MSN’S TWILIGHT SUPERFAN: RACHELLE LEFEVRE ON ‘NEW MOON’

The Twilight Superfan over at MSN Movies has a great interview with Rachelle Lefevre where she gets even more in-depth on her character Victoria and her scenes in New Moon.

Do you get to walk on that magic carpet thing again?

RL: No, no magic carpet this time. I’m all in a harness. I’m 25 feet up most days and then any time I’m on the ground they’re doing like, depending on, I think it’s like, 12 frames per second or 72. So they can slow it up or speed it, you know. And then you’re literally just running and jumping and chasing.

It sounds like it’s a lot more stunt work than you thought it might be.

RL: It is, it is. It’s amazing. It’s funny our running joke—because I’ve been doing it for 2-1/2 weeks—and like we had a cast dinner last night, and everybody’s like, “Where have you been?” Because I see them all the time at night but I never see them during the day and they’re like, “Where are you?” And I’m like, “Oh you guys don’t know but we’re making another whole other movie in the woods a half hour away.” So I said, “I hope we get an extended version of the scene on the DVD because I’ve been filming the same stunts. I’ve been filming the same fight sequence for 2-1/2 weeks!”

So we get to see you jump from 25 feet up in a tree down to the ground?

RL: There’s leaping off trees to the ground. There’s leaping up in the air from trees to other trees. I was about 40 feet up just hanging out, looking like I was just kind of standing there. There’s a lot of that. And then my stunt double, who spent 5 years with Cirque du Soleil, did some very cool like, backflips and things like that on the wires. Yeah, getting thrown around by werewolves. So you’d be like, in one place one minute and then they pull the…you’re like hooked up to wires…and then they’ll pull the wires and then you get yanked up flying into the air and your body’s folded in half. It’s very cool.

So you actually have contact with some of the werewolves?

RL: I have some potential. There’s like, sort of a chase thing. In “New Moon” you know how Victoria is trying to penetrate in, to get to Bella? And the wolves are protecting her? And they talked about, you know we chased Victoria here? So you’re going to see of bit of that “we chased Victoria here.”

And in the pool?

RL: The pool thing is the scene where it’s just a little more because it has to be visual because you’re missing…you can’t just do pages of description of Bella’s feelings of impending doom and the flash in the water. So they’re actually going to show a little more of my trying to get to her in the water.

Can you tell us about the new actors who are the wolf pack essentially?

RL: You know, I met them at some of the rehearsals and I met them at a cast dinner, but I haven’t really haven’t worked with them. And so I haven’t got to meet them so much but they seem like really nice guys. And it’s so funny, they were like instantly a “pack.” Like, we went to sit down at one point at a group dinner and I turned and they were all sitting together. I was like, “Oh they’re already a pack!”

Have they told you when you need to be available for “Eclipse”?

RL:I think they said sometime in August. That’s as close as we’ve gotten now.

Are you already thinking about your scenes there? You’ve got great scenes.

RL: Yeah, I mean all ready we’re all…you know and I started to sort of go back to “Eclipse” now but I’m trying to like, just go all the way to “New Moon” without getting too much ahead of myself. So I have like 3 days left and then back to “Eclipse” and we’ll just have to wait and see like we always do. Wait and see what makes it into the script and what doesn’t. What gets added for purposes of moving the story along.

Read the entire interview here.

I love Rachelle’s comments on the pack. It is pretty funny that the actors playing vampires hang out together, and the actors playing werewolves hang out together. I’m really excited to see all of Rachelle’s stunts in the film.

What did you think of this interview? Which part of the story with Victoria are you most looking forward to?