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A Word About Courage
Emily Deschanel is four years older than Zooey Deschanel, which is scarcely an age gap when you’re 20-something, but it’s a lot when just you’re a little kid. And it was something Emily used to her advantage to torture her little sister. “When I was 3, she was 7, and she was already evil. She basically just used the plot of ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ to terrify me,” Zooey said (via US Weekly). “I was terrified,” she continued.
Emily admitted to Conan O’Brien that she loved to torment Zooey. “It was just the two of us, and I was the older sister, and we would fight all the time, but then, I would kind of play mental games with her,” she said. “My favorite one was I would tell her I was from Neptune, that I was a Neptunian, that I’d killed her sister and taken over her body, and that I was going to kill her next.”
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However, the transformation of Zooey from toddler to teen evened the playing field and enabled her to grab back control from her sister. “She’s very possessive about her things,” Emily told Queen Latifah. “Growing up, I was never allowed to wear her clothes … she had signs on her door … ‘Do not enter this room, Emily,’ and she had a boombox that she had like a paragraph on ‘Under no circumstances is anyone allowed to touch this boombox ever. That means you, Emily Deschanel.'”
