16 Things You Never Knew About "Matilda"

Remember Matilda and how you desperately wished you had magical powers like she did? Or how you could have a teacher as sweet as Miss Honey? Or how eating an entire chocolate cake seemed like the best punishment ever? Us too. That’s why we’re taking a look back at the coolest things about the movie that we seriously had no idea about.

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Matilda is now 20 years old, but you wouldn’t be able to tell. It holds its own even after all these years. 

1. Matilda’s parents were played by Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman, who are actually married in real life. 

2. Agatha Trunchbull was played by Pam Ferris. She obviously acted mean and nasty during filming, but she acted the same way off camera so the children would be genuinely scared of her on-screen. 

Maybe she threatened to throw them in the chokey where not even the crows will find them? 

3. The same actress also played the dreadful Auntie Marge in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. 

It’s a shame Matilda didn’t use her powers to blow up the Trunch like this.