I really like Abigail Breslin. I don’t know what it is that causes so many child-actors to come across as overly mature, precocious, or otherwise annoying, but whatever it is, Breslin doesn’t have it. She’s great on screen in the movies she acts in, and then she seems just like a child her age should be when she does interviews. It’s refreshing, and that’s why I like seeing her continue to work.
The work is definitely coming for the Little Miss Sunshine star. Variety reports the young actress has signed onto three more projects, two of which are animated tales she would lend her voice to, with the third being a live action horror comedy.
The animated movies would put Breslin in some serious company - hopefully some she’d actually get to meet, even though animated projects frequently have vocal talent recording separately. Rango is the latest from Gore Verbinski, starring Johnny Depp as a household pet who winds up on an adventure. The second picture, The Wild Bunch, has Breslin alongside Willem Dafoe, Elizabeth Hurley, and Willie Nelson, in the story of a war between genetically altered cornstalks and common wildflowers. No, I’m not making that up.
Finally, the live action picture is a horror comedy titled Zombieland, which would feature Breslin as a con-artist sister to Emma Stone, who team up with Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg to deal with a world teeming with zombies. Really, what other child star would be so willing to do a zombie picture? Okay, probably most of them would (including Abigail’s brother, Spencer), but would we enjoy any of them as much as watching Breslin deal with zombies? I guess we’ll see.
