All of the girls acting as participants in the “Little Miss Sunshine” beauty pageant, except Abigail Breslin, were veterans of real beauty pageants. They wore the same costumes, including hair and makeup, and performed the same talent routines as they had in their real-life pageants.
…given what I’ve seen of child beauty pageants, this makes sense. It’s disturbing how accurate those scenes were.
(Source: filmtrivia)