Mara Wilson 1994 "Today Show" interview

[@trashtvinternational]

That's just lovely so mature when she says "I might not wanna be an actress the rest of my life" and eventually she did indeed leave Hollywood

[@katiejohnston988]

She sure kept her word and was ahead of her time. It’s like she knew very early on that acting was something she’d eventually grow out of and did not have to be her whole life.

[@MayaJagger]

It's a lot to expect a 7 year old to have decided on a set path. I don't know was as good an answer as any of the answers she gave :)

[@jqmieeeee]

she was very mature for her age and the fact that she lost her mom at a very young age mus

[@martagorricho]

Hey we are in 2021

[@whosanamy]

@@martagorricho hi! finally someone who is in 2021

[@champagnesupernova4081]

So smart and mature for her age....ADORABLE.

[@margaretoneill4642]

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[@margaretoneill4642]

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[@margaretoneill4642]

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[@margaretoneill4642]

ethan lol 😀😀😀

[@margaretoneill4642]

Champagne Supernova types 7, but I have a great time to do so. it is a bit. I will not be able the same as the first time. it is a 9. I will not

[@BloodAndGutsTV]

Such an intelligent and articulate little girl.

[@michaelgill2105]

Playbackjunkie very much so

[@MikeJ2023]

Playbackjunkie but she's not a little girl she's 30.

[@lake-om5ss]

She really was.

[@kakoroa.biriim3843]

@@MikeJ2023 Yes it is 30 years old

[@addisonkrupa7809]

MikeJ 2016 she was a little girl in this video bruh

[@athenalopez417]

the first child actor that doesn't sound annoying in an interview

[@LilyBelton123]

OMG YES

[@erin-roseoneill1142]

Athena your so rude

[@erin-roseoneill1142]

Your annoying

[@darcyi8828]

@@erin-roseoneill1142 we would like you to keep it to yourself:)

[@erin-roseoneill1142]

@@darcyi8828 Would you aww to bad

[@kylietokaji3799]

aww poor thing loosing her mum at such a long age 😕 she is very brave.. She looks abit nervous and a little sad.

[@known_film4081]

I understand. I just noticed the other comments also saying this.

[@superchic150]

for those wondering Her mother Suzie Wilson passed when she was 9 from breast cancer

[@katefevre6222]

@@superchic150 she was 8 and filming Matilda at the time

[@KeKe4Christ]

Well at this time she hadn’t lost her mom. Her mom unfortunately passed while filming Matilda, but being the sweet brave girl she was, she kept filming ❤️

[@alaurahwillow155]

@@katefevre6222 She passed after Matilda had finished filming but before they had finished editing it. They were able to put together a rough copy of it so her mum could watch it before she passed.

[@valerie1686]

I SWEAR I WASNT LIKE THAT WHEN I WAS 7 OMG- SHES SO MATURE AND INTELLIGENT

[@jbnjojobrown5869]

She plays Matilda as well

[@jbnjojobrown5869]

I love that I'm 7 now I'm 8 dis year

[@valerie1686]

@@jbnjojobrown5869 i know

[@emeliah5639]

I was a weird 7. I'm 9 now and I'm still weird 🤔🤔🤔

[@biswakumarb]

she is so cute. she is my favourite child actress

[@classicgirlchildstarsoftva2839]

Yes she is so very cute and adorable,and she is a favorite of mine too. Thanks for commenting, its very much appreciated.

[@michaelgill2105]

Mine too

[@katiejohnston988]

Yes, I agree. She’s definitely one of the most genuine actresses I’ve come across and who grew up to be rather normal. Hard to find that with many young stars like this.

[@Luispbringstheheat]

She looks like she woulda made an excellent anne frank

[@klassicalmuzik]

I think she auditioned for the movie Anne Frank the Whole Story, but Hannah Taylor Gordon got the part. She did well though

[@Luispbringstheheat]

Really whered u hear that

[@klassicalmuzik]

Luis Perea One of the producers said it in an interview for i think it was entertainment weekly. I read it around the time of the 53rd Emmy Awards when Gordon was nominated for an Emmy for the movie. I remember reading that they looked all over places like America, Canada, and Europe to find the perfect actress for the role and one of the American actresses who auditioned was Mara Wilson.

[@Luispbringstheheat]

What a loss just imagine how much more famous she would've been if she got the part maybe a nomination

[@michaelgill2105]

I can totally see that

[@homieblossom]

omg she is talking like an adult, most child actors are very smart and intelligent or they couldnt do what they do, it is sad to see how some have turned out as adults, but mara wilson turned out to be an well endowed young woman

[@cdfbrown]

homieblossom Are you sure 'well endowed' was what you were going for there? :P

[@tankgirl9324]

Odd choice of words, I agree.

