Matilda’s Bruce Bogtrotter is all grown up – and actor Jimmy Karz now looks totally different with a completely different job.
It’s been 27 years since the hit film was released on screens and fans, of course, will remember the iconic chocolate cake-eating scene.
In the blockbuster flick based on Roald Dahl’s novel, headmistress Ms. Trunchbull forces Bruce to eat a gigantic cake in front of the school.
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Following his role in Matilda, Jimmy bagged a part in The Wedding Singer in 1998, alongside Drew Barrymore.
But nowadays, cake-eating champ Jimmy looks totally different, and he’s even quit the world of showbiz and fame.
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Jimmy was just 12 years old when played Bruce, and like his co-star Mara Wilson, who played Matilda, he has left the acting world behind.
The former actor, now 38, graduated as a doctor in 2017 at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
According to Jimmy he was drawn to osteopathic medicine because it focuses on “helping the whole patient”.
During an interview with medical publication The Do, the Matilda star spoke about movie and acting.
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“That scene took about three weeks to film… I had to be on set all day, and I had to wear the same outfit every day. The chocolate was already encrusted on this shirt I was wearing.
“For continuity’s sake, every day I had to have the chocolate painted on my face the way it was painted on the day before.
“I despised the smell of chocolate for a few weeks after that. I realised then that acting is not easy. There’s a lot of skill and professionalism involved.”
Mara has also been open about her time as a child actor, and the pressure that fame can ensue at a young age.
The actress, who also starred in Miracle on 34th Street and Mrs Doubtfire, rose to fame as a child star and was best known for playing Matilda.
Speaking in a TV interview with Today Extra, Mara said: “It hurt to hear adult critics saying things against me. It felt very unfair and very hard. There was really a lot of pressure on me, I felt, from the outside world.”
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She also spoke about some of the negative experiences she saw during her time in Hollywood.
As well as receiving “inappropriate” messages, Mara revealed she also came across images of her head superimposed onto pornstar bodies.
She told the Guardian: “I had people sending me inappropriate letters and posting things about me online. I made the mistake of Googling myself when I was 12 and saw things that I couldn’t unsee.
“I don’t think you can be a child star without there being some kind of lasting damage.”
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