on larry king now chris abigail breslin takes on marilyn jr in august osage county i had a dream that i was going on to that and i forgot a line and meryl streep was like just go and you know you get all of that off the set list time you watch yourself in little miss sunshine was when so much of it when you know over my head because i was ten and then finally i thought like two years ago and i was like oh oh oh oh oh plus teenagers to date or do you get the point. what is it all matt stone larry getting now.

welcome to larry king our special guest is abigail breslin she first stole our farces all of hoover in little miss sunshine and was nominated for an academy award for that role at the age of ten abigail was now seventeen aging and starring alongside some of hollywood's greatest actors in august osage county a great movie soar last week a great movie the likes of beryl streep and julia roberts to name a few are in this film august osage county about a highly dysfunctional family to save the least brought together by a tragedy it opens christmas day you cannot miss it you see the play i actually did not see the play i was like ten or eleven when i was on broadway and so it was kind of a view above right over the head i think too that you didn't think you got it oh god no no i don't think at all i auditioned for it and i had like one hundred three

degree fever and i had been filming in toronto a movie and so my mom drove me down to new york for it and i got there and i read it and i was really sick and but i really loved the character a lot and i loved the script and so i just kind of did it and and then i left and i didn't find out until about four months later that i got it so i was fairly certain that there was no chance that i got it you will find out what took so long. and no i think they were just piecing together everything and john wells the director just wanted to make sure that everybody really worked well as a family together so i guess that's what it was but it was pretty nervous. king so marvelous you sat in oklahoma right oklahoma d. is it true you love auditioning oh yeah in a sense in a sense i do because i think that you know once you go in there and you're in the

room in your auditioning it's i mean it's your part for however long you're in there so you might as well mean most of it yeah you might as well make the most of it and yeah i kind of i like it for that reason but it is always nerve wracking i'm told that you had a terrible dream the night before the first day of shooting what did you dream of a gale. i did i had a dream that i was going on to say that and i forgot a line and meryl streep was like just go and get all set off the set and i was like you know cried in laughter but thank god that's not how often she said. i was a great girl and still nice you spend some time with her and continue to train trip once for three and a half hours from washington today she's a terrific person such an ice person the only person she's never played is meryl streep she's done everything exactly what's it like for you you were nominated at

age ten is still very young and not in college yet to work with people like chris cooper julia roberts your obvious is your mother meryl streep was that like for you. it was really nerve wracking it was really really nerve wracking i was pretty. pretty terrified to go into it. but once i got on the set and. everybody was really really just so nice to me and so welcoming and. and just really wanted to do the best movie they could and so it was it was really it was amazing and then to just sit there and be watching them and just be like wow i can't believe i'm actually watching all these actors right now on set it was like three months of acting school did anything it's a dark it's not like they're billing it as a comedy guys eyesores if it's a comedy it's a dark dark dark. it's about some very off beat subjects as tracy letts

often deals with was it difficult for you at all. on the subject matter yeah it's definitely difficult. my character gene is kind of going to a really weird time in life fourteen like fourteen. so a little bit younger than me but i remember that that at least wasn't too long ago and made it is a really tough age it's a really weird age i think when you're fourteen because you are not really you know you're not really a full blown teenager but you're not a kid anymore and you're expected to be really mature but you can't do anything that really requires maturity so it's kind of unfair and it's kind of a weird age so she's definitely going through a really hard time and that was that was that was fun to do it was fun to work with but it was definitely challenging in that desolate country right which was you live in buses were just they. lived in cardboard boxes you know no we stayed and

we stayed in this condo complex all of us together and there were just these many like little town houses and i was in between margot martin del and meryl streep and that was pretty crazy and you know you just walk outside your door and you see like meryl streep on loading groceries and you're just like it was crazy it was crazy how do you get to be ten and get a part in that movie you know little miss sunshine. doing it tend. to believe me i need. to get ten. i i actually audition for little miss sunshine the first time when i was. it was five or six when i first auditioned for it and then i kind of one way and then. jonathan and valerie the director saw me on

a talk show and. wanted to meet with me and then they met with me and they just gave me the part so it was kind of fun movie it was a really fun being so how did you get into this business that young when you did you have a doting mother who took your own. my brother was an actor before i was and when i was like five stories that i like was supposed to. i was some of my brother's agent at the time called and said can can i be audition for this movie because i don't have anybody to send it on it and i'm not sure i want to be it's called signs and my mom was like oh obvious really shy i don't think that she's really into that type of thing and i was not and so she came into my room was like you want to audition for a movie and apparently i was i was like brushing my doll's hair and i was like yes i'm ready. to like you right away. i guess i did like it a lot i liked it

