Aw, poor Evangeline Lilly, becoming beautiful overnight and having to fight off the attentions of all the boys. I'm surprised she didn't just kill herself right there and then rather than be subjected to all those compliments and all that positive attention.

[Edited on Apr 17, 2006 by Pauline]

Here's some more choice quotes.

From the article: "She can swear like a sailor and dress provocatively, but that doesn't reflect her beliefs. She's a walking oxymoron." - Lost Executive Producer

Or rather, what he's saying, is that she's a fucking hipocrite. Okay, what else...

From the article: ' "If you ask me a question about love, relationships, or anything of that sort, the interview will be over. Over!" she says, smiling, but there's a steeliness behind the declaration.'

See that comment about the 'steeliness'? That's journo-speak for 'she was deadly serious'. She definately comes off as very bitchy, there.

From the article: 'Neither Lilly nor Monaghan talk about their relationship, and her coworkers seem to have gotten the memo: "I don't need to face the wrath of Evie," chuckles Garcia.'

Again, the writer is trying their hardest to make it seem on a superficial level that it's a big happy family, with all the 'chuckles' and 'smiling', but the words being said show a much darker side to this harridan.

From the article: 'You have to sacrifice something to get something. For me, fame is that sacrifice, because I never wanted it, and I still don't. Its something I have to live with."

Oh my. All that adoration and fanmail and attention must be hard to live with. It's like she hates her job, hates her success, hates herself, but doesn't mind taking revealing pictures of herself...she's the perfect Suicide Girl!

From the article: '"You know whose career is fascinating to me?" she asks, standing on a Kailua beach. "Scarlett Johansson's. She's intensely successful in the way I'd like to be if I do film.'

Hello! She'd like to be 'intensely successful' now? That was a rapid change of heart.

All this has shown to me that yeah, she's a walking oxymoron. Yeah, you gotta remove the 'oxy' part, though.

who is that?

Not all male attention is positive, especially when they're the kind of males who'll lie about having had sex with you. I'm surprised you can't relate, but maybe you're just lucky enough to have avoided creeps and assholes for most of your life.

And in your post below, you're treating the disparity between 16 year old Evangeline and adult Evangeline as proof that she's a hypocrite. People are allowed to change over the span of several years, aren't they? I'll be super-pissed if I'm 29 year old me is the same as 19 year old me. with the same hang-ups and insecurities.

And people have different ideas of success, especially in a field like acting. Some people might see Brad PItt as a success while others might see James Dean as a success. Ostensibly, Evangeline doesn't see fame as success.

Everything else you said is kinda supposition.

What the fuck? She's "very bitchy" because she prefers to keep her private life private?

haha thats what I was thinking...gotta be tough being so damn pretty, oh the mean jokes, mean comments....ugh I'd hate to be her

I'm glad to see at least one other person gets it. Believe what you want, unless you have had that kind of attention as insecure teenager you really don't know how hard it is.

You're amazing Al! This is why we love you.

So Pauline, are you saying that because you're an attractive woman who has taken revealing pictures of yourself it's ok for me to call you a slut or make lewd comments about you? You really seem hell bent on proving that the way this person felt when she was younger was just totally wrong. Why?

You're right, I don't know how hard it is being one of the beautiful people having to deal with the negative attention... all I know is how hard it is to get beat up and teased every day because I didn't look like an Ambercrombie model. This is why there are two completely different sides to this argument which will probably never be resolved. Unless you've lived in the shoes of the opposite side, there's no real way to sympathize. Which is funny to me because it's all the same argument... "I had a hard time because of my looks".

everyone is persecuted at one time or another in their lives..it sucks that men are horny beasts but wishing yourself ugly is kinda silly..be like Al , grow some ass-kicking ability and make them grovel like dogs....don't whine

I've lived both sides. They both have their hard parts. I was an ugly, awkward child who was teased about everything from my knobby knees to my big ears that stuck out. Then I suddenly found myself dealing not only with unwanted attention from grown men, but also the jealousy and hatred of girls who had been my friends. Neither was easy.

It's a lot easier to do that as an adult. The story was talking about when she was a teenager. I don't think she was the only teenager who felt like that. And I think just maybe it could actually be helpful to other teenage girls who felt that way to know that other people feel the same way and get past it.

I don't care how you try to rationalise it, being good-looking is better than being ugly. You get a better choice of a boyfriend for one.