Abigail Breslin A Mature Child Actor

Aaron Eckhart didn’t have any reservations about working with Abigail Breslin in No Reservations, because even though she is young, he feels she is a natural.

“The greatest thing about Abigail is that she takes direction,” the actor told The Baltimore Sun. “She’s so smart. She understands the whole script thematically. Most child actors can’t do that. They just recite lines their parents recite with them in the hotel room.”

No Reservations director Scott Hicks said Breslin’s career began when her mother took Abigail’s older brother, Cat in the Hat star Spencer, on an audition – and the casting agent took an interest in Abigail.

“Her mother asked her if she really wanted to do it, and she thought about it for a while and said, ‘I think I’m ready,’” Hicks recounts. “She’s so guarded by her family.”

Breslin, who appeared in her first commercial at the age of 3, was in the films Signs and Raising Helen before her star turn in Little Miss Sunshine, for which she was nominated for an Oscar.

“On our movie,” Hicks told us, “she was very responsive. She listens very carefully. Once she gets the concept, she’s wonderful. What comes out of her imagination is amazing. She cries; she emotes. She just feels the grief. But she can also be restrained and hold it in.”