Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel
Evangeline Lilly says she didn't want to be part of a love triangle in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
Lilly is one of the new characters in the second instalment as she takes on the role of elf Tauriel.
Tauriel is caught in a love triangle with fellow elf Legolas and dwarf Kili.
Speaking to Access Hollywood the actress said: "For the record, when I took this job, in 2011, I made one stipulation. That's it.
"I just said... I swear to God, I said, 'I will not do this film if you will not guarantee me one thing. You have to guarantee me there will be no love triangle'."
"And there wasn't. For the whole time I shot. For a year of shooting there was no love triangle... And then, I came back for re-shoots in 2012 and they were like, 'Well, we made a couple of alterations to some scenes and we added a couple more scenes'.
"And all of a sudden manifested a love triangle before my very eyes and the film was shot, and I'm in and there's no getting out and there was no escaping it."
Tauriel is a character that doesn't appear in the book and has been especially developed for the film - she is a character that works really well.
Lilly and the rest of the cast are currently sitting at the top of both the U.S. and UK box office after a great opening weekend.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is out now.
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