Evangeline Lilly: 'I'm like a man'

Evangeline Lilly has revealed that she has an "unfortunate amount of confidence".

The actress, famous for her role as Kate Austin in Lost, has said that she is "like a man" when it comes to auditioning.

"The only reason I was going for auditions when I won the role of Kate in Lost was an exercise in self-exploration," she said. "But I'm like a man - you know, 'I can do anything.'

"At 14 I thought I might one day be an actress. But by 18 I wanted to be a missionary. Acting as a career was just a blip on the radar."

The 28-year-old also confessed that her Lost co-stars were unhappy that she had landed a role on the hit show with relatively little acting experience.

She explained: "They were furious. You could see it written all over their faces. They were thinking, 'I've done all this work to get to this place and here you are with nothing to draw on, standing at the same place as me.'"

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