Mara Wilson

Just to be clear.

Did you have a Miss Trunchbull type character at school or in your childhood?

Yes.

I did.

Yeah.

Okay.

You go first.

At one point.

Just to sort of like tell you off, sort of shake you around a bit or like to lead you somewhere.

We, the teacher who made the, I was terrified of her.

It didn't help that I'd been homeschooled till I was 11.

And so I went into school for the first time when I was 11, suddenly had other kids in my class and was getting kind of told off for the first time.

Cause mommy never told me off when I was being homeschooled.

didn't call her mommy um now you do but you did not then but there was one teacher um our art teacher mrs denny she was mean and i wasn't great at art and i certainly didn't get motivated to keep trying it out in her class from someone being mean to you from something mean to me but she i just always remember and she didn't just say this to me but it stuck with me

And I fucking love this because I'll always say it to people and they apologize, especially after a really horrific argument.

She'd say, if you were sorry, you wouldn't have done it in the first place.

And whenever someone apologizes to me for something or I hear someone apologizing to someone, I'll always interject with that most annoying statement.

Nonsensical bullshit you could ever say.

Christ.

Yeah.