Michelle Trachtenberg didn’t have it easy as a kid. The actress, who was found dead Feb. 26 at age 39, was severely bullied in middle school, according to original “Matilda” star Mara Wilson. Wilson, 37, recently wrote an essay for Vulture about her friendship with Trachtenberg. They attended the same middle school in Los Angeles. Mara … Read more
Hopefully John Mara had Monday’s Ravens-Chargers game on mute. The Giants’ owner otherwise would have heard yet another barb thrown at his rudderless franchise in the aftermath of Saquon Barkley’s historic performance against the Rams on Sunday. It all started while ESPN’s duo of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman discussed the rushing title race between … Read more
Actress Mara Wilson, who starred as the titular character in the 1996 film ‘Matilda,’ said she’s “never made enough” money to qualify for Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Radio and Television Artists (SAG-AFTRA) healthcare in recent years. Wilson has joined thousands of actors and entertainers striking in Hollywood with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) … Read more
Mara Wilson cemented herself as one of the top child stars of the 1990s with roles in movies like “Matilda” and “Mrs. Doubtfire” — but she doesn’t look back on the time in her life fondly. Wilson, now 35, has opened up about about feeling “sexualized” as a young kid growing up in the film … Read more
Kate Mara stars as an FBI agent who gets in over her head in the new FBI thriller “Class of ’09” — and she had some training for the role, she said. “The first day we all met in person, we actually had sort of an actors’ physical boot camp experience,” Mara, 40, told The … Read more
SOS at the SAGs. Hundreds of guests were supposedly left stranded outside the Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza hotel in Los Angeles Sunday evening as the show kicked off. Bill Murray, Claire Foy and Rooney Mara were amongst the star-studded crowd left waiting for the green light to enter the venue … Read more
It was a “Nightmare”-ish experience. Rooney Mara has revealed that she almost quit acting after an experience she had on the reboot of “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” according to the podcast “LaunchLeft.” “A few years before [‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’], I had done a ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ remake, which was not a good … Read more