Abigail Breslin Q&A (page 2)

30 April 2008

Is it true Gerard snuck up on you and pretended to be an animal on the island?

Oh, we were all staying in treehouses on the island and walking upstairs and he was in his tree house, so when you’re walking up there are a bunch of steps and bushes. So we were walking up and we heard this noise and we were like, 'Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh!' And we screamed and put up a flashlight and it was Gerard! And he started cracking up. He thought it was really funny!

What do you like to do when you’re not acting?

I like shopping. I like to read. I like swimming. There’s a place called Color me Mine and it’s really fun because you decorate your own ceramics and give them to people as gifts. I like to go to the movies too!

How did you feel like working with lizards? Were you afraid of them?

I wasn’t! I liked them, but the first time I had one on my shoulder I was a little scared. And during camera tests, it would always kind of plant itself on me, and then they would ask if I could stand up straighter, and make me turn around while it dug its claws in!

But I started to get less afraid and liked them a lot by the end.I’m afraid of spiders so that would have been a different story!

So do you want to be an actress when you grow up?

I either want to be an actress or a veterinarian.

Were all the animals you worked with real?

Some seals were animatronics, so they worked by remote controls, but they really looked like they were really moving their head and everything. But they are oily, you know, when you touch them they’re really oily.

And they had the stuffed sea lions and the animatronics sea lions on the beach. So the animatronics is there, and they use oil, and there’s this one scene where I’m lying down on top of them, and one of them was real, and one was fake. But I got up, and my whole and my whole back were covered in oil!

What was one of your favorite scenes?

When I got to dance with a seal lion. That was really fun. We practiced it a little bit, but they showed me the moves to do, and it was really fun!

How was the mountain climbing aspect?

That was fun. Part of it was done by my stunt double, Holly, but I did part of it too on a rock wall.

Was it really your first time in the ocean on this film?

Yep, the first ocean I have ever been in was in Australia. I did like it but I gulped a lot of salt water. I also got to snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef, so that was really cool.

Do you have any other projects coming up?

I have a movie coming out called Kit Kittridge: An American Girl, and I’m doing a movie with Cameron Diaz right now called My Sister’s Keeper. Cameron Diaz is really nice.