a lot less time you watch yourself and little miss sunshine was when. oh boy i actually saw it on t.v. about two years ago and it was really hilarious to watch because the last time it's and i was ten years old and so much of it when you know over my head because i was ten and then finally i saw it like two years ago and i was like oh oh oh oh oh have you know a lot of people have had problems. in the business too much too soon child star many child stars a rough time later on in adulthood the adult with. known and getting all these great shots. why i've been really lucky. that i have you know really great family and really good friends and i live in new york city so it kind of keeps me and you know when i'm not working i'm just hanging out with my friends and i was you home schooled right i was home school not many people raise this. yeah i guess so both

my brothers were homeschooled as well but i i was kind of you know all throughout high school kind of i was friends with a bunch of kids from another high school in new york and then but it's kind of all hung out and even i didn't go to the school and it was great and i i mean it's never been something right i've been too worried about going off the grid or anything because my family keeps me really. kind of saying you reason i didn't know this you recently pose close to topless in a photo shoot. some people got angry that you had a bed sheet wrapped around you what was the occasion of the shooting well i wasn't topless as a big misconception i did i was completely covered the whole time i did it the photographers tyler shields' who's a really good friend of mine i want to our best friends and he's

a great photographer i didn't movie with him a year ago and. i'm his he's great i mean we just kind of did it because i love shooting with him in any opportunity i get anything for it was really just for nothing it was just because we wanted to do a shoot was the reaction overblown i think it was i think it was personally i do because i think that you know there is a headline that just came out saying that i was topless even though i wasn't and family rat i mean my family also the photos and my mom was there and we shot it and it wasn't like some weird thing and so yeah i think that if there hadn't been that type of headline just put out that wasn't true and one of been a bigger reaction your brother is still in the business my brother spencer is yeah he's an actor a writer director and a singer songwriter his first album and my brother ryan is a producer so yeah so it's a house of show business it has turned into

a house of. deans are you concerned when you see the bids some of your contemporaries people with a great deal of talent suddenly have problems as they get into a little more mature age the problems of the lindsay lohan's and justin bieber isn't admitted talents miley cyrus who seem to go off the bend yeah i mean for me it's like. it's just very different from from what i am and what i do i mean i just i'm like a typical you know seventeen year old girl you know i just i know it's true it's true i feel like i am and then i just happened to movie is really cool that i get to do that kind of how i see it and i just like doing that and i feel like you know i'm really lucky to do that and i want to keep doing that and so there's i wouldn't want to do anything to that so you're very protective of what you got right exactly

exactly what causes you that sort of i want to go to the new school. why i'm starting to find out i'm just finishing up all that great school shouldn't be hard for you i hope you know how it's going to get resurrect oh gosh but yeah i know it's not about like i grades so i have a back up well you and i know maybe maybe i always wanted to go to notre dame but i heard if i moved up our way new york i wished it was that coming up of a gale on the odd little lead will be right back. there. were very hard. to. get back with her but there was.

a bit of a. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate oh. that was funny but it's close in for the truth and might think. it's because when full attention and the

mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on we're going to be coming back. at our teen years we have a different pretty good because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not. ok i've. got to stick to the jokes while handling the stuff that i've got to.

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a story made for movies playing out in real life. with avigail breslin you will see her christmas day strange movie opened christmas day and this movie has it's a real wild movie is all this stuff osage county by the way i ran into the other night at dinner harvey weinstein is an old friend who published my last two books who loved you all told him what was tribulation you just love your performance and these great producer harvey yes he's amazing that's what about you and almost was nicole what's what maggie is the name of the movie and yet what is it about i just finished filming it and it's it's about kind of just a world that. where there is like a zombie virus taking over and so i am

a girl who's bitten by the zombie virus and it's very dark actually and it's not your typical zombie movie it's more about disease and the isolation of of that and only place to my dad my dad was allowed to work with them it was great it was awesome i loved working with him he's such a nice guy he's also the movie and yeah it was it was really cool like he likes her movies right i do i do the whole thing to make up did you have as a zombie. the makeup was kind of an untraditional zombie make up i mean. it wasn't necessarily bloody and gory we use a lot of like our contacts me a different stages use a lot of airbrushing for veins and. and wounds and when you shoot new orleans what was it like to see yourself as

a zombie. it was pretty it was pretty it was interesting i mean i thought it was going to be really really cool like i just love it and that was there were certain times and i just thought i was like well this is really cool but it was it was it was pretty you know sometimes it was it got really because it isn't really the subject matter of the film is really dark and it was sad sometimes it got a little bit emotional something where we see it i think next year at some point we don't have a release as you call him governor or mode. i guess which is other than you are always got the right he just told me to calm arnold. no. no no what's been your most challenging role to date is it is it just august was awfully challenging it was different from anything that i had done so yeah that was pretty it was pretty challenging for sure because to tap into all the different.