[@michaelgill2105]

She is smart and very talented

[@9262XYZ]

Nonsense. She's a B-cup at best.

[@katiejohnston988]

So nice to see she is still just like this 7 year old Mara we are seeing here more or less. She didn’t go off the rails or get into drugs like a lot of young Hollywood stars do. She still stayed sweet and innocent. Maybe retiring from acting at 13 had something to do with this. Perhaps it gave her the freedom to just live life as a normal teenager?

[@gandalf7262]

90's are the last good years of Humanity. MARK MY WORDS

[@celestemassarenti469]

Absolutely bro, absolutely

[@abi-gailboothe2633]

I'm a 2000s kid and I have to honestly agree with you. Those were the good old days, too bad I didn't experience it myself

[@vincentcasing3639]

Yeah I agree. It was the time of my childhood and still remembering it. It was fun.

[@Hobohouser]

I know right!

[@zzakkkgzasfgg4780]

@@celestemassarenti469 فبلم ما😂😂😂

[@Rose32285]

She always, always talked about being a writer. I remember her telling Rosie O'Donnell the same thing. It's amazing how some kids just show that passion from a very early age. I've read her stuff, and she truly has a way with words, more so than many published novelists. I'm not at all surprised that she started writing as early as she did. She just always knew. Good for her!

[@zefanyae]

Rose32285 she just wrote a book

[@alberteshun2802]

3:18 her reaction was so real. that's my favorite moment in ALL her movies

[@Rowiiexx]

She's so adorable but WHY is the interviewer calling her mora?!

[@classicgirlchildstarsoftva2839]

Yes she is so very adorable and, I too cannot figure out why she is calling her "Mora", that's so strange.

[@Rowiiexx]

Classic Girl Child Stars of tv and Film and she's too sweet and polite to say "IT'S MARA!!" lol She's just lovely my fave actress when I was a kid :)

[@kathylopez748]

+Classic Girl Child Stars of tv and Film the interviewer is saying mara but it sounds lie that because she has a little accent

[@granolacat4082]

Rowiiexx that's her real name

[@terminalfrost3645]

Shae Mac they know, they are talking about the interviewer say 'Mora' instead of Mara.

[@SweedishDelight]

Such a cute kid and is very down to earth as an adult, love her!

[@mebethan]

she is so mature for her age but a tiny part of me wanted her to say "It's Mara" at the end when the interviewer had been calling her Mora the whole time

[@HannahChaseGoddess]

What an adorable sweetheart she was. Aww.

[@Aleksandr920907]

She is still an dorable sweetheart till this day:)

[@chalronbjork4766]

So mature for a 7 year old...

[@user-cnfan]

ur too dumb for a human

[@user-cnfan]

I was her age 3 years ago. I was smarter

[@sh11y77]

@@user-cnfan bahha ur still 10 lmao

[@buffsandwich0]

@@user-cnfan Oh yes, because 3 years ago was such a long time :/

[@Jeremy-sj3pr]

She’s literally smarter than a considerable amount of adults that I know. Also, Katie Couric looks so young here.

[@natashakershaw5581]

She looks older than 7 here. Hard to believe it was before Matilda.

[@flwrgrl13]

It was, Matilda came out in 96. This interview was done in 94 :)

[@danielleblackman8695]

I think she actually looks younger. Like around 6. Because if you think about it, in Matilda, she was playing a 6 year old, and looked much older.

[@jamesscott1811]

She looks 5 and sounded like she was 16

[@Saffie15]

KZbin putting this in my recommended 6 years later: 😋😌 *and I ain't complaining*

[@rahimahsheikh5289]

7 years

[@itsrejoice5437]

Yes I ain’t complaining too 😌🖐

[@cw2541]

She’s so adorable!! I met her a few years ago and she was so kind! Love ya Mara!!!

[@leenorecorder]

I've been obsessed with everything Mara has been in since I've seen Matilda, that movie/book is one of my definite favorites and will be forever. Does it bother anyone else how the interviewer says Mara like Mora?

[@thatlittlenerdy]

Leen A so much -_-

[@vlogsrecipeswbellabree1641]

1:31 she is so sweet omg

[@mozsmith2121]

She's so cute and very smart. And she knew exactly what she wanted to do in her future. She is a good writer today. I need to buy her book.

[@AR-sy4xv]

what a very smart little girl always loved her. most child stars are very introverted or shy in interviews but Mara is very expressive and opinionated.

