[BlackTree TV - Los Angeles] Abigail Breslin discusses her new movie New Years Eve. New Year’s Eve… the great reset button of life. Director Garry Marshall, renowned for a catalogue of films that capture love in so many rich, warm and funny ways, calls it “the perfect opportunity to take stock of things, to think about the mistakes of the past year and about how maybe you can do better. A time to be thankful for what you have. But it’s also a fun, exciting, wonderful time, full of anticipation—and yes, some craziness. Mostly it’s about hope, when everything you want seems possible again, if you’re willing to take another chance.” Marshall means what he says. It was on New Year’s Eve nearly 50 years ago that he became engaged to the love of his life, his wife, Barbara. “She was wearing a dress the same color as the dress Halle Berry wears in the movie. We were in love, we were dancing, and we said, ‘Well, let’s see how it works out,’” he recounts. “It’s always been her favorite holiday.” Undeniably, romance steals the show in the countdown hours of December 31st as many couples look forward to that special midnight kiss, others seize the magic of the evening to make lifelong commitments, and still others decide to take a chance on someone new who might just be “the one.” But the emotional reach of the holiday goes further. While “New Year’s Eve” serves up romance in some of its myriad delicious and maddening stages, it also looks at love in some of its other forms …
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New Years Eve Interview w/ Abigail Breslin
