Evangeline Lilly on Ant-Man: Marvel ‘Shocked The Pants Off Me’

'Lost’ alum and ‘The Hobbit’ star Evangeline Lilly has been talking about her experience filming Marvel’s other 2015 summer blockbuster ‘Ant-Man’.

In an interview with Comic Vine Lilly said that working with Marvel Studios had been a pleasant surprise.

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“Honestly, it’s easy for me to talk about it,” she said. “I’ve had such a wonderful experience. Marvel Studios has shocked the pants off me.

“I really expected to be walking into a great big machine that would be so well oiled and anybody new with new ideas or new contributions would just be a pain in the butt. Marvel could not have been more opposite to those expectations.

“They’ve been collaborative in a way that makes me feel like - and I know you’re going to say this is bullcrap but it’s totally true - in a way that makes me feel like I was working on a little indie project. I mean, it was that intimate and that collaborative. I just had a wonderful experience.”

Lilly plays Hope Van Dyne – who may well become super-heroine The Wasp – opposite Michael Douglas as on-screen father and original Ant-Man Hank Pym, and Paul Rudd as the new, younger Ant-Man Scott Lang.

The trio will be going up against Corey Stoll as Darren Cross, aka insectoid super-villain Yellowjacket.

Asked when we’d hear more about ‘Ant-Man’ Lily added that he could expect “to get some news about it very soon.”

‘Ant-Man’ will be released on 17 July 2015.

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Picture credits: Marvel Studios / ABC