WHEN YOU’VE ALREADY shared the big screen with Arnold Schwarzenegger by the age of four, is there any role (or costar) you can’t handle? Not according to Odette Yustman, who has been turning heads since her pigtailed performance in Kindergarten Cop. In recent years the brunette beauty has delivered standout performances in films such as Cloverfield and The Unborn, as well as on the short-lived ABC drama October Road.
Today this actress’ star is rocketing into orbit with roles in the upcoming films Rogues Gallery, alongside Zach Galifianakis, and The Double, featuring Richard Gere and Topher Grace. This month Yustman stars opposite Kristen Bell and Jaime Lee Curtis in the comedy You Again, in which Bell comes home for her brother’s wedding to discover he is engaged to her high school enemy, played by Yustman (who, coincidentally, is in the throes of planning her own real-life wedding to Brothers & Sisters’ Dave Annable).
"I think nobody gets through high school unscathed,” says the 25-year-old Angeleno, thinking back to her high school arch nemesis, whom she channeled for the part. “One girl in particular made my life really impossible. I still think about it today.” Clearly Yustman is having the last laugh.
