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Mara Wilson, who as a child actor performed in’ 90 s classics such as Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire, has opened up about some of the darker aspects of being in the limelight at such a young age.
In an op-ed for The New York Times, titled The Lies Hollywood Tells About Little Girls, Wilson reflected on the media narrative around Britney Spears, and how she could in some way relate.
Now 32, Wilson has detailed some of the more disturbing things she had to deal with as a young performer, including having 50 -year-old boys mailing words claiming to be’ in love’ with her.
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Recalling this period of her life, Wilson spoke of check teen performers being sexualised’ on the covers of fellow mags or in disturbing music videos’ and deciding that was never going to be for her.
Wilson wrote:’ I have now been sexualized regardles, and I hated it. I largely acted in kinfolk movies — the remake of Miracle on 34 th Street, Matilda, Mrs. Doubtfire. I never appeared in anything more uncovering than a knee-length sundress. This was all intentional: My parents anticipated I would be safer that mode. But it didn’t work.’
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People had been asking me,’ Do you have a sweetheart ?’ in interviews since I was 6. Reporters asked me who I studied the sexiest actor was and about Hugh Grant’s arrest for soliciting a prostitute.
It was cute when 10 -year-olds transported me words saying they were in love with me. It was not when 50 -year-old servicemen did. Before I even turned 12, there is indeed images of me on foot fetish websites and photoshopped into child pornography. Each time, I felt ashamed.
Hollywood has resolved to tackle harassment in service industries, but I was never sexually molested on a film set. My sexual harassment ever came at the entrusts of the media and the public.
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Wilson has previously written about her complicated tie-in with Hollywood in her 2016 notebook Where Am I Now ?, where she detailed her decision to quit acting in 2000 to follow other pursuits.
Although Wilson has made appearances in TV supports in recent years, including Broad City and BoJack Horseman, Wilson has now made a name for herself as a writer, with her project having previously appeared in publications such as McSweeney’s, Reductress, Cracked and The Toast.
If you’ve been affected by any of these issues and want to speak to someone in confidence regarding the welfare of a child, contact the NSPCC on 0808 800 5000, 8am-10pm Monday to Friday, 9am-6pm weekends. If you are a child searching counselling and support, announcement Childline for free on 0800 1111.
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