Mara Wilson

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Actress and writer Mara Wilson joins Rhett to talk about why she enjoys writing dialogue, how her childhood pointed her in the direction of becoming a storyteller, and effective ways to overcome mental health struggles. Mara also dives deep on why she values social ties in the context of creation, and tells Rhett about how her work becomes more clear to her as time passes. Mara Wilson, known for her childhood roles in Mrs. Doubtfire and Matilda, is a writer and actor living in Los Angeles. Recently, she has appeared on Welcome to Night Vale, Broad City, and Bojack Horseman. Her writing has appeared on Elle.com, McSweeney’s, Reductress, and Cracked. She also publishes a newsletter of her writing with Substack, 'Shan't We Call the Vicar?' and Mara's first book, Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame, is available from Penguin Random House. Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Co-produced by Kirsten Cluthe in partnership with Nick Ruffini (Revoice Media). Editing by Justin Thomas. Production Assistance by Matt Bavuso. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Rainn Wilson, Nick Hornby, Pete Yorn, Liz Phair, and more. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Osiris.
0:03.9	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.1	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.7	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.9	Shot it up and we ain't gonna stop.
0:16.9	Like you.
0:18.0	I could not.
0:19.5	That's when they got wheels off. When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote,
0:25.5	There are no second acts in American lives.
0:28.0	He clearly had not met Mara Wilson.
0:32.3	Mara has done more in her brief life than most of us could ever dream of doing in our long,
0:40.8	hopefully long lives. She was a child actor. You probably know her from Matilda or Mrs.
0:48.2	Doubtfire or any number of movies that she did when she was young, really young. And she has matriculated to a life as a
0:59.3	writer. She still, I think, acts and performs some, but she identifies primarily and works
1:05.5	primarily as a writer these days. And she's brilliant. She's always