Little Miss Sunshine youngster star makes uncommon crimson carpet look for big day

This yr marks the 20^th anniversary of multi-award-nominated tragicomedy Little Miss Sunshine.

With an ensemble forged made up of Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano and Greg Kinnear, it’s a reasonably shifting movie and takes on themes together with household and despair.

Seemingly tying collectively the characters is the youngest daughter Olive, performed by Abigail Breslin. Taking part in the function aged 10, she ended up getting nominated for an Oscar for her efficiency.

And Breslin only in the near past made a really uncommon red-carpet look (her first in practically two years) for a reasonably big day. Her breakout function, the now 29-year-old went on to look within the likes of Zombieland, My Sister’s Keeper and Scream Queens within the years following Little Miss Sunshine.

On Wednesday (28 January), Breslin confirmed up on the 2026 Sundance Movie Pageant in Utah for the movie’s 20^th anniversary screening.

Plus, there was a little bit of a reunion on the crimson carpet as she was joined by Dano, Collette and Kinnear.

The Nim’s Island actor even shared a selfie from contained in the theatre along with her co-stars as she wrote within the caption: “One other blurry selfie courtesy of ya woman.”

And followers have been fast to reminisce as they mentioned Breslin gave ‘a few of the finest performing’ they’ve ever seen.

“You’ll all the time be our Little Miss Sunshine,” others mentioned as they referred to as the reunion ‘every part’.

Throughout a chat on the crimson carpet at Sundance (the place the movie first premiered again in 2006), Breslin revealed just a little tribute she had made.

“I keep in mind loving my cowboy boots and retaining these,” she mentioned of Olive’s iconic outfit within the film.

“And tonight I’m really sporting just a little homage of cowboy boots. Yeah, like a sly second.”

Casting director Kim Davis travelled to ‘each English-speaking nation’ within the search to discover a woman to play Hoover earlier than discovering Breslin by way of an audition.

The daughter of a expertise supervisor and telecommunications skilled, the actor first began her profession at simply three years outdated when she appeared in an advert for Toys ‘R’ Us.

She then went on to look in M. Night time Shyamalan’s Indicators in 2002, 2004’s Elevating Helen and in addition had a small function in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.

However Little Miss Sunshine was actually her breakthrough, along with her co-stars saying they have been ‘astounded by her seriousness of function throughout capturing’.

Her most up-to-date function was in 2025’s The Italians.