‘Club Kid’ Scene-Stealer Kirby Howell-Baptiste on Playing a Drugged-Up Party Girl Who Turns Jordan Firstman’s World Upside Down: She’s ‘A Complete Tornado’

“Club Kid” follows Peter, a hard-partying New York club promoter whose life changes when Edison arrives with Arlo, a 10-year-old boy she says is his son. Kirby Howell-Baptiste’s brief appearance as the chaotic Edison delivers the film’s pivotal revelation and sends Peter into a search for her.

Edison says Peter fathered Arlo with her friend Leonine, who recently died by suicide, during a drug-fuelled encounter a decade earlier. She leaves Arlo with Peter and fails to return, while later accounts of her conduct at New York parties fill in more of her story. Howell-Baptiste describes the character as a “complete tornado” who is wild but recognisable.