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" Whoever said girls were made of &amp;quot;everything nice&amp;quot; would be scandalized by Hollywood&amp;#039;s newest crop of tween stars, who are tackling dark, gritty material with the aplomb of seasoned icons. Thirteen-year-old Isabelle Fuhrman&amp;#039;s performance as a murderous midget in 2009&amp;#039;s Orphan prompted Robert Downey Jr.\u2014whose wife, Susan, coproduced the film\u2014to compare her to a young Jodie Foster. But Fuhrman says her only &amp;quot;training&amp;quot; consists of observing other kids at school and &amp;quot;taking a little bit from each person.&amp;quot; About her costars in next year&amp;#039;s Salvation Boulevard\u2014Pierce Brosnan, Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear, and Jennifer Connelly\u2014she cops to not doing all of her homework. &amp;quot;I haven&amp;#039;t seen all of their films, since a lot of them are rated R,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;But on set I kept pinching myself, thinking, How many Oscars are in the room?&amp;quot;  The caliber of their costars alone speaks volumes. Hailee Steinfeld, 14, was chosen from 15,000 hopefuls to play the lead in the Coen Brothers&amp;#039; remake of the Western True Grit, opposite Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re practically just big kids,&amp;quot; she says. And Kiernan Shipka, the 11-year-old behind Sally Draper\u2014the somber daughter of Jon Hamm&amp;#039;s elusive Don and January Jones&amp;#039; distant Betty in AMC&amp;#039;s Mad Men\u2014has carried some of the saddest, most affecting arcs of the outstanding past season. Deborah Lacey, who plays Carla, Sally&amp;#039;s quiet nanny, recalls a scene in which Sally, emotionally flattened after the loss of her grandfather, pummels her younger brother in a fit. &amp;quot;She went to a place that&amp;#039;s really angry for a kid,&amp;quot; Lacey says. &amp;quot;After we shot it, I thought, Where did this come from?&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s even more impressive considering that in real life, Shipka&amp;#039;s too sweet even to choose between Twilight&amp;#039;s Jacob and Edward. Her solution? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m Team Jedward.&amp;quot;          Photo: AMC, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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