Guys, congratulations on the film.
It's it's fantastic.
Really wonderful.
Matilda is such a big deal for so many people,
and it's been adapted several times, but this one feels extra special.
How is it to be part of of this?
Because it feels like it's a really special film.
Quite a good time given everything that's going on in the world at the moment.
Well, there's a lot of hope in Matilda, isn't there?
Yeah, because she's so brave
and it feels like very surreal but amazing.
And it was an amazing experience, especially because it was like
my first ever big film and
and I just was really grateful that I got the part.
And I had such an amazing time meeting everyone and I made lots of new friends.
So, and Alisha's such a pro that you'd never know that when you watch the film
that this is a first
quite, quite ginormous film,
especially from the side watching it is, I have to say, it's a sentiment.
It's like epic.
Pretty, pretty straightforward.
I know when the the '96 film came out, one of the things that a lot of the kids
afterwards said about was how scared they were of Pam Ferris as Ms
Trunchbull, who in real life is such a lovely person.
And it's the same with Emma Thompson in this.
I mean, the first scene is just she is scary.
She's terrifying.
I can imagine you were a bit terrified.
But I want to go ask you both, because obviously
there's scenes as well with you that it's not.
She kind of disappears and she becomes this monster.
What was it like on set when you
when she was walking around in those next big boots?
Well, it was quite scary because she had like
like like all this suit and like lots of prosthetics and
but it was like definitely like two different people.
When they'd start filming, she'd switch into the character of Ms. Trunchbull
She would be quite scary.
But then when they'd say, like,
she'd switch back into and although she had all the prosthetic in it
when she talked to you, she wouldn't be scary because she was.
Emma underneath all of it, was she like extra sweet in the in between.
I can imagine that something
because she's such a lovely person that she was extra sweet in between.
She's so lovely.
It's funny when you see the whole Trunchbull, probably I'd say a third of it
as Emma, you know, in its entirety.
A lot of it's costume and shoes and prosthetics.
And there's a tiny Emma in there somewhere.
Yeah, she's got like an NFL shoulder size
and she got into a we knew she was in there somewhere.
She's in there somewhere. Yeah.
I mean, it's, it's one of the biggest books of all time.
Roald Dahls is such...
Why do you think this this one in particular is one that kind of
really has found an audience and generations keep going back to
not just his work, but Matilda.
It seems to be the one that everyone always keeps going back to.
I think because
I think because in spite of ourselves, we all sometimes feel on the outside.
And I think that's so
something that we all share, especially as kids.
And you take that into your adulthood as well.
Sorry to preempt doom on you. At least
you will take a bit of it into you all,
but hopefully not too much to the point where it's unhealthy.
But and so I think even and it was a you know, it was somebody who was very
who was older and wiser writing about childhood, Roald Dahl's book.
So they have all of the darkness and light and the really
beautiful reflections of what it is to be a child and how you
how you take that into adult life.
So I think they mean a lot to a lot of people for that reason.
Yeah, for sure.
And I read that Quentin Blake did some
some pictures when it turned 30 years old, I think about adult Matilda.
And he did.
an astrophysicist and as a world traveler
and as debate online about whether people actually want to see adult Matilda.
However, it should just be left
as like a child with and she's like Peter Pan where she stays the same age where
what would you guys say?
Well, I am playing her in an upcoming film.
I'm joking.
I wouldn't put it past you. Thank you.
But do you do you think there's that she's going to wait years away
for you to she's got to wait, you know, come back in ten, 15 years to do it.
Do a sequel like that would be like good.
I think it would be good to see Matilda's like an adult and like to see, like,
what happened in her life.
Like to see those are the characters, Miss Honey.
And even like while her parents are doing and like where Ms Trunchbull is.
And I, I think that would be really cool.
That would be good. Yes.
Let's all hope Miss Trunchbull is no longer with us.
Let's hope in the future.
That's how she's quite she's quite a terrifying character.
Well, you know, 20 years down the line, who knows?
She might never know.
A bad guy, bad people.
They do know stuff. They find a way to
go back into people's lives.
They know. Hi, guys. I wish you all the best of it.
It's a wonderful film. Thank you so much for your time today.
Thank you so much. Thanks very much. You.