Her very first gig was acting alongside her current Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in the iconic Kindergarten Cop, and it’s only gotten better from there. With roles in Cloverfield and TV’s October Road plus this month’s starring role in The Unborn, ODETTE YUSTMAN is definitely a name you’re going to want to know.

So your first movie was Kindergarten Cop?
[Laughs.] Yeah, it’s kind of weird. I never realized it would get the hype that it did. I was 4 years old, I didn’t know what I was doing. I didn’t know who Arnold Schwarzenegger was. I had a great time, you know, I was with 30 kids my own age, just hangin’ out.

Were you one of the kids with a hilarious line?
I actually said something really creepy in Spanish. I said, “My father works in the house and plays with me a lot.” I mean, really? [Laughs.] That’s what I said!

Tell us about your character in The Unborn.
I play this girl, a normal girl, you know, normal life. And all of a sudden, creepy things start happening to her. She starts hallucinating and having these recurring dreams. She finds out that she’s a twin and her unborn twin died in utero. So there is basically this spirit that’s haunting her. The movie is her finding out how to get rid of it and what is really wrong with her. It’s a psychological thriller. It gets in your head; it’s pretty creepy.

What was the scariest part to film?
We were shooting in this insane asylum. The wing that we were shooting in had been shut down for years. So we’re shooting in it, and this huge light just starts flickering and then during another scene, it just kind of exploded. Then I was going down a stairway and it was dark, and I took a picture and [in the photo] you can clearly see this face thing. Crazy things were happening! I was terrified.

So do you believe in ghosts now?
You know what, I really never did. I kind of didn’t ever open myself up to that, but I mean it was kind of just obvious something was happening.

What’s rocking your iPod these days?
I definitely always have my few favorites: Damien Rice, a little Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Amos Lee, Ben Harper and recently, Katy Perry.

CHEAT SHEET >> Odette Yustman got up close and personal with the Governator when she was just a tot in Kindergarten Cop. Since then, she’s guested on TV’s Quintuplets and Life On Mars, and took a pipe through her shoulder in Cloverfield. This month she does mental battle with her dead twin inThe Unborn.