My Sister's Keeper

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Cameron’s talk shows appearances

Cameron is set to appear on several talk shows next week to promote My Sister’s Keeper, which premieres next Friday, here’s a current list of the shows she has been confired to be appearing on.

June 22nd – Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien
June 24th – Live with Regis and Kelly
June 26th – Late Night with Jimmy Fallon


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Abigail Breslin's not Miss Sunshine any more: 13-year-old actress stretches her wings in My Sister's Keeper
By Bob Thompson , Canwest News ServiceJune 19, 2009 1:02 PMBe the first to post a comment


Abigail Breslin stars in My Sister's Keeper.Photograph by: Handout, FilesMove over Dakota Fanning. Abigail Breslin is gaining on you and she hasn't even hit her stride.

Breslin hinted at what she's capable of with her Oscar-nominated performance a few years ago in Little Miss Sunshine, but at 13 she's only just begun.

Another professional step in the right direction is her pivotal co-starring performance in the weepy My Sister's Keeper which opens in theatres June 26.

In Nick Cassavete's film version of Jodi Picoult's 2004 novel, Breslin portrays a child who sues her parents for medical emancipation when her mother (Cameron Diaz) demands that she give up a kidney to save her leukemia-stricken older sister (Sofia Vassilieva).

"My character's put in a difficult position, choosing between herself and her sister and her family and that was really hard to feel," said Breslin at a downtown hotel Wednesday. "It's even harder to show because she doesn't know who she is in the family."

What the young actress could count on were some solid adult actors. She has high praise for Diaz as the mom, Alec Baldwin who plays the child's lawyer and Joan Cusack who shows up in a cameo as the judge who rules on the requested emancipation.

Especially evident to Breslin was the connection she had with Vassilieva, the actress who plays her near-death sister. Maybe, it's because Vassilieva, now 16, started out as a child actress — first in commercials, then in two Eloise TV movies with Julie Andrews — and is currently featured in the show Medium with Patricia Arquette.

"We also spent time together and went shopping for some of the things you see in our characters' room," reported Breslin.

It's that simple to the young actress. Born in New York City, she's the daughter of Kim Breslin, who manages her career and continues to marvel at Abigail's innate sensibility to find the correct emotional moments on a movie set.

"Even as toddler she would be able to do whatever was asked of her," her mother said during a recent interview.

The natural thespian began her career at the age of three doing TV commercials, showing off her ability to find the sad or happy moment upon request.

Her movie debut arrived at age seven in M. Night Shyamalan's Signs, and she continued to impress, winning parts in such high-profile films as The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement and Raising Helen with her brother Spencer Breslin and Kate Hudson.

She managed some noteworthy TV guest spots, too, on Ghost Whisperer, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, What I Like About You and especially Grey's Anatomy.

Her Oscar-nominated and incredibly detailed embodiment of Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant hopeful Olive Hoover sealed her deal, however, and established her as the girl most wanted by 2007. Although she downplays the assorted opportunities that arrived in the post-Oscar nod flurry.

"I don't know," Breslin said. "I just do the movies and characters and stories I like. My mother still reads the scripts first, then I read them and we talk about them, and if I get asked, we do them."

Still, in quick succession, she scored some high-profile parts after Little Miss Sunshine. She was featured in Jodie Foster's special effects fantasy Nim's Island with Gerard Butler. She co-starred with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart in No Reservations, and she took on the title character Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, a movie which brought to life a popular American doll line.

In Definitely, Maybe, Breslin confessed that she felt like she was playing a variation of herself for the first time. In the romantic comedy she portrays the divorced daughter of a Manhattan political consultant (Reynolds). "She sort of dressed like me and looked a lot like me," Breslin noted, "so that was fun."

She gets just as excited pretending to be other people's voices. She'll be showcased as one of the main characters in the cartoon Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey also featuring Chris Pine, Amanda Peet and Samuel L. Jackson.

She won't confirm other voice parts, but she might be in two more animated motion pictures, including Gore Verbinski's animated Rango with Johnny Depp and Isla Fisher, and then maybe The Wild Bunch with Willem Dafoe and Chris Klein. She also might be teaming up with AnnaSophia Robb in Garry Marshall's 1960s road comedy Dear Eleanor, which is set to start shooting later in the year.

Breslin will confirm that next for her is the horror-comedy Zombieland, opening Oct. 9, and featuring Breslin, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Mila Kunis.

"Yes, it should be a little different from the other movies I've done," she said. "You get scared and laugh and cry, so it has a lot of different things."

Does she play a zombie or a teen running from them?

"I cannot say," teased the actress smiling. "I guess you will just have to find out."

