VANCOUVER SUN: JODELLE FERLAND ON BEING CAST IN ‘ECLIPSE’
The Vancouver Sun has a brief new interview with newly added Eclipse actor, Jodelle Ferland. Jodelle talks about getting the part in Eclipse, twitter and becoming a vampire:
Jodelle Micah Ferland didn’t know much about Stephenie Meyer’s vampire saga before Twilight was released late last year, but she’s catching up fast.She should. The 14-year-old Vancouverite has just landed a coveted role in Eclipse, the third film in the series. Since seeing the first film with friends and auditioning for the role, she borrowed and read all four books.
“I hadn’t heard much about Twilight when it first came out,” she said in a phone interview from Playland.
“I’m home-schooled so sometimes I don’t hear about things like that,” she said. “But my friends were all freaking out about Twilight and I was like ‘What’s that?’”
“Now I know what it is, obviously,” she laughed.
She’s up to speed now and entering a whole new world of notoriety. Since Twittering the news about being cast in the film, Ferland has been gaining about 100 new Twitter followers an hour.
“I got about 2,000 new followers on the first day,” she said. From young actor to global phenomenon with the flick of a switch.
“I got Twitter just a couple of weeks ago and I had 136 followers and I was like ‘Wow, I have 136 followers,’” she said. “And then the Twilight news came out and we checked and it was 800 and something right away.”
“I started freaking out, I couldn’t believe it.”
Ferland has been working in film and television since she was two years old, starring in her first film at the age of four (Mermaid) and playing the lead in a successful suspense thriller (Silent Hill).
She has worked with Rene Zellweger, appeared on Late Night With Conan O’Brien and just-wrapped The Cabin in the Woods written by Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Drew Goddard (Lost), but nothing of the magnitude of the Twilight saga.
“I’m so excited,” giggled Ferland. “It’s not that I didn’t think I would get the role, it’s just that things like this never happen. I’m still having a hard time believing it.”
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Interesting she can’t say who she is playing yet, but I really would think it is Bree. Jodelle will do a great job, I’m glad she was added to the Eclipse cast.
What do you think of Jodelle’s excitement about joining the cast? Do you follow Jodelle on twitter?
