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"  Watch a Supermodel Message Just forYou &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; Originally published in the March 2006 issue  You&amp;#039;ll be forgiven if you were unfamiliar with Evangeline Lilly before her role on Lost, ABC&amp;#039;s highly addictive adventure-mystery series set on the least tranquil island in the South Pacific. It&amp;#039;s the first speaking part for Lilly, twenty-six, a former Sunday-school teacher and oil-change technician from Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, who paid for college by doing background work on local film shoots like White Chicks. Now she&amp;#039;s on the shortlist for major movie roles, including one in the long-rumored Wonder Woman movie. We tracked down Lilly in L.A., where she invited us up to her hotel room.  ESQ: You nabbed Lost after only a month of auditioning for roles. How much does every struggling actress hate your guts?  EL: I feel guilty even talking about it. Once I sat beside a woman whose r\u00E9sum\u00E9 was pages long, and when I told her how long I&amp;#039;d been auditioning, you could see daggers coming out of her eyes.  ESQ: Your character has a shady past. What is it about strong, mysterious women that men go for? EL: I think men don&amp;#039;t know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they&amp;#039;re getting makes it a little easier on them. ESQ: What does a guy get when he gets you? EL: I think I&amp;#039;m not always what I seem. Most people, when they get to know me, say, &amp;quot;You know, when I first met you...&amp;quot; People initially think I&amp;#039;m a snob because I&amp;#039;m intensely private. ESQ: Lost thrives on the question of faith versus science. Which side are you on? EL: I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance. ESQ: The show isn&amp;#039;t afraid to kill off major characters. Worried you might be next? EL: I feel like where they&amp;#039;ve taken the story, I don&amp;#039;t think they&amp;#039;re finished with Kate yet. ESQ: You realize you just painted a target on your forehead. EL: I know! No one&amp;#039;s above it. Got that? Nobody. [Laughs.] ESQ: So I&amp;#039;m told that the series will end with a scientist informing the survivors that they&amp;#039;re part of a government experiment. EL: I don&amp;#039;t think so. ESQ: Wait, you&amp;#039;re saying the Internet is wrong? EL: I think that would be so unfair to our viewers. They&amp;#039;ve invested in this idea, and to cop out and make it something as stupid and simple as we&amp;#039;re all dead in purgatory or something, I think I&amp;#039;d get up and kick a hole through my television I&amp;#039;d be so pissed off. ESQ: Admit it, the writers have no idea where this thing is going. EL: They do! I remember when we were filming the pilot, [cocreator] J.J. Abrams was talking about the idea of a hatch. They told us they had roughly mapped out the first six seasons. ESQ: Why do you think your character was the first to discover the shower in the hatch? EL: [Laughs.] Every time I get a script, I go, &amp;quot;All right, where&amp;#039;s the Kate nudie scene?&amp;quot; I get so sick of the gratuitous nature of it. ESQ: Just for the record, we don&amp;#039;t. EL: Well, I do! But it could be worse. They haven&amp;#039;t made me go skinny-dipping or have sex with six men on the island. ESQ: Will we get to see you as Wonder Woman? EL: I&amp;#039;ve never even spoken to anyone on the project. People have asked if I had one role I wanted to play, and I threw out Wonder Woman because she was my favorite superhero growing up. ESQ: You probably had the Underoos, right? EL: I still have the little shorty shorts. ESQ: And you still dress up and pose in front of the mirror? EL: Yeah, with my lasso. No, I&amp;#039;d love to play Wonder Woman because it&amp;#039;s a kick-ass role. But the dilemma is whether I want to be part of something that big and commercial. ESQ: You are aware that Lost is a top-ten show? EL: True, but right now I can still go grocery shopping and not get mobbed. But when I was in South Africa this summer, I had people asking for autographs, and that scared me. ESQ: Do you have a particular Valentine&amp;#039;s Day that stands out? EL: My valentine is always my dad. ESQ: Hmm, a little creepy, no? EL: A little creepy, but ever since I can remember, he would come home with a box of chocolates, and the card would always say, TO MY LITTLE VALENTINE. When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine&amp;#039;s Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook. ESQ: What&amp;#039;s a guy got to do to impress you? EL: He has to be completely unaffected by my presence. If he wants to talk to me, talk to me; if he doesn&amp;#039;t, don&amp;#039;t. ESQ: So you&amp;#039;re saying you need your space. EL: I&amp;#039;ve had boyfriends complain, &amp;quot;Wait, you don&amp;#039;t want to see me?&amp;quot; No, I don&amp;#039;t. I just want to hang out by myself. So screw off. Click her for galleries and videos of dozens more Women We Love &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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