Fact: Hit Broadway show MATILDA THE MUSICAL is set to be adapted for the big screen. The stage adaptation of Roald Dahl's bestselling children's book of the same name follows a previous movie version in 1996 which starred Mara Wilson, Danny Devito and Rhea Perlman.
Quote: "There were times when Haley Joel Osment and I would be in the dining hall together. I remember we would kind of eye each other and then look away. It's like, a law of physics that two former child stars can't spend that much time in the same area or something will explode." Former child star Mara Wilson avoided fellow actor Haley Joel Osment during her days studying at New York University.
Fact: Former child star Mara Wilson is writing her first young adult novel, while her first play, Sheeple, will appear at the New York International Fringe Festival later this summer (13).