Rachelle Lefevre is on screen for all the right reasons. Whether digging into the core and consequence of human trauma, honoring her ancestors, or tearing through the jungle with a machete and a med kit, the flaming-haired heavy hitter mines the medium for all it’s worth. As the seductive, damaged, malicious first wife of Paul Giamatti’s Barney Panofsky in Barney’s Version (2010), Lefevre channeled a perverse spitefulness as she emotionally gutted her costar. She called the Feds on Kevin Spacey’s Jack Abramoff as a scorned girlfriend in Casino Jack (2010), and sang in Yiddish in Fugitive Pieces (2007), a beautiful and little known ode to survivors of the Holocaust, starring Stephen Dillane. Now co-starring on “Off the Map,” the new ABC series that’s equal parts medical drama and bushwhacking, cliff-diving tropical adventure, Lefevre plays Dr. Ryan Clark, a born-and-bred traveler who’s as at home in an operating room as she is in a makeshift lean-to. Set in a remote town in South America — and shot in Hawaii — the show follows a group of young doctors who have pulled up stakes in an attempt to escape their respective pasts.
Though the show was short-lived, the film role and the steady job provided the perfect opportunity for Lefevre to move to Los Angeles. She went on to appear on such series as “Bones,” “How I Met Your Mother,” and “Boston Legal” before being cast as the villainous Victoria in the first two installments of the Twilight series (2008 and 2009). Coming up for the rising star is the psychological thriller, The Caller, co-starring “True Blood”’s Stephen Moyer.
“Rachelle is a trooper,” Moyer relates. “She came on to the job with no notice. One night she gets a call, reads the script, gets on three planes the next morning to Puerto Rico. Arrives late afternoon and was on set that evening on an all-nighter. She was utterly committed — funny and unbelievably dedicated. She also introduced me to Bananagrams, for which I am eternally indebted. She’s also a bloody good actress.” Having earned the admiration of fans and colleagues alike, Lefevre takes some time with Venice to discuss the work that’s brought her here.
I like the show’s focus on the darkness that these characters are running from.
I think what our show addresses accurately is that old adage, “Wherever you go, there you are.” The idea that you can’t go and start over, because whatever you’re running from follows you wherever you go. You’re still the common denominator.
Do you enjoy the idea of taking the audience on this adventure with you?
It’s meant to be pure escapism on some level. Obviously, you’re going to feel things, and it’s going to ask questions, and it’s going to be about character — but if you feel like instead of shoveling your car out of eight centimeters of snow in January, you got to spend an hour in the jungle trying to find the right tree sap to heal a wound, then I really feel like we’ve done our job
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