Evangeline Lilly Drags DC Films at Emerald City Comic Con

Evangeline Lilly held a spotlight panel at Emerald City Comic Con this weekend and used it to talk up Marvel and drag DC. Bleeding Cool reports that she was asked about her role as Hope Van Dyne/The Wasp in the MCU, and told the familiar story of thinking she would retire from acting until Peter Jackson offered her the role of Tauriel in the Hobbit trilogy. She then revealed that post-Hobbit she was planning to retire again when fate intervened again:

“Then Edgar Wright called me.”

He wanted her to join Ant-Man. (This is where I pour one out for the Wright-directed Ant-Man we never got to see.) The only thing was, even though she wanted to work with Wright, she wasn’t sure she wanted to do a superhero movie. She wasn’t at all familiar with Marvel’s films at the time, but the somewhat unconventional casting of Paul Rudd as Ant-Man had her intrigued, so she decided to check out the MCU:

“How have I missed these guys who are making really cool superheroes who don’t take themselves too seriously.” 

Then she took her shot: Who would she call an example of the opposite? “DC films.”

Sick burn, but I mean, it’s not exactly inaccurate. I know that fans (and MCU actors) often feel the need to pick a side between the two comics giants and throw stones at the other side, but there is a place for both styles of movie. And honestly, while I am definitely on the record as preferring Marvel’s approach overall, The Dark Knight is still my favorite superhero movie of all time, and that is definitely a movie that takes itself seriously. I’m not a fan of any of the DCEU movies, but that has more to do with being absolute allergic to Zack Snyder’s entire worldview, and I am seriously hoping that Wonder Woman will be great. 

So I guess my point is, yes, you can drag DCEU movies pretty easily, but it’s probably better to just hope both comic giants put out great films, because then we all win.