layers of the character and the story and the movie i did maggie with arnold was pretty challenging as well you're into music too right yes. yeah yeah i saying i write all the songs play guitar you know now i'm coming i've got me an album that i'm working on right now and i have a song out on i tunes right now it's called it's called christmas in new york. i think i know it's an old song no i wrote a new one i wrote it was something august osage county response in new york. good idea for a title good idea for a movie but yeah there you go do you date do you write to him as a seventeen year olds begin to date right at sixteen seventeen years it is do teenagers still baby already i meet you at the corner. what is gone my son is fourteen ok he's a good kid myself i've got two sons fourteen thirteen thirteen is still

a little baby but the forty four times of turning point is a killer is a killer is a killer to watch out for he goes out he goes away going to beverly drive well we're going up yeah that's a big thing the hanging out do you hang out i hang out with people all of i hang out with i hang out if you have a boyfriend i have oh boy. that's a hard. i hang out i hang out with you don't have a you have a boyfriend i hang out i mean our people are you know some people more than others we're not i you know to young to look for romance i mean like a serious role you know either i don't believe in it i think but i think i've discovered something here up until you're a good actress i regret i think here i've seen it and yourself away i've given myself what you know i like you know i like i like. i like watching romantic movie

is the you see movies where you said you have to do that part. i see movies a lot and i never think to myself like oh wow i wish i could have done that because i'm always like a narrow road with the people that have done it and i'm like wow they did such a great job with that so i would never want to try to recreate anything you will see her christmas day starting christmas day in august osage county for the best movies of the year you will not forget this movie in fact i intend to see it again thank you we talked about chance he's fourteen yes this is a picture of james very very good looking very handsome well i have trouble with him you well i think i think definitely you know a heartbreaker. by the way you played helen keller in an off road way production of the miracle of western. on book great way thank you yeah it was it was the i was a critical boy who played the lady who taught or else until you have the time doing

it i did it was it was difficult a lot injuries from it but there's a to be blind and yeah i had a knife in rehearsal once and i had to get stitches saw the scar all battle wounds readers watch this film i do like there are a lot i learned a lot from theater i think there is a really good experience to have and i want to do it again but it's challenging a couple of social media questions for you at all many tweets what was the best part about filming august osage county. the best part about filming it was probably just getting to work with the cast and john wells and. everybody a part of it and just kind of watching them and and it was a really surreal thing that was probably the best part of it maria's abia laura on him facebook wants to know what it was like working with halle berry jolie for stood up and catherine zeta jones you with abigail you starred with halle in the call with jodie in nim's island and with catherine in no reservations and they were

all incredible all very different but oh really really nice to me and. obviously incredible actresses but also just really good people in real life and so that was that was an awesome thing to get to work with you've had you got quite a resume seventeen of them very lucky starting at five yeah at amado on the bowery the a twit what's the most important thing you've learned from little miss sunshine to august osage county those seven years and the seven years i think the most important thing that i've learned is that. well one of us is just that whatever you do you have to be really connected to your and very passion about it and i think that that makes all the difference in like your performance and how you feel about the movie is that as long as you feel like you really really care about the project that you're doing that's really important to me ok we finish with

a little thing we call if you only know what i just have some questions to the first boy you kissed following top. i can tell you my first on screen kiss moon was the first. oh boy this is very embarrassing why it's not just you members named and i was in a room can you in a movie has in a movie who is he is i'm takes us to. just throw it on the stage the austin what was he like as didn't know jake to yes yes very high very guy ok. cross celebrity crush. always been on. what keeps you up at night when you were about i worry about bugs. bugs i'm a fear the pug are going to be in my bed that's when we really like. scary bugs

terrify me terrify me and actually off a very dead and have maggots on my arms have you been in florida and seen palmetto bug no i don't want to own and don't do a gram or via instagram favorite i grew more time oh yes actor i really like you know what i'm ryan gosling dead i do whose career you'd like to emulate. mean feral street is everybody in this movie i would like to i mean their parents the biggest misconception about teenagers today ok i think of the view is that here we go i think the biggest misconception is that teenagers are very like. people think that a lot that we don't really think about much or we're very self-centered selves are we can be self-centered but i think everybody saw sen a degree and we actually think about so much and that's why we get moody is because

we think about like all of the terrible things that could happen to us in the near future and it's very terrifying. and it's no different whether you're just a teenage girl we're going at the soda malt shop or an actress going through the same thing all going through the same thing oh my gosh i just call me when i'm not when i'm filming i'll go home at night last night my friends will just sit there and just talk about our feelings for hours favorite horror movie of all time. the exorcist what are your would you like to play that part. surely not yellow you're on a desert island what three things would you want with you. ok desert island i probably bring my i pod or my i phones our my i phone charger and about. it's good here very good if you were an actor or a musician what would you be. psychologist i could tell and finally

tell me something no one knows about you. ok i my my let's bring doesn't straighten and i'm double jointed compute so me oh no don't. oh really like i have so many more tricks i just can't demonstrate now. you have it all and you're very. great movie thank you thank you i guess the abigail breslin august osage county hits theaters christmas day you will love it you can find me on twitter at kings things see you next time.

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