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Felt sexualized” as a kid

posted a year ago by jk90us (5558)
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Said she often felt “sexualized” as a kid but emphasized that it wasn’t necessarily on-set incidents that made her feel this way. Instead, she said, the media and adult fans were the culprits.

Grown male fans would regularly try to contact her as a child and she saw fake photos of herself on porn sites.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matilda-star-mara-wilson-says-she-found-photos-of-herself-on-porn-sites-as-a-kid_n_6464f6e7e4b0ab2b97e4bf3a

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[–] stickman38 (3019) a year ago

This could give her career a little boost. It's kind of strange that she only gets animated voice-over roles now. I've always thought she was a pretty good actress.

We'll see if this works.

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[–] Cognoscente (2480) a year ago

She doesn't like watching herself: https://twitter.com/MaraWilson/status/223415100508344321

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[–] stickman38 (3019) a year ago

Ahhhh, that explains why she only does voice-overs. Fair enough....

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[–] Cognoscente (2480) a year ago

Having said that, there are a lot of working screen actors who don't like watching themselves anyway. In her case, it seems like the gif and meme culture really took away from her love of on-screen acting.

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[–] stickman38 (3019) a year ago

Why did that happen? All the gifs and memes I've seen of her have been ok. Although, I will admit, there's an awful lot of them on the internet. lol...

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[–] Cognoscente (2480) a year ago

That's the thing - being bombarded with tweets where people use her face like an emoji in a funhouse mirror sort of way.

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[–] jk90us (5558) 15 days ago

Neither do other people apparently.

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[–] legnadibrom (5782) a year ago

*the left were the culprits

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[–] jk90us (5558) a year ago

They always are. Create horrible events so they can make money reporting them.

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[–] Zinger (2195) 15 days ago

Well, she certainly doesn't need to worry about that as an adult.

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[–] jk90us (5558) 15 days ago

😄😄😄😄

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[–] strntz (11004) 15 days ago

Considering she looks like a muppet, that's hard to believe.

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