Robin Williams portrayed Daniel Hillard, father of Lisa Jakub, Mathew Lawrence and Mara Wilson in 1993 comedy ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’
Robin WIlliams stepped as much as assist Lisa Jakub after she was expelled from college whereas filming the long-lasting Mrs Doubtfire.
Mathew Lawrence reunited along with his on-screen sisters, Mara Wilson and Jakub within the newest episode of his podcast Brotherly Love, the place the previous actress make clear the considerate gesture by his on-screen dad.
“I’m Canadian. I used to be attending highschool in Canada, then I left for 4 months to movie the film [Doubtfire]”, she recalled, “We had been going to arrange this technique, pre-internet, the place I’d mail my college work backwards and forwards to the varsity”.
Nonetheless, the author shocked her former co-stars when she revealed she was later “thrown out of highschool”.
Regardless of three hours of onset tutoring for baby actors, Jakub finally acquired a notice from college which acknowledged, “‘This isn’t working for us anymore, don’t come again’”.
“Yeah, ninth grade. I used to be devastated”, she expressed.
“It was simply so heartbreaking, as a result of I had this life that was very uncommon, and that was the one regular factor”.
Nonetheless, to her rescue got here the Lifeless Poets Society actor as she reminisced, “The wonderful factor was Robin noticed that I used to be upset, he requested me what was occurring,” earlier than writing a letter to her principal asking to “rethink her determination” and explainding that she’s simply “attempting to pursue schooling and profession on the identical time”.
To her disbelief, she disclosed, “The principal acquired the letter, framed the letter, put it up within the workplace, and didn’t ask me to come back again. Wonderful.”
Though Jakub did not get her highschool diploma, she finally acquired her GED and later graduated from College in 2010.
