Ant-Man 3 Star Explains How The #MeToo Movement Empowered Her On Set
Evangeline Lilly, who plays Hope van Dyne/the Wasp in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has given details on how the #MeToo movement helped her feel empowered on the set of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The upcoming film will be the third in Marvel Studios' Ant-Man trilogy, following 2015's Ant-Man and 2018's Ant-Man and the Wasp. The threequel will be directed by Peyton Reed, who directed the first two movies.
Lilly's character Hope van Dyne started out in the 2015 film as an ally to Paul Rudd's titular Scott Lang/Ant-Man. The daughter of Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), she helped Lang defeat her father's former protégé Darren Cross/Yellowjacket (Corey Stoll). The movie's mid-credit scene showed Hank Pym passing down her mother's Wasp suit to her, which she fully took advantage of in the 2018 sequel. Van Dyne was one of the many unlucky victims of Thanos's snap, as shown in the movie's mid-credits scene, and she was later brought back in 2019's Avengers: Endgame. Her next appearance will be in Quantumania.
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In an interview with Forbidden Planet TV (via The Direct), Lilly spoke about her personal growth throughout her time playing this character and how it impacted her during the production of the new film. She felt that she was able to voice more of her opinions of what she wanted from both the movie's narrative and her role this time around. She partly gives credit to the #MeToo movement, as well as the Time's Up movement. Read her full quote below:
What’s great is what I can talk about is sort of the theme that we started on, which is my own personal growth. On that film, that was, I think, the first time where I really… probably because of some of the healing that’s
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