Netflix’s ‘Matilda’ Movie Musical Finds the Young Title Star and Recasts Miss Trunchbull With Emma Thompson
Posted on Friday, January 15th, 2021 by Ethan Anderton
Netflix’s adaptation of the musical version of Matilda has finally found a young star to take on the lead role of a precocious young girl with advanced reading skills and telekinetic abilities who feels like she doesn’t belong in her family of idiotic gamblers and crooks. Relatively unknown 11-year old actress Alisha Weir has landed the role of Matilda, but there’s already been a change with the casting of one of the other key characters, with Emma Thompson taking the role of the nasty headmistress Miss Trunchbull. Read More »
