I starred in Matilda but I quit fame to be a writer and I love it | The Sun

MATILDA is one of the most nostalgic films of the 90s for many people of a certain generation.

It told the story of Matilda Wormwood, a little girl underappreciated by her cruel parents and tortured by evil headmistress Miss Trunchbull.

Using her psychic powers she gets her own back on them in many ways and is eventually adopted by caring teacher Miss Honey.

But despite the huge success of the movie – based on the novel by Roald Dahl – Mara Wilson, who played Matilda, has turned her back on acting.

Instead she works as a writer these days and insists it's something she always wanted to do.

Mara, 35, previously said: "Writing was always my secret desire. It was always something that in the back of my head I wanted to do.

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"I wrote a lot of stories on the sets of movies. On Matilda, I wrote several."

She has written for titles including Elle, The New York Times and Vanity Fair and released her memoir – Where Am I Now? – in 2016.

Mara – who was just nine-years-old when Matilda was released – is said to have officially quit acting in 2000.

The former actress, who also starred in Ms Doubtfire and Miracle on 34th Street, later revealed part of the reason.

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She said: "The rejection hurt because it had been just such a prominent part of my life for so long. It had been the thing that defined me.

"Writing I'd always loved. There's a saying – 'If you can live without it, you should'. And I found that I could."

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