The Mrs Doubtfire siblings enjoyed a fun reunion this week, 31 years after the iconic comedy premiered.
Former child stars Matthew Lawrence, 44, Mara Wilson, 36, and Lisa Jakub, 45, who played the Hillard siblings, Chris, Natalie and Lydia in the 1993 film directed by Robin Williams and Sally Field, smiled as They were posing for a group photo.
Lisa wrote in a caption: ‘The sisters had so much fun hanging out with the brothers. @marawilson and @matthewlawrence still feel like my brothers, even 30 years after filming Mrs Doubtfire.’
‘We had a small meeting. 30 years later and my family, Mrs. Doubtfire, still feels like family.’
Wilson wrote: ‘How funny that the same week I went to San Francisco, I was able to meet up with my Doubtfire brothers!’
The Mrs Doubtfire siblings enjoyed a fun reunion this week, 31 years after the iconic comedy premiered, pictured here: Mara Wilson, 36, Matthew Lawrence, 44, and Lisa Jakub, 45.
The former child stars played the Hillard siblings, Chris, Natalie and Lydia, in the 1993 film directed by Robin Williams and Sally Field (pictured with Williams).
“It’s always a pleasure to see @lisa.jakub and @matthewlawrence, and always a lot of fun to be on @officialbrotherlylovepod,” referring to the podcast hosted by Matthew and brothers Joey Lawrence and Andrew Lawrence.
Based on the novel Madame Doubtfire, the 1993 film stars Robin as a voice actor named Daniel who gets divorced and loses custody of his children.
Daniel comes up with a crazy plan to see more of his little ones: turn into drag as a Scottish nanny and get hired by his ex-wife Miranda (Sally Field).
After decades of struggling with bipolar disorder and addiction, Robin committed suicide in 2014 at the age of 63 by hanging himself with a belt.
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the film’s release, its director Chris Columbus said with affection Business Insider he kept “four cameras” on at all times to “keep up” with Robin.
In fact, Robin was such a whirlwind of improvisation that Chris still has “972 boxes of footage” from Mrs. Doubtfire and hopes to use some of it in a documentary.
“Early on in the process, he said, ‘Hey, boss, the way I like to work, if you’re up for it, I’ll give you three or four scripted takes and then let’s play,'” Chris recalled.
‘By saying that, what he meant was that he wanted to improvise. And that’s exactly how we filmed every scene. We would have exactly what was written, and then Robin would appear and it would be something to behold.”
The trio posed with Matthew’s brothers Joey and Andrew as they teased an appearance on their podcast.
In the film, Robin plays a man with a harebrained plan to see more children: becoming a transvestite as a Scottish nanny and being hired by his ex-wife Miranda (Sally Field) (right).
Chris spared a thought for “poor script supervisor” Margaret de Jesus. ‘Remember, this is the early 1990s, she wasn’t writing what he said. She was writing it by hand and Robin was changing every take.
The filmmaker shared: “So Robin was going to a place where he couldn’t remember much of what he said. We would go to the script supervisor and ask her questions and sometimes she wouldn’t even understand everything. Often he would literally give us a completely different take than what we did in the written takes.’
He reflected: ‘If it were today, we would never finish. But back then, we were shooting film, so once we ran out of film in the camera, we’d tell Robin, “We’re out of film.” “That happened on several occasions.”
He said: ‘It got to the point where I had to shoot the whole film with four cameras to keep up. ‘None of us knew what he was going to say when he started, so I wanted a camera focused on the other actors to catch their reactions.’
Pierce Brosnan also starred in the film as Miranda’s new love interest, Stu.
In fact, Robin was such a whirlwind of improvisation that Chris still has “972 boxes of footage” from Mrs. Doubtfire, and hopes to use some of it in a documentary.
Chris noted that when it came to Robin’s co-stars, “Pierce Brosnan and Sally Field, it was pretty hard for them not to break character.”
In lifting the curtain on Robin’s creative process, Chris let slip two particular scenes that were the result of improvisation.
‘The whole restaurant sequence was incredible. “When Robin, playing Mrs. Doubtfire, loses his teeth in her drink, you can see the joy on Robin’s face, he almost smiles to himself because she came up with that,” she said.
The scene takes place when Miranda goes out to dinner with her boyfriend Stu (Pierce Brosnan), the kids, and Daniel dressed as Mrs. Doubtfire.
During a toast, Mrs. Doubtfire’s false teeth slide from Daniel’s mouth into his wine glass, leaving the adults at the table mortified.
Oops: Chris let slip two particular scenes that were the result of improvisation: one is the “restaurant sequence” when Mrs. Doubtfire “loses her teeth in her drink.”
How to do it: Without breaking character, try to remove the dentures from the wine with a fork, weakly joking: “Carpe dentum, grab the teeth.”
Without breaking character, he tries to remove the dentures from the wine with a fork, weakly joking: “Carpe dentum, grab the teeth.”
And the second one that stands out is what I call the pie in the face sequence. “It’s when Mrs. Sellner (Anne Haney) comes to Daniel’s apartment and he comes and goes like Mrs. Doubtfire and Daniel,” she continued.
‘When he’s in the bedroom putting on the Doubtfire costume, that was probably his hardest job in the movie. Verbally and physically. He was physically exhausted after doing that. I think we did 18 takes of that sequence.’
Chris revealed that he hopes to go back to his huge stash of Mrs. Doubtfire footage to put together a documentary about Robin’s trial.
“There are approximately 972 boxes of Doubtfire footage (footage we used in the film, outtakes, behind-the-scenes footage) in a warehouse somewhere and we’d like to hire an editor to go and look at all that footage,” he said. said.
‘We want to show Robin’s process. There’s something special and magical about how she did her work and I think it would be fun to delve into it.’
