Q: How are you feeling as this comes to an end?
Evangeline Lilly: As we were walking out onto the stage and this montage was playing, I was whispering to my cast members, "I am going to cry like a baby when this show ends." It's become so nostalgic for us to look back over six years and have grown up together and grown up in front of all of you together. It's been so intense that for it to come to an end is going to be life-changing.
Q: Are you still planning to take time off after Lost or are you starting to think about what to do next?
Evangeline Lilly: I think what people don't realize in the industry is just how intense it is to film this show. I don't think we've had one guest actor come to our set yet who hasn't spent a day in the jungle and looked around afterwards and gone, "How do you guys do this every day?" Because it's exhausting. So I think, for a lot of us actors, when this show ends, we're all just going to hibernate for at least a small portion of time to recoup because we're exhausted.
Q: What are your favorite memories from the series?
Evangeline Lilly: Sangria Thursdays. It's a Season 6 tradition. It's the last season. It's like the year you get out of school and everything kind of goes a bit haywire in class. I think, for me, the most memorable moment on the show happened in the first season, and it was the episode where Claire gave birth and Boone died. I'll never forget watching that episode, because, to me, it just sort of culminated everything that we were talking about on the show and everything that the show represented in these two very simple, very natural and very sort of heroic moments on the show. I don't often cry watching my own show because I've read the script and we've filmed everything and we know the story inside and out. But I watched that episode and I cried, and I just remember thinking this is something that I'm proud to be a part of.
Q: What have been your biggest “Holy crap” moments when you found things revealed in your scripts?
Evangeline Lilly: I think one of the best things about this show as an actor is you constantly get to try on a new character even though you're playing the same character. And we're not bored yet, and we're in Season 6. That's unheard of for television actors.
Q: Are you going to miss Hawaii?
Evangeline Lilly: I think that on a certain level, living in paradise has been, also, a little bit of a prison for us because we don't have a lot of freedom. It's not like working in Los Angeles where you can go out to Las Vegas for the weekend and take off and get away. When we're on the island, we're on the island, and we're stuck and we can't go anywhere. So I think there's this innate sense of freedom that's coming along with it. But to sort of juxtapose feeling that's going to come when we actually are faced with the reality of the show being over is that the show gives us an immense amount of freedom that possibly it's harder to see when you're actually in it. I think we're aware that how we feel right now anticipating the end is that we have this beautiful, big new horizon in front of us, or how I feel, but potentially the reality of that horizon isn't quite as romantic and sexy as it looks from this position. That's how I feel.
