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"There was even a rumour on IMDb that I had died of a broken neck in CT"

posted 8 years ago by Satan2016
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Nice picture of her today, looks better than her IMDB profile.

The subject is a quote from the article, where she talks about all the hate on the web.

‘Being cute just made me miserable’: Mara Wilson on growing up in Hollywood https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/sep/17/being-cute-mara-wilson-growing-up-hollywood
One day, age 12, I made the mistake of looking myself up on the internet. A website called Mr Cranky wrote that I was popping up in every movie these days because I would soon be entering “the awkward years, when she’ll be old enough to have breasts, but not old enough to show them legally”. I folded my arms over my chest just reading that, and even as an adult it makes me shudder. Who did they think they were, talking about a preteen girl’s breasts?

[–] hppg 8 years ago

Yeah I remember that, maybe not at the time but shortly after. It was placed on IMDb as a death and screenshotted. I think they've tightened up a bit on what they accept now. A guy who ran a MW fan page back then kept a page on it which I think he thought would explain how it was a terrible joke but probably just drew more attention to it. At the time I didn't even consider how much it must have affected her :-( I just assumed celebs would ignore this stuff. But of course she was very young. I just had a look for the screenshot and I can't see it.