Vera Farmiga has suffered on the big screen in some dark roles, portraying everything from a drug-addicted mom to a mental patient. Now, she’s pushing it to the limit again opposite Peter Sarsgaard in Orphan.

In the horror flick, Farmiga plays a woman haunted by the still-born birth of her baby who later adopts a young girl to fill the void. The actress told Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf what it took to put herself through the agony.

“When I was getting ready to do this film, I was desperately trying to get pregnant and wanting to be a mother. Meanwhile, I ended up spending time on grief Web sites where women talked about what can go wrong as they went through coping with the loss of a baby after a miscarriage. You realize…”

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