Abigail Breslin's not Miss Sunshine any more: 13-year-old actress stretches her wings in My Sister's Keeper
 
I also like Dakota as well, she's great as well - but i prefer Abigail

Abigail's interviews just seem so natural and she just says what comes to her


Have you been noticing these big stone rings Cam, Sofia and Abi have been wearing, Cam's got a green one, Sofia's got a yellow one and Abigail a brown/black one - i am thinking is it for good luck for this movie? :cool:
 
My Sister's Keeper' star may be a kid, but she's a total pro
By RICK BENTLEY

It's easy to think of 13-year-old Abigail Breslin as being a seasoned acting veteran.

After all, "My Sister's Keeper" director Nick Cassavetes calls her a "70-year-old woman in a 13-year-old's body."

But there are plenty of signs the Oscar-nominated actress is just a typical teen, too.

She can't wait for the next "Twilight" film to come out. She didn't get to finish reading the script for her new movie "My Sister's Keeper" when it first arrived because it was her bedtime. And whenever co-star Cameron Diaz cooked for the cast, all Breslin wanted was chili-cheese fries.

"I clean my room, make my bed. I have to dump the garbage twice a day. Feed the dogs. Feed the cats. Feed the turtle. Feed myself," Abigail says while talking to the press about "My Sister's Keeper." She pauses to think about what she has just said. Then she adds, "I do a lot of feeding. I occasionally make cookies, which feeds everybody."

Kim Breslin, Abigail's mom and manager, says its important for Abigail to do the normal things children her age do so that she will know how to play a kid.

After hearing her mom's comment, Abigail sarcastically jokes: "So I only do kid stuff for research. I wouldn't want to do all the fun stuff. I just have to."

Even Diaz was surprised by how Breslin can be very mature and still be a kid.

"What was amazing about working with Abby was that I realized one day on set you see her and she is this little girl. But she's got so much power in her I went up to her mother and said, 'She is a warrior,'" Diaz says. "She can take all of these adult, complex situation and ideas and put behind it more strength than you see with most people."

Diaz was surprised during one scene when Abigail was crying even though she wasn't on camera. Diaz told the young actress the tears weren't necessary. Breslin's response was, "It's OK. I got it."

In the case of "My Sister's Keeper" Breslin dealt with some heavy emotional moments. Her character goes to court to get her parents to stop using her as a medical supply depot for her sick sister. If she wins the case, her sister will die.

A few years ago Abigail had to deal with the death of her grandfather after his fight with cancer.

"I think what was hardest with my grandpa was that we all knew what was going to happen. That is something that happens in this movie. Everyone in the family - even if they don't want to admit it - knows what is going to happen. You take from what you do know. My character loves her sister so much she is willing to go to any lengths to help her. That was what I liked about the movie," Breslin says.

Though movies such as "Nim's Island," "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Definitely, Maybe" have made her a star, the average life of a kid keeps popping up. Breslin has to spend time with an on-set tutor when she is working on a movie. The rest of the time she is home schooled.

Balancing work and school will continue. Breslin has a half-dozen movies in various stages of production. Per her desire to do different types of roles, Abigail's next film is the animated "Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey" and then she's in the dark comedy "Zombieland."

"I like to play characters I have never played before," Breslin says. "For me, if I was to play the same character over and over, it would get old."

My Sister's Keeper' star may be a kid, but she's a total pro - Kansas City Star


My Sister's Keeper's Abigail Breslin hangs tough
By Ian Caddell
LOS ANGELES—
Thirteen-year-old Abigail Breslin is not yet a household name despite having accomplished something that several more famous child stars of recent vintage have been unable to achieve. She has won an Oscar nomination, an honour that evaded high-profile child actors like Dakota Fanning, Macaulay Culkin, and Lindsay Lohan. Breslin scored her nomination for 2006's Little Miss Sunshine.

Three years later, she has appeared in seven movies and has three live-action films and two animated movies scheduled to be released in the near future. The first of these is My Sister's Keeper, which opens June 26. In it, she plays Anna Fitzgerald, an 11-year-old who was conceived to help her older sister Kate (Sofia Vassilieva) survive leukemia. Anna rebels against the use of her blood and body parts without her permission and goes to court seeking emancipation from her parents (Cameron Diaz and Jason Patric).

In an L.A. hotel room, Diaz tells reporters that Breslin's success as a child actor is owed to the fact that she is “a warrior”. Later in the day, Breslin tells the Straight that she is unsure of how to react to what she assumes is a compliment. “I don't view myself as being that tough,” she says. “I think of myself as being more of the observer. I guess I try to be a warrior, but I have always felt that people laughed at me when I have tried to be tough. They say, ‘You can't talk to me like that.' But I think my whole family is pretty strong, and I have learned to be that way.”


