Vanessa Eng fully expected to become a lawyer, but now all evidence points to her becoming a successful film star.

The 27-year-old who grew up in Jericho is about to make her feature film debut in director Yorgos Lanthimos' dark comedy "Bugonia," which opens in Manhattan on next Friday and on Long Island on Oct. 31. In the movie, she plays the dutiful assistant to a high-powered CEO (Emma Stone) who is kidnapped by aliens.

And in a turn of events that seems as quirky as any scene in one of Lanthimos' typically surreal films, Eng wasn't even aware of what the film was about when she answered the cast call and then won the role.

"The casting director called me and said 'You got it.' And I didn’t even know who it was for, I was just sobbing hysterically. It was like somebody saw me and i

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