Evangeline Lilly Talks about Playing Tauriel in THE HOBBIT
As you already know, Evangeline Lilly's Elf character Tauriel is a new character created for the Middle Earth cinematic universe. She will be introduced in Peter Jackson's next installment in the trilogy The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. She'll also be in the last film The Hobbit: There and Back Again. Tauriel is related to Legolas, and in a recent interview with Total Film, she discusses her character a little more saying,
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.
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.
When I first saw Lilly on LOST the first thought that went through my head was that she looked like an Elf, so it's pretty cool that she actually ended up playing one.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug hits theaters on December 13th of this year, and The Hobbit: There and Back Again comes out on December 17th, 2014.