Using minors to play a role in a film is not always easy. Despite resounding success, Mrs. Doubtfire also paid the price. So in the middle of filming, an actress was kicked out of school because she regularly missed classes. Robin Williams then tried to resolve the situation.
An ultimately useless letter
In the feature film, Lisa Jakub embodied at the time Lydia Hillard, the eldest daughter of the actor who tragically died almost ten years ago from here and Sally Field. In the podcast “Brotherly Love”, bringing together the three child heroes of 1993, the actress, now 45 years old, declared that she was expelled from high school at 15 because of the film, despite the remedial courses she could take. have on the film set.
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“I am canadian. I was going to high school in Canada, then I left for four months to shoot the film. We set up a system, before the Internet came along, where I would send my school work by mail at school. That’s what we did for a while,” she rewinds at first. “We were filming for a few months, and my school in Canada sent a note saying, ‘This isn’t working for us anymore, don’t come back.’ I was devastated. It was so heartbreaking, because I had a very unusual life, and it was the only normal thing.”
Robin Williams himself then took up the problem: “He wrote a letter to my director to tell him that he wanted him to reconsider his decision, that I was just trying to pursue my studies and my career at the same time, and that he could support me in this process. The director received the letter, framed, posted it in his office and didn’t ask me to come back. It’s incredible.”
