Evangeline Lilly Discusses Her Role In ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug’


Evangeline Lilly has been talking about her character in the upcoming, The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug.

Lilly is playing a character that wasn’t in the book in the upcoming sequels, who goes by the name of Tauriel. She is a woodland Elf.

Lily stated, “She’s a very, very young elf. She’s only 600 years old, unlike Legolas who’s like, 1,900 years old and Thranduil who’s about 3,000 years old. She doesn’t have quite the wisdom and pose that those two boys do; she’s a little more… gritty. A little more spontaneous, passionate perhaps.”

The Lost actress added, ” To play this character I need to have a certain amount of grace. But I’m also supposed to be an absolutely ruthless, deadly killer.”

The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug is the follow-up to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, which was released in December last year and amassed over $1billion around the world.

The Hobbit: There And Back Again will then conclude the trilogy in December 2014. Jackson was originally planning to adapt JRR Tolkein’s seminal novel to just two movies.

However, Jackson told Entertainment Weekly in December that despite the film’s success, he expected to be snubbed at the Academy Awards, which duly occurred.

Jackson stated, “I think we’ve got great possibilites in the below-the-line categories. Above the line, I don’t think so much. I wish it was a year where we could celebrate Ian McKellen as Supporting Actor, or Martin Freeman – or Andy Serkis, for that matter – as a Supporting Actor. The acting awards seem to elude us, at least for these types of films. I don’t know why.”

But in 2012 he announced that it would be a trilogy instead. Martin Freeman stars as Bilbo Baggins, whilst the likes of Andy Serkis, Cate Blanchett, Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, and Benedict Cumberbatch also appear.

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