People all over the world fell in love with Mara Wilson in the early 1990s when she played a lively little girl in hit movies like Mrs. Doubtfire and Miracle on 34th Street.
Wilson, who is now 37 years old, looked like she was going to have even more success on her birthday, July 24. However, as she got older, her role on TV changed, and she stopped being seen by most people.
When she thinks about her work, she says, “Hollywood was done with me.” People think you’re not useful if you’re not cute or pretty anymore.
When Mara Wilson, then five years old, played Robin Williams’ youngest child in Mrs. Doubtfire in 1993, she got paid a lot of money.
The actor, who is from California, has only been in ads before this big part. While she was still young, her career took a big turn when she was cast in one of Hollywood’s biggest hits.
Even though they were proud, my parents kept me grounded. If I said something like, “I’m the best!” my mom would correct me and tell me I was just an actress. Wilson, 37, says, “You’re a child.”
Soon after her first movie, she was cast as Susan Walker in the 1994 version of Miracle on 34th Street. Natalie Wood played the role in the original 1947 movie.
Wilson writes about her audition in an article for The Guardian. “I read my lines to the production team and told them I didn’t believe in Santa Claus.” “But I did believe in the tooth fairy, and I named mine after Sally Field,” she says, referring to the actor who won an Oscar for playing her mother in Mrs. Doubtfire.
Wilson played the magic girl in the 1996 movie Matilda, which also stars Danny DeVito and his wife, Rhea Perlman.
In the same year, her mother Suzie died of breast cancer.
Wilson talked about how sad she was and said, “I didn’t really know who I was.”I was someone else before and after that. Wilson talks about how painful it was for her to lose her mother: “She was like this omnipresent thing in my life.” “It was like too much for me,” she says. That’s all I wanted to do as a child, especially after my mother died. The young starlet admitted that she was “the most unhappy” and tired at the time, even though she was famous.
Wilson took on her last big part against her will when she was eleven years old, in the fantasy adventure movie “Thomas and the Magic Railroad” (2000). When she first read the story, she thought, “The characters were too young.” When I was eleven, I had a strong reaction to the writing.I felt bad. She says, “How cute, The Guardian.”
She wasn’t the only one who left Hollywood, though. As a teen, Wilson didn’t have many parts as he went through puberty and outgrew the “cute” stage.
She calls herself “just another awkward, nerdy, loud girl with bad teeth and bad hair whose bra strap was always showing.”
“I hadn’t been called cute or had my looks brought up in years, at least not in a good way,” she says of the time she was 13.
Wilson had to deal with the pressures of being famous and the difficulties of growing up in the public eye. She was deeply moved by how she looked changing.
She thinks, “I had this Hollywood idea that you’re not worth anything if you’re not cute or pretty anymore.” Because I directly blamed that for the end of my job. Even though I was tired of it and Hollywood was tired of me, being turned down is still painful.
Wilson, who is a writer now, put out her first book called “Where Am I Now? The book “True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame” came out in 2016.
The book talks about many things, from the lessons she learned about sex on the set of “Melrose Place” to the time she realized she wasn’t “cute” enough for Hollywood as a teenager. These pieces tell the story of her rise from unexpected fame to a more humble but happy obscurity.
She also wrote a biography called Good Girls Don’t, which is about her life as a young actress trying to live up to people’s standards.
She wrote for the Guardian that “being cute just made me miserable.” “I always thought that I would stop doing things, not the other way around.”
