‘I know about sex!’: Mrs Doubtfire child star Mara Wilson’s embarrassing onset moment
MARA Wilson, who played the cute younger daughter in Mrs Doubtfire, is still cringing about something she told the cast and crew while filming the 1993 flick.
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MARA Wilson, who played the cute younger daughter in Mrs. Doubtfire, is still cringing about something she told the cast and crew while filming the 1993 flick.
The now 28-year-old recounts the embarrassing moment in her upcoming memoir Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame, saying she’d just been given the “sex talk” by her mother.
The following day, a six-year-old Wilson bounced around set, ecstatic to share her knowledge.
“I wasn’t focusing on the scene. I was bubbling with excitement, because I knew this thing, this big open secret, and I could not keep it in any longer,” she shares in an excerpt from the book.
The child star ended up asking one of the hairdressers on set if she’d ever “done it” — and then broke out into song.
“As soon as she walked away I announced in a singsong voice, I KNOW ABOUT SE-EX! I KNOW ABOUT SE-EX!’” she writes.
“Instantly, I felt humiliated, and worst of all, I knew I had brought it all on myself. I thought I might start crying.”
After Robin Williams told director Chris Columbus what happened, Wilson’s new-found knowledge was worked into the scene where she helps on-screen mum Sally Field get dressed for her birthday party.
“You know, Mara, if you want, you can tell Sally her dress is sexy,” the director told her.
Originally published as ‘I know about sex!’: Mrs Doubtfire child star Mara Wilson’s embarrassing onset moment