[@Rose32285]

So glad I found this after reading a reference to it in a recent interview with Mara. She was adorable! Very smart for her age, but also very much a real child. Well spoken but also a little shy, and certainly well mannered. I love how she always had perspective and goals way beyond acting, even as a 7-year-old. She was the same way on the Rosie O'Donnell Show at age 9.

[@feligonzalez5222]

She is a true real life Matilda!

[@StacyFrancis94]

She is just the most adorable little thing here oh my God.

[@BatelSkater]

When she said she was 7, my heart dropped.. Too much pressure on a young kid... she was always ahead of her time

[@egabel3295]

Such a sweet child. So glad Mara is doing what she loves in life now.

[@Raven-dc7cw]

She is too cute! I've loved her since Matilda. I noticed she kept looking off camera like someone was spoon feeding her lines or telling her what to say.

[@VanessasDailyJournal]

I know. She seemed nervous and awkward. She probably was being fed what to say. Adorable child, though, and well poised.

[@PNellyok]

She’s so intelligent

[@NaeemAmin]

Such a lovely interview and she said at that age that she won't be an actress her whole life. She was smart then and she's smart now :) I loved the way interviewer was questioning her and treating her with respect and not trying to feed her words.

[@TheEllaGia]

This interview breaks my heart. You can see the pain she’s in from losing her mother and that she’s struggling through this interview.

[@superchic150]

This was before her mother passed

[@TheEllaGia]

Oh wow , you’re right!

[@missquinn861]

Her mother died in 1996.

[@ndlamont01]

Umm...this was years before she lost her mom. Her mom died just before Matilda was about to be released. She was sick while filming and when it was done, Danny brought her mother a copy of the unfinished movie so her mother could see it before she died.

[@KeKe4Christ]

Um this is way before she lost her mom, I don’t know what sadness you see but it’s not from losing her mom.

[@FCBayernKiller95]

While I was struggling to get out a straight coherent sentence with 7, she just talks like a 20 year old.. thank you for shattering my confidence xD

[@naomikwant1167]

OMG- She's so mature and ADORABLE!

[@alliehenke9091]

God the interviewer kept saying her name wrong even after she corrected her 😑

[@zzakkkgzasfgg4780]

الله فيلم

[@tannerfamily9307]

She looks so nervous 💞

[@Vitaliuz]

*"Be truthful. Don't be phoney."*

[@hayleighbotha983]

she is so adorb and i love the way she speaks

[@playboy_zup1132]

I’m watching this in 2021

[@user-kz1tl5pi2k]

Same

[@stavrosk.2868]

What a genuine, articulate, intelligent and smart kid. Only 7. People like her give hope.

[@ultapulta5614]

Her voice is so cute and adorable 🤗

[@annarosanelli6558]

She keeps looking over at somebody the whole time during the interview she looked sad and at times it looked like she was tearing up

[@stephanie444999]

I thought that too and made me worried for her 😢

[@AWalkingHat]

I listened to an audio version of her autobiography "Where Am I Now" last summer. She sadly had to deal with rejection later on in her acting career because she didn't grow up to look like a Hollywood model-like star. I'm glad she does write as she'd planned. But she had to suffer a lot of loss and struggles with mental health, losing the faith she is speaking of in this interview.

[@robotikempire]

Jeeze she can't even say her own guest's name correctly.

[@peterclifford8305]

She was just a great kid, now she's amazing!

[@AD-kv9kj]

Looks like the interviewer was modelling herself on the mom from Home Alone...

[@visionist7]

KEVIN!!

[@Brandonrouthsniece94]

She’s so adorable!!!

[@FreeTheTrolls]

Wow! She’s a writer now. Great head on her shoulders! Good job Mom and Dad!

[@bo988ttyl]

Oh my God she's so adorable

[@vintageshiine8320]

I loved this movie, it was so good!

[@aaronjones7260]

shes just so cute!! coincidently she did grow up to become a very successful author and playwrite :)

[@9262XYZ]

Yeah, I don't think so. Name me her well-known books and plays.

[@KeizerHedorah]

Interviewer: " so the obscure actress from 100 years ago, would you like to grow up to be like her?"

[@rubyscott7570]

I don’t know why but she always comes across as British to me. I always think of her as English and the way she speaks I think is a sort of posh English dialect hehe :) But I just wanted to say what a lovely, intellectual, smart, talented girl she is. I really hope she’s had a good life and will continue to do so. ❤️

[@immyplays909]

Me watching this 6 years later

[@charlietango5163]

She looked very tired here. But she is such a little treasure.

[@zen3005onroobet]

So intelligent and talented! Look at her now, grown up to be amazing and hey she's now a writer!

