurring role on the hit series “Lost,” just let her fans know that her time in Hollywood is coming to an end.
Lilly, who garnered headlines most recently for her anti-vaccine mandate activism, posted a circa-2006 clip of her time on the show as she announced her retirement from acting. “Thank you @lost_theothers for digging up this (nearly twenty-year-old) footage of me speaking out my dreams under (what looks like) a full moon 🌝,” she wrote, according to the Daily Caller. “I am so filled with joy and contentment today as I live out my vision. Praise God, I feel so grateful for my blessings. Stepping away from what seems like the obvious choice (wealth and fame) can feel scary at times, but stepping into your dharma replaces the fear with fulfillment. I might return to Hollywood one day, but, for now, this is where I belong. A new season has arrived, and I AM READY…and I AM HAPPY. 🕊️💪🏽😊”
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In the clip, the 44-year-old revealed early on how she hoped to one day retire from her career with enough time to put her full attention toward some of her humanitarian causes. “I am terrified to admit this to the rest of the acting world, but ideally, 10 years from now I’d like to be a retired actress,” she was recorded saying. “I would like to have a family and I’d like to be writing and potentially influencing people’s lives in a more humanitarian way.”
Since playing the character Kate Austin on “Lost,” Lilly has ventured far beyond the comforts of the glitterati, laying the foundation for charitable causes around the world. She has traveled as far as Rwanda and the Philippines to work with underage girls. Her campaign, “Just Yell Fire,” teaches lessons for young women defending themselves against rapists, according to Look to the Stars.
Lilly’s anti-vaccine mandate efforts came during filming for the 2023 Marvel movie ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.’ Speaking with Esquire, the actress said she debated about posting her attendance at a 2022 rally “about 600 times,” ultimately deciding to do so to let Americans know they “had a right to say no.”
“I know the beast that I’m attacking,” she recalled thinking while discussing how lonely she felt in Hollywood. “I know that I have a little pebble and there’s this f****** Goliath giant. If I shoot this pebble, it’s going to wake the giant.” Lilly, who is pro-choice, said her feelings over bodily autonomy extended to vaccines: “[I was] pro-choice before COVID and I am still pro-choice today.”
“I believe nobody should ever be forced to inject their body with anything, against their will, under threat of violent attack, arrest or detention without trial, loss of employment, homelessness, starvation, loss of education, alienation from loved ones, ex-communication from society … under any threat whatsoever,” she wrote at the time. “This is not the way. This is not safe. This is not healthy. This is not love. I understand the world is in fear, but I don’t believe that answering fear with force will fix our problems.”
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