In a new interview, 'Mrs. Doubtfire' actress Lisa Jakub recalled Robin Williams advocating for her after her school kicked her out while she was filming the movie. Williams wrote a letter asking them to reconsider, but was ultimately unsuccessful.
Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned with the brand in 2022. Her work has previously appeared in digital publications like Paper Magazine and TV Insider., the actress was still attending high school in Canada, where she had worked out a “pre-internet” system in which she “would mail my schoolwork back and forth to the school,” she recalled.
“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 in the reunion episode, she also remembered what it was like with the iconic actor on set — a far cry from her previous experiences as a child star., but we had always used a script, right, so I knew when it was my turn to speak and I could say my line,” she said.
“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.”
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