[@laylaghiuzan2465]

Anyone else watching this in 2021 and reading the comments from over 6years ago 😂

[@trulycarly]

Omg I watched Matilda yesterday! 😳

[@sharb4274]

She is so matur and humble.

[@Brandonrouthsniece94]

OMG like when I was 7 I was barely potty trained, she speaks like a 20 year old!!!

[@chip_thegame7872]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how adorable is she?

[@liahhx7944]

Is her? That doesn’t make any sense😭😭you mean how adorable she is not is her are you dumb?😐

[@floral-smoke]

Her name is MAR-uh, not MOR-uh, that's awful, though I know she's not meaning to be disrespectful, it is

[@sunnysandwich.]

it's an accent

[@margaretoneill4642]

krissjay heuristics the first to see you in the next few months. this is an ideal world. it was the only thing that is the first to review. I am a little more about this, and a half hours ago save the children of Israel. 746

[@margaretoneill4642]

TheOneAndOnlyMe92

[@margaretoneill4642]

Sunny Sandwich generally , I have been a long time, and the other side of the dead, and the other side 10897 😀😀

[@cibida1]

Aaron Schula Not all Americans have the same accent

[@kpredd13]

she is like a tiny little grandma

[@jaydubbs6123]

She was so cute when she was little. :)

[@olgaparush]

This lady was very gentle to Mara - I’m quiet surprised. She asked her very good meaningful questions

[@calvinlam7272]

Even as a kid, Mara’s wise beyond her years!

[@andreasa8486]

It's great seeing that she actually did what she always wanted to do! She wanted to be a writer since she was a kid!

[@julissa6715]

There’s just something about the way she presents herself that makes her sound so intelligent. It seems like her mind is somewhere else when she speaks. I find that kind of action common in children who are very intelligent. She seems like the kind of child that grabs concepts easily. Exactly like Matilda.

[@alvarez321]

She was so adorable. Reminds me of my niece.

[@bo988ttyl]

She's so cute❤️😍😅

[@bananaroblox9937]

Ikr

[@danielandlucycartoonsmadne5885]

Mara doesn’t just play Matilda, she IS Matilda!!

[@celebritydentist9975]

She is Exactly like Matilda!! (I don’t mean she looks like her bc she is her but she is literally as grown up as her) if you know what I mean?

[@chj113]

She’s smarter than me when I was seven 😐😮

[@christinapyrros72]

Love u Mara in Miracle On 34th Mrs Dobutfire and Matilda and Simple Wish

[@wanderlust62]

What I always loved about Mara is she is just a child... no "acting", genuinely herself. Talented, intelligent and so sweet...

[@Imamuslim906]

Cna we Appreciate KZbin gave this on our recommended page and this video was made six

[@maniacacademyxx2303]

She was so cute back then AWHHHH

[@dracomalfoy5019]

Omg she’s so cute

[@myfathersdaughter6983]

Katie curic makes her feel tense. Jay lemon rocked it

[@ioannagiannia1742]

My god, such a sweet girl!

[@trevorgwelch7412]

In 2021 She is 34 years old ... I wonder how she is and if she is still acting 💖🌹✨

[@arfasaiyed1478]

On my recommended page 6 years later......

[@christinaxeni8444]

Mara foretold her future in this interview! :D

[@bunnybrogaming1733]

She played Matilda in The movie Matilda! I love that movie! Shes to adorable!

[@gamingwithjadeah9038]

Soooo cute and her tooth that sticks out is soooo cute☻︎☻︎☻︎☻︎

[@mmmmmarlie]

Why is this on my recommended 5 years later?

[@kirbyannie_]

right😭

[@mmmmmarlie]

I love Mara Wilson but WHYYYY

[@Jakaylapaul]

Who's whaching in 2021😆😆😆😆

[@ghostie7790]

omg how cute!!

[@azluan]

This girl is unique, I bet she would've been one of the greatest and most talented actresses but it's her choice.

[@visionist7]

A little golden statue may have been in her future

[@crazygamer2613]

Aww 🥰 she’s so sweet 🥲 and very smart

[@smag3989]

She very beautiful and kind

[@4crystal_]

*me watching this and it was made 7 years ago..* wow now she is in Matilda and more wow

[@helenaxoxoxo1404]

Bless her

[@bethanycook8124]

I wonder if she was having a bad day that day she seems off..like I'm over this!! Maybe she was tired of interviewing..

[@leelacharley4728]

She handled that interview better than any A-list, Oscar winning actor/actress. impressive

[@wowsjsjakaakwezkkrusjsjhis6023]

Awww shes so cute ❤️❤️❤️

[@essayem3776]

Aww! She’s lovely!

[@lukevest8762]

7 years old and so smart.