Fame does not come naturally to The Inbetween star Harriet Dyer

Former Love Child actor Harriet Dyer is still trying to work out what to make of the attention that has comes with starring in a prime-time US crime drama

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Former Love Child actor Harriet Dyer is off to a flying start in Hollywood.

But the Australian is still trying to work out what to make of the attention that has come with starring in prime-time US TV crime drama, The InBetween.

“What I have worked out is that probably no one feels like a Hollywood star, even the starriest stars,” Dyer says.

“I have never been chasing fame, that has never been anything that I have clearly desired. Doing great work and being paid for it, and being able to live overseas and have all these opportunities opening up here and there, and people being receptive to my work, that is like a dream come true, that is the bit where I feel very honoured and humbled. But in terms of feeling like a star, not so much, I get very awkward.”

Harriet Dyer as Cassie Bishop in The InBetween. Picture: Christopher Fragapane/NBC

The InBetween stars Dyer in the lead role of Cassie Bishop, a young woman with latent psychic abilities who is able to communicate with spirits and has flashbacks and premonitions.

With that ability, she helps her Seattle Police Department officer father, Tom Hackett, played by Paul Blackthorne, with his cases.

The first two episodes have already aired on NBC in the US while the show will have its Australian premiere on Foxtel’s Universal Channel at 8.30pm tonight.

“It is a weird time for sure for a girl from Townsville,” Dyer says of the attention. “It is a pretty wild feeling.”

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Feedback from reviewers and across social media has been largely positive to the series that Dyer describes as a “crowd pleaser”.

“I didn’t know people got on Twitter to be positive,” says Dyer, who played Patricia Saunders on Love Child. “It is not a side of Twitter I had ever experienced. I have just been so overwhelmed by the folks who loved the first few episodes in America.
We are off to a good start. People might have thought it was just Medium again or another Ghost Whisperer and it is not, it is something totally different so that is a real credit to the show.”

Harriet Dyer as Cassie Bedford in a scene from the InBetween. Picture: Sergei Bachlakov/NBC)

The InBetween has opened Dyer up to the supernatural world and the possibility of life after death, particularly after a moment with a clairvoyant while filming.

“I do (believe) now. I didn’t (before)
just because I had never experienced anything,” she says. “I had a healthy scepticism until I met this woman and it really shifted my world view. She knew the tiniest things about me she could not have possibly known.”

Contractually, Dyer is in limbo at the moment as she will not find out until the end of the month whether The InBetween will get the go ahead for a second season.

Chad Buchanan as Will and Harriet Dyer as Cassie Bedford. Picture: Sergei Bachlakov/NBC)

She has been auditioning for other projects, mostly films, and is keen to work in theatre in the US.

“There is a lot of waiting in this job and so you have got to try and root yourself to the ground in other ways,” she says.

“I have got girlfriends who are getting married and having babies and I want to know if I can be there to be a bridesmaid and be present on a particular date. My heart is so there but you never know if you will suddenly be filming in Cambodia or Tasmania. There is very little control so you have got to find the joy in the now. That is the same with everyone I guess, no one knows what is around the corner.”

The InBetween will premiere on Foxtel’s Universal channel tonight at 8.30pm.

Originally published as Fame does not come naturally to The Inbetween star Harriet Dyer