{"id":828825,"date":"2026-07-27T08:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828825\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T08:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:27:11","slug":"little-miss-sunshine-stars-share-why-they-believe-film-is-the-most-dangerous-movie-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828825\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Miss Sunshine stars share why they believe film is the \u2018most dangerous movie ever made\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The cast of Little Miss Sunshine is reflecting on the 2006 road trip comedy \u2014 and the loose safety protocols that went into filming the indie hit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At Sundance<\/a> earlier this year, actors Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Paul Dano and Abigail Breslin spoke with People about the 20th anniversary of the film, which also starred Steve Carell and the late Alan Arkin<\/a>, and reminisced on shooting scenes as a fictional family in a beat-up van.<\/p>\n

While speaking about rehearsals for the movie, 63-year-old Kinnear told the outlet<\/a> in the article published Sunday, \u201cThis is before we even got on the road and started shooting the movie, which is the most dangerous movie ever made because maybe there was one follow car somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that every scene filmed in the van involved him actually driving, while the film\u2019s directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris \u201ccontorted\u201d in the car \u201cwith a headset listening.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the idea that this was the most dangerous film ever made,\u201d joked Breslin, who was 10 years old when she starred in the movie<\/a>. Kinnear added, \u201cNo children were damaged in the making of this movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe cast of \u2018Little Miss Sunshine\u2019 said filming the movie was dangerous because of their antics on the road<\/p>\n

Nowadays, professional films usually shoot driving scenes by towing a car or mounting it on a platform driven by another person in order to keep actors safe.<\/p>\n

In another risky situation on set, Dano revealed <\/a>that Kinnear also broke a traffic law during rehearsals for the sake of pulling a prank on Arkin.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember the second the van took off from the production office \u2014 with Greg driving \u2014 Alan said, \u2018I have to pee,\u2019\u201d Dano, 42, recalled, according to People. \u201cAnd Greg refused to pull over. It was a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dano added that Kinnear drove through \u201ca full red light,\u201d he said, or \u201cclose to a red light if not one. You didn\u2019t want to give Alan the chance to get out of the van to go, and so you blew right through it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe cast of 2006 hit ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ reunited at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival (Getty)<\/p>\n

Kinnear previously opened up about the risks on the set of Little Miss Sunshine during a 2022 appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cYou can count every Michael Bay movie ever made, this is the most dangerous film ever made,\u201d he joked on the talk show, referring to the iconic action movie director.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody was wearing seatbelts,\u201d Kinnear said. He added that they \u201cdidn\u2019t have clearance on the highway\u201d to drive with \u201cbillions of dollars of cargo,\u201d jokingly referencing his co-stars.<\/p>\n

He quipped: \u201cNobody is making this movie anymore!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[189115,76552,49,48,361,62824,289545,75,288738,17238,288735,289546,189116,289544,59378,10000,79083,289547,183,1895,24775],"class_list":["post-828825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-abigail-breslin","tag-arts-culture-and-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-color-image","tag-eccles-theatre","tag-entertainment","tag-film-and-television-screening","tag-film-industry","tag-film-screening","tag-greg-kinnear","tag-little-miss-sunshine","tag-park-city-utah","tag-paul-dano","tag-photography","tag-sundance-film-festival","tag-toni-collette","tag-usa","tag-utah","tag-vertical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}