Juliette Lewis was left open-mouthed when she saw a photo of herself in her latest big screen role.

The 37-year-old actress is barely recognisable playing a struggling woman in new movie Conviction.

“It’s the biggest transformation I’ve ever made on screen. It was a really intense role,” she told US chat show host Jimmy Fallon.

“I think that I just scared myself,” she added after the TV presenter showed a photo of her playing Roseanna Perry.

Lewis, who also fronts rock band The New Romantiques, said she was shocked when reporters started asking her about her teeth after seeing the movie at the Toronto Film Festival.

“I had just gotten a root canal a couple of days before and I’m in pain and I have to promote the movie,” she explained.

“The journalists who just saw the movie kept saying ‘So how’s your teeth?’ I thought ‘Oh my gosh, how did they know about my root canal?’”

Conviction, which also stars Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell, is being shown at US cinemas now.

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After being detained in Europe for carrying a bullet in her bag, a frightening hit-and-run accident and a few films due out in the next few weeks (‘Conviction,’ ‘Due Date’), Juliette Lewis’ rollercoaster year should provide some interesting fodder for the follow-up to her 2009 album ‘Terra Incognita.’ As Lewis tells Spinner, she already fleshing out new material, which should surface sometime in 2011.

“‘Terra Incognita’ was my avant-garde record,” she says. “My next album, just because it’s where I’m at, it’s much more catchy: Catchy choruses, simple riffs. I want to stack electronic sounds onto natural drumming. It’ll still be rock music. There’s a song called ‘Rockaway’ that we’ve been playing live. That song’s been killing it. It has a real simple ‘ooh ooh’ chorus. There’s another song called ‘Kick Drum Song,’ which is called that because I play kick drum on it. That’s all weird and contagious.”

“I always have contrasts,” she adds. “I may write something that’s really simple and catchy, and then write something the opposite of that.”

There’s no word yet regarding who Lewis plans on working with. For ‘Terra,’ she teamed with Mars Volta prog-head Omar Rodriquez-Lopez, but our conversation revealed that these days, she’s committed to her live show more than ever, where she feels liberated more than on a film set.

“People have to dig your live show. That was my first objective before selling CDs,” she explains. “I wanted that connection. I started music to feel less alone. I always felt like an outsider and alienated. Working in movies and getting famous very young only exacerbated that feeling of alienation. Doing rock ‘n’ roll, I wanted to get off that pedestal that someone else put me on. I have an audience from film who will show up initially. I’m good for a 100 tickets but that’s not what’s going to keep them. It’s a kick-ass live show and the music.”

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Juliette Lewis enjoys being treated like Elvis Presley.

The 37-year-old actress admits the passion of her fans sometimes brings tears to her eyes, and reminds her of the fervour shown towards the American singing legend. Juliette believes she has such a large fan base due to her ability to emotionally tap into her audience.

“I have this connection with my audience that has been so powerful over the years. I run into people in airports and on the streets and they treat me like I’m Elvis,” she told the Chicago Sun-Times. “It brings me to tears because all I ever wanted to do in life is move people emotionally. If I can serve as a catalyst in some little way by playing these parts, then that’s exciting for me.”

Juliette, who is also a solo singer, is currently recovering after a car accident last week left her with bruising and pain in her back and neck.

She is now enjoying spending some time at home, which is the place she loves the most.

“I’m an L.A. girl, born and raised there, but now I live in an uncool part of town with beautiful trees,” she admitted. “I love suburbia because it’s quiet. I don’t even get cell phone reception and I love it. All I want to do is live a quiet, peaceful life with my family in California.”

In her new film Conviction, Juliette plays a woman who gets her former boyfriend sent to jail.

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Juliette Lewis was lucky to escape a hit-and-run crash in California with minor injuries, according to police. The Cape Fear actress and singer was in the back of her car when a driver went through a red light and smashed into the vehicle. The damage caused was enough to see the car written off.

Lewis has since been discharged from hospital following complaints of pain in her head, back and neck.

Her spokesman described Lewis as being a “bit banged-up and sore, but otherwise thankfully OK”.

Police are still searching for the other driver.

Lewis was on her way home after promoting her forthcoming movie Conviction at an event.

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Actress/singer Juliette Lewis has thanked her fans for their love and support as she recovers at home from a hit-and-run accident in California on Wednesday night.

The “Natural Born Killers” star was traveling home from a promotional event for her new film “Conviction” when a Honda slammed into the side of her Lincoln Town Car at an intersection in Burbank.

She was admitted to a nearby medical center where she was treated for minor injuries and discharged hours later.

A friend took to the star’s Twitter page on Thursday to reassure anxious fans that the actress is okay following the accident.

The post states, “I’m speaking on Juliette’s behalf. She thanks you for all the love and well wishes. She’s okay, resting at home. Thank you for the love!”

Cops have launched an investigation into the hit-and-run after the driver of the Honda sped off after the incident.

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Jennifer Aniston may not have the best luck when it comes to finding Mr. Right, but her co-star in the upcoming comedy “The Switch”, Juliette Lewis, seems to think the 41-year-old starlet is pretty close to perfect.

“Jen was simply a piece of heaven,” Lewis recently told Pop Tarts while stripping down to her underwear and busily trying on the new Fall/winter 2010 collection at the G-Star Raw showroom in Los Angeles. “Just a real girls’ girl – really down to earth, funny and absolutely wonderful. I play her best friend and I am kind of daffy, but we just had a natural affinity for each other.” But Aniston’s not Lewis’ only co-star with whom she remains friendly. She opened up about her co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp, with whom she starred in the 1993 hit “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.”

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NATURAL BORN KILLERS star JULIETTE LEWIS has opened up about her romance with BRAD PITT, calling her time with the budding movie stud “lovely”.
Lewis and Pitt started dating years before they became big stars and were together when their breakthrough roles in Thelma & Louise and Cape Fear were released six months apart in 1991.
Though they split soon after, Lewis has nothing but fond memories of the time she spent as Pitt’s partner.
She tells Black Book magazine, “It was such a lovely time in my life… because we were anonymous. We were both struggling actors and Brad blew up after we were together… We were just unknown young actors in L.A.
“I even remember his little bungalow that we lived in off Melrose (Avenue), that we’d smoke lots of pot in.
“Then we split and he became Brad Pitt.”
Lewis admits she’s happy she wasn’t caught up in her ex-lover’s superstardom and everything that came with it – like her The Baster co-star Jennifer Aniston, Pitt’s ex-wife, was.
She adds, “It’s so hard but she handles it with such grace and humour.”

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