Watch the trailer for My Sister's Keeper. Whether or not Breslin can continue to be the first choice of directors casting for young girls will depend on the image she projects to child audiences. Until recently, she and her mother, Kim, who reads the scripts first, have been fairly conservative in choosing projects, a list that literally includes an all-American girl in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. She says she likes to take risks, and that is evident in the choice of Vengeance: A Love Story as one of her upcoming films. In it, she plays a girl who has been gang-raped.

“I like characters that are strong and take care of themselves,” she says. “I think that is really important, but I also want to have them be different from others that I have played. I think that it is fun to be a different person all the time. That doesn't mean I hate myself. But some of the stuff that Anna goes through in this movie I don't know if I could do. I don't know if I could be that brave to go to court. But I always try to play people who are strong and brave, and, hopefully, I have learned how to be strong on my own through those characters. I want to try things that I have never done and do new stuff because it's more fun. The one thing that is always similar is that they are people I would want to know.”

There is a career risk that comes with a child star taking on a role that fans are not interested in seeing him or her play. Fanning was 13 when she played a rape victim in Hounddog, and interest was so limited that the film was only released in a few markets. Kim Breslin says that the roles that she and her daughter are most interested in pursuing are those that allow her to grow both as an actor and a person. “I know what Abby likes, and when she talks to me about what she wants to do, she makes it clear she does not like to be a victim. That is not to say that she can't be in a position where someone is hurting her, but in the end she likes her character to be intact and not to have been destroyed by something. While I don't know why she makes that choice, I support it because that is a great way to portray a young girl.”

Breslin probably won't give up her life to an acting career. Instead, it appears she will be taking the route previously chosen by her Nim's Island costar Jodie Foster, who took time off from her career as a child star to pursue a college education. Breslin says that although she hopes to continue acting during summer vacation, she has already chosen the university she will attend, her roommate, and even the location of their apartment.

“When I turn 18, I am going to college. Me and my cousin Jan have already picked out what street we will live on and the colour scheme for our apartment, and she is going to Columbia and I am going to NYU. It's all set.”

My Sister's Keeper's Abigail Breslin hangs tough | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com
 
My Sister's Keeper Cameron Diaz exclusive - Abigail and Sofia talk too!
My Sister's Keeper Cameron Diaz exclusive
 
Cant wait to see Abigail on a chat show, i like seeing her in her interviews :)

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Yeah she played a ghost in one of the episodes :D It's amazing where she pops up, I remember seeing her in an episode of Grey's Anatomy once :lol: She was really good in that episode
 
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(Abi's so cute when talking about her turtle lol)

from Manny The Movie Guy
Yes, I cried a lot watching "My Sister's Keeper" but it was a joy to meet the talented ladies of the film including Cameron Diaz (Sara Fitzgerald), Abigail Breslin (Anna Fitzgerald), and Sofia Vassilieva (the dying Kate Fitzgerald).

We talked about:

The film's character-driven nature
Working with "The Notebook's" Nick Cassavetes
How each of them got involved with making "My Sister's Keeper"
Abigail's turtle named Manny :)
 
Cameron Diaz says making new moive My Sister's Keeper wasn't all doom and gloom - mirror.co.uk
 
Video: 6 Clips From My Sister's Keeper

Video: 6 Clips From My Sister's Keeper
(Remember though, all clips could contain spoilers)
 
Cameron, Abigail & Sofia Talk ‘My Sister’s Keeper’

Cameron, Abigail & Sofia Talk ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ | Access Hollywood - Celebrity News, Photos & Videos
 
Abigail Breslin was amazing as Anna in the movie. I was kind of disappointed that they'd shifted the focus onto Kate and Sara more in the movie, instead of focusing on Anna's dilemma and storyline.

Still a great movie though :D
 
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Aww....why can't the film be out already? :( Seriously, waiting until the 26th feels like a lifetime away!
 
i just cried my eyes out when i saw the movie :( i loved it though... abigail breslin was excellent as Anna!
 
Quote my post on the vid and have a look how i have done it :)

You seen the Zombieland promo yet?
 
Yeah i agree, that the release are scattered seeing a most countries will be getting this movie in July or August

I also would have love to seen a UK premiere and interviews in the UK on talk shows, but i have to say its done really well so far, being in the Top 5 and all that
 
Thats great ice ice :) - i hope your dad will be ok when he sees Sofia


What i have read so far, is most ppl says its a total tearjerker and you'll need tissues but i havent read anyone say its a good movie/brilliant movie :confused: which is a shame



'My Sister's Keeper' skillfully explores a moral dilemma as it delivers a good cry | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press


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