For Mara Wilson, playing Matilda was not constantly wonderful.
In truth, the starlet just recently assessed the pressures she felt as a kid star, particularly around having the ability to measure up to her titular character in the 1996 movie Matilda when fulfilling fans.
“I saw that they were disappointed that I wasn’t as smart, pretty, nice, as they expect you to be,” Mara informed The Guardian in an interview released Monday May15 “I think they were expecting me to be Matilda, and she’s wonderful, but she’s not real.”
“She’s brilliant in every single way. She’s smart, and kind and powerful,” the 35- year-old continued ofMatilda “Then they met me, this nerdy, awkward teenager who got angry sometimes, but couldn’t even channel her anger into powers.”
And she confessed frequently seemed like she was residing in her character’s shadow, just like “the way you would with a fabulous older brother or sister.”
Mara included, “I was never going to live up to that.”
