A Mrs. Doubtfire star is sharing how the late Robin Williams went above and past for her, each on and off-screen.
On a current episode of the Brotherly Love podcast, alongside her Mrs. Doubtfire co-stars Mara Wilson and Matthew Lawrence, Lisa Jakub, who performed Lydia Hillard within the hit 1993 comedy, recalled Williams coming to her protection concerning a difficulty at her faculty.
Jakub stated she was nonetheless attending highschool in Canada whereas away for 4 months, filming Mrs. Doubtfire. “We have been going to arrange this technique, pre-internet, the place I’d mail my faculty work forwards and backwards to the college. We did that for some time,” she defined.
“As Matt properly remembers, we had tutoring, three hours of schoolwork on set day by day,” the actress continued. “We have been a few months into filming, and my faculty in Canada despatched a observe saying, ‘This isn’t working for us anymore, don’t come again.’ Yeah, ninth grade. I used to be devastated. It was simply so heartbreaking, as a result of I had this life that was very uncommon and that was the one regular factor.”
Nevertheless, Jakub stated as soon as Williams, who died in 2014, noticed the way it impacted her, he took issues into his personal fingers.
“It was a very tough factor,” she remembered. “The superb factor was Robin noticed that I used to be upset — he requested me what was happening. He wrote a letter to my principal saying that he needed them to rethink this choice and that I used to be simply making an attempt to pursue my schooling and profession on the identical time, and will they please help me on this.”
Although she significantly appreciated Williams’ efforts, they have been in the end unsuccessful. “The principal received the letter, framed the letter, put it up within the workplace, and didn’t ask me to come back again,” Jakub added. “Superb.”
Lawrence later added throughout the Mrs. Doubtfire reunion on the podcast that Williams additionally wrote a letter of advice to assist him get into the College of Southern California.
Within the Chris Columbus–directed movie, Jakub, Lawrence and Wilson play a trio of siblings. The film follows Williams, who disguises himself as a feminine housekeeper so he can spend time along with his youngsters held in custody by his former spouse, Miranda Hillard (Sally Area).
Mrs. Doubtfire not solely turned a field workplace success but in addition gained the very best make-up Oscar on the 1994 Academy Awards.