After parts in the Stephen King-based television miniseries, “Firestarter 2: Rekindled” (Sci-Fi Channel, 2002) and “Salem’s Lot” (TNT, 2004) Byrd returned to feature films, beginning with “Cinderella Story” (2004), as Carter, the nerdy friend of lead Hilary Duff, who has a penchant for wearing elaborate costumes. He next appeared in the horror thriller “The Hills Have Eyes” (2006), playing Billy, the young son of a doomed family stalked by mutated desert dwellers, as well as in the limited-release suspense thriller “Lonely Hearts” (2006), playing the son of a police investigator played by John Travolta. In “Aliens in America,” Byrd played Justin, the decidedly unpopular son of Franny (Amanda Pietz) who was once popular in high school and takes it upon herself to boost her son’s coolness factor by bringing in a suave foreign exchange student to shake things up. What no one counts on is that the student would be Raja, a Muslim Pakistani, played by Adhir Kalyan, who promises to make Justin’s already awkward life more challenging.