You might not want to get your hopes up about a second Matilda movie.
Mara Wilson, who played the titular character in the 1996 original, recently spoke outl at the Fanboy Expo in Knoxville, Tenn. about whether she thinks there should be a sequel.
“People always ask me about doing a Matilda 2. And that could be possible,” she said, via People.
“But one thing that people always say is, ‘Oh, maybe it could be Matilda’s daughter.’ And I have some issues with that, because I think Matilda’s powers come from her adversity,” she went on to say.
“They come from the bad things that she went through, and the whole point is that she overcame these things. And she found power in educating herself and in making friends with these people who were really lovely … And so I don’t think Matilda would raise her daughter to be in a position where she developed those powers to protect herself,” Mara went on to say.
“Also, and this is a tricky question, but who would Matilda marry? Who’s good enough for Matilda? Matilda’s such an awesome character that I can’t imagine who she would marry and have kids with, you know?”
Mara also revealed that she used to be annoyed getting called Matilda.
“I used to be a little annoyed when people would call me Matilda because I was like, ‘No, I’m Mara. It felt almost a little bit like being called by your sister’s name — your much cooler, smarter sister’s name. And I was like, oh, no, I’m not as cool as she is,” she admitted.
“You know, Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia, she said, ‘I feel like me and Princess Leia have kind of merged over the years.’ And I sort of feel like that too,” she added of coming to accept the assocation.
“I feel like Matilda has been a character that I looked up to, and Matilda would do things that I do. She would talk about mental health. She would talk about books. She would be working. She would be writing, she would be loving books and doing stuff for public libraries and things like that. And I do all of those things. Those things are very important to me. So Matilda has really taught me a lot of good lessons. And I think I’ve become a lot like her in my own way.”
Danny DeVito had teased a Matilda project a few years ago.
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