'I get to be in control': Why Evangeline Lilly is more comfortable penning kids' books than acting

The world knows Evangeline Lilly as an actor, but that's only one part of how she knows herself.

Lilly got her big break playing Kate Austen on the hugely popular television series Lost. When the series ended, she tried to retire from acting, but Hollywood kept luring her back with projects like Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy and roles like the Wasp in Marvel's Ant-Man franchise. Even so, Lilly has managed to make space for other parts of her creative identity.

Beyond acting, she's also the author of the children's book series The Squickerwonkers. Today, Lilly joins host Tom Power live in the q studio to talk about the latest book in the series, The Demise of Selma the Spoiled, which is out now.

If you're in Toronto, Lilly will be reading tonight at the Indigo at Bay and Bloor.

— Produced by ​Frank Lockyer Palmer