Rachelle Lefevre, 30, played a stripper on the short lived Seven Network show What About Brian but it's her role as baddie vampire Victoria in the hit flick Twilight that is getting her all the attention.

Things weren't looking so promising when they were filming the Stephenie Meyer adaptation. "We still laugh remembering us all being in the woods just outside of Portland, in Oregon, all dressed up as vampires and having no clue what we were getting ourselves into," she remembers. "We're like 'Remember when the whole cast used to go out to dinner and nobody knew who we were. Like when we couldn't get a table?' "

That has all changed since the over $US350 million grossing film has made genuine stars of its talented young cast. "I was in San Francisco at a Twilight convention to meet a bunch of our fans," says Montreal-born Lefevre, "Oh my God! Everybody has a bodyguard and they took us through the kitchen! I kept pretending I had a little secret service thing. It was so James Bond, you know, going through the kitchen!"

There hasn't been a lot of time to enjoy the adulation of fans, though. Filming has already begun on the sequel New Moon with a new director, The Golden Compass's Chris Weitz, and Lefevre says she's not apprehensive about the change from Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke. "I certainly get sentimental," she says. "Like, you start the journey and it would be nice to continue the journey with the same person, especially considering the fantastic job she did. But at the same time many series like Harry Potter change directors. And most TV shows get a new director every week. It's just about a different perspective. I'm sure he'll find something revelatory for the fans in a different way. So, no, it doesn't phase me at all."

And speaking of those fans, although she wouldn't really want to be a vampire - "the reason life is interesting is because it's short" - she does get their belief in things out of this world. "I don't know that I believe in the supernatural in the way it is generally portrayed, in terms of ghosts or things that are very sci-fi," says Lefevre. "[But] I certainly believe the universe is a vast, vast place and that we have the smallest fraction of understanding of that. And I believe in the idea that anything is possible. I think that's how I would put it."

Twilight is out on DVD.