Dahl estate's bitter disappointment with both the 1971 version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as well as The Witches from 1990 made them initially bar the idea of a Matilda movie.
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Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman and the whole cast and crew were pillars of strength while Wilson faced the terrible trauma of losing her mother to cancer just six months after the film wrapped