​There are so many Marvel characters that we couldn't imagine any other way, but one in particular, actually thought the movie was a joke.





At Fan Expo Boston over the weekend, Evangeline Lilly revealed that she laughed when first called about Ant-Man. “I was just finishing up on my press tour for The Hobbit when my manager called me and said, ‘I got a call from Marvel, and they’re wondering if you might want to meet and see if this new franchise, Ant-Man, might be appealing to you.’ And I laughed.”

​Evangeline, famous for her role as Kate Austen in the hit series Lost, had just finished two films from the Lord of the Rings prequel series, and was ​considering retiring from ​acting.





“I said, ‘Have they run out of superheroes and now they’re making them up?’ Because I never heard of Ant-Man, I genuinely thought it was a joke. And then he was like, ‘No, no, no, he’s one of the original Avengers, this is the real thing.’ I was like, ‘Well, the truth is, I was just a super-elf. I don’t really need to be a superhero.’ And he goes, ‘Hang on, hear me out, Ant-Man will be played by Mr. Paul Rudd and it will be directed by the Edgar Wright.’”

“And I was like, ‘Hold the phone! Who is making this movie, this sounds awesome! And why is a superhero gonna be Paul Rudd and why is Edgar Wright directing it, I love this, what is happening in my life!’ I said okay, I have to do some homework, I need to watch a Marvel movie and find out what these cool dudes are up to, ‘cause they sound really cool. So then I spent a weekend—I think I watched six ​Marvel movies in one weekend. I was like, ‘I’m in! I don’t know how I missed all of this, but this is so cool! Yes, I want to do this,'" she conclude





In the end, ​Peyton Reed came on as director, instead of Edgar Wright, but the film was so successful that it received a sequel. And Evangeline got to become a superhero too.