'Twilight: New Moon's Rachelle Lefevre claims fan support in 'Eclipse' flap
After being abruptly replaced in the cast of "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," Rachelle Lefevre says fan support has kept her spirits up.
Lefevre was replaced with Bryce Dallas Howard for "Eclipse," supposedly over scheduling conflicts. (The actress accepted a role on the independent film "Barney's Version," but has claimed she would have been able to shoot both movies.) Afterward, Lefevre tells Extra, fans leapt to her defense.
"I'm on Twitter and I remember opening up my Twitter... somehow in 140 characters my fans managed to write me things that were so unbelievable," the actress says. "[O]n YouTube... a bunch of fans from all over the world made me a tribute video. This girl from Australia collected stuff from all over the world. I mean they've just been incredible. I wrote on Twitter: 'If I could travel the world and hug you all personally, I would' -- because they really carried me through."
Though the character of Victoria is more prominent in "Eclipse" and barely figures in the book version of "New Moon," Lefevre says screenplay writer Melissa Rosenberg beefed up the role for the second "Twilight" movie.
"They wrote a lot of fun stuff for me from 'Twilight' to 'New Moon,'" she says. "In the book, Victoria is not that present and they really did their best. Melissa Rosenberg, our screenwriter, told me that she loved writing Victoria and there was great room for that. So she wrote a lot of stuff for me. I really hope it makes it into the film. You never know, because I haven't seen it."
"New Moon" opens Nov. 20.
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She was terrible! I'm so glad they replaced her for someone with some talent or else Eclipse would have been a complete joke!
Really Colleen? Since your negative post (the very first on the site) is in the microscopic minority relative to everything else on the internet and elsewhere, and since your post talks about the replacement, one can assume you are either a Scummit schill or have some other nasty agenda.
Personally, I liked Lefevre as Victoria. Haven't seen Howard in the role, but I think it's in poor taste to replace her and then lie to the public about why if that's the case. As of now, I'd say I prefer Lefevre.
I liked her in Twilight and would have liked to see her in Eclipse as well. Unless an actor/actress does a terrible job, which I don't hink she did, I like having all the original actors in sequels.
how i wish it was her as victoria
im gonna misss her!!
Idon't know if I did like Rachelle Lefevre as Victoria or not, but what I do know is that the new moon victoria had better act well, better than Rachelle Lefevre at least or else she will also be replaced!
I think this stupid I think they have original people that play them from start i'll still the movie but its not going to be the seem !!!!
It's very smart of her and her PR people to nourish this fake controversy as few people had heard of her or noticed her before in spite of the obnoxious Twilight marketing campaign (is it the most expensive campaign ever?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yblN8GTP0g
that's the link to the Tribute video Rachelle was talking about.
The creators are Emz&Shez Comics from Australia!
I'm a huge Twilight fan and I'm ok with the recast. RL was just ok and I have liked BDH work in the past so I hope she is good in the role. I do however hope the obsessive fans don't take out the fact that RL was recast out on BDH.