Posted by Howard Richman on April 02 2008 at 09:07:50:
An article in the Qatar Peninsula features homeschooled actress Abigail Breslin. Here is a selection:
LOS ANGELES • She´s been nominated for an Oscar, is busier than many actresses twice her age and has been named "Female Star of Tomorrow". But for Abigail Breslin, the "Little Miss Sunshine" star who turns 12 next month, making movies is still all about having fun and just being a kid.HowardSo her latest film, the adventure comedy "Nim´s Island" in which she plays a girl living on a deserted island with exotic animals for friends and zip lines as transport, was about as good as it gets for Breslin.
"It was so much fun. I got to work with sea lions and bearded dragon lizards and the pelican. I trained them and had to feed them and learned how to make them do tricks," Breslin said.
"I got to do a lot of climbing and running and flying on the zip line, which was really fun. I learned how to do duck dives, how to hold my breath under water and even how to scream under water," she said.
Breslin´s character Nim uses a zip line cable as a means of whizzing through the rainforest to the beach in her tropical island home.
"Nim´s Island," based on the children´s book of the same name by Australian author Wendy Orr, has Breslin teamed up with actress Jodie Foster in a rare comic turn. The family-friendly action movie with an underlying message about courage and the meaning of heroism opens in the United States on April 4....
Despite all the accolades, Breslin is like a breath of fresh air in the often precocious world of child stars. She is entirely home-schooled, doesn´t read media stories about her and appears to have little concept of the grown up perils that can accompany fame gained at an early age.