Rachelle Lefevre: Twilight changed my career, but not my life

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Star of Channel 5's Under the Dome, Rachelle Lefevre revealed how Twilight and The Twilight Saga: New Moon were game-changers for her career, but not her personal life.

“I’d never done anything that high profile before. Twilight opened up a lot of doors,” says Rachelle, who memorably starred in the saga as vampire vixen, Victoria, before losing the role to Ron Howard’s daughter Bryce Dallas Howard, due to scheduling clashes.

“The thing that really made it feel the most like a game changer was the fan base. Twilight fans are so incredible; they support everything I have done after Twilight and my career as a whole.”

Rachelle admits she’s equally happy life hasn’t changed too much: “Thankfully I’m not uber-famous in any respect so I don’t get accosted in the street very often or have paparazzi follow me around. I did for a minute during the whole Twilight thing, but now my life is pretty quiet. I’d hate not be to able to go to the supermarket in my pyjamas!”

 

Elaine Reilly
Writer for TV Times, What’s On TV, TV & Satellite Week and What To Watch

With twenty years of experience as an entertainment journalist, Elaine writes for What’s on TV, TV Times, TV & Satellite Week and www.whattowatch.com covering a variety of programs from gardening and wildlife to documentaries and drama.

 

As well as active involvement in the WTW family’s social media accounts, she has been known to get chatty on the red carpet and wander into the odd podcast. 


After a day of previewing TV, writing about TV and interviewing TV stars, Elaine likes nothing than to relax… by watching TV.