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Cherry-picking the roles with bite

As a child, Isla Fisher had to contend with the terrifying notion that if she continued to suck her thumb, her teeth would jut so far out of her mouth that her lips wouldn't close and she couldn't eat, so would starve.

"One of the kids at school rather cruelly told me that and, obviously, I believed it and so I used to lie awake every night," she said. "I couldn't stop sucking my thumb but at the same time I was utterly terrified of what kind of contraption an orthodontist would have to use on my mouth."

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