Zooey Deschanel lived in fear of her sister

Two of my favorite sibling actresses are Zooey and Emily Deschanel and apparently Emily went to my school of older sisterdom. Zooey grew up thinking her sister was an alien who wanted to kill her.

“I grew up believing my sister was from Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me,” said the “500 Days of Summer” actress. “My sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she’d seen ‘Invasion Of The Body Snatchers’ and her imagination ran away with her.”

Zooey added she also grew up with a strong connection to the paranormal and took years to get over an innate fear of supernatural beings.

“It took me years to get over my fear of ghosts. I believe there are things within my control and things outside my realm of control. Eventually I realized it was time to stop feeling anxious about ghosts that I’ve never met, may never meet and may not even exist,” said Zooey.

While the paranormal may be outside of her control, her career is not and she always knew she wanted to be an actress.

“My nursery school did a production of The Three Little Pigs. Even at two I was very specific about how I wanted the scene to play out, like I would insist that the narrator called me ‘Third Baby Pig’. When the wolf started knocking on the door I refused to get up and open it because he was knocking the wrong way.”