‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Actress Reveals Robin Williams’ Kind Gesture During Filming

Robin Williams performed a protector in Mrs. Doubtfire, each on and off-screen.

In a unused reunion interview with castmates from the crash 1993 film, Matthew Lawrence and Mara Wilson, on Lawrence’s Brotherly Love Podcast, kid megastar Lisa Jakub recalled a while when the overdue comic, who died in 2014, caught up for her.

All the way through her 4 months enjoying Lydia Hillard at the eager of Mrs. Doubtfire, Jakub, 45, used to be nonetheless attending highschool in Canada, the place she had labored out a “pre-internet” device by which she “would mail my schoolwork back and forth to the school,” she recalled.

“We were a couple months into filming, and my school in Canada sent a note saying, you know, ‘This isn’t working for us anymore. Don’t come back,’” Jakub mentioned, including, “I was devastated.”

“It was just so heartbreaking because, you know, I had this life that was very unusual and that was the one normal thing,” she added.

Later the “heartbreaking” expulsion, Williams — who performed Daniel Hillard, father to Lydia within the film — noticed the way it affected Jakub, and made up our minds to do so, she recalled.

“The thing was, Robin saw that I was upset,” the kid megastar mentioned. “He asked me what was going on. I explained. He wrote a letter to my principal saying that he, you know, wanted them to rethink this decision and that I was just trying to pursue my education and my career at the same time and could they please support me in this.”

And even though noble, William’s efforts have been in the end unsuccessful, Jakub mentioned.

“This foremost were given the letter, framed the letter, put it up within the workplace, and didn’t question me to come back again,” she informed her former costars. “Amazing.”

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Upcoming within the reunion episode, she additionally remembered what it used to be like with the enduring actor on eager — a some distance scream from her earlier reviews as a kid megastar.

“I were running for a decade once I began Doubtfire, however we had at all times worn a script, proper, so I knew when it used to be my flip to talk and I may say my order,” she mentioned. “And then you go on set with Robin and it’s like, ‘Who the f— knows what’s gonna happen now?’ ”

She persisted, “I had to be present with the other person in the room and I actually had to listen and then just respond wow and it really was so much more meditative than what I had done before, which always felt really rote in, like, ‘I know what’s going to happen.’ ”

“And all of a sudden you know we’re on set and you’re like, ‘I am so lost,’ but you know you’re just going to go with it,” she added, “because he’s Robin and you can trust him.”

Jakub, Lawrence and Wilson additionally reunited in a photograph posted on social media Wednesday, Might 1.

“The sisters had so much fun hanging out with the brothers. @marawilson and @matthewlawrence still feel like my siblings- even 30 years after filming Mrs Doubtfire,” Jakub started the caption of her publish.

She persisted, “And @andrewlawrence and @joeylawrence are simply a part of the prolonged community. I had a superior past doing the @officialbrotherlylovepod and will’t wait to percentage it with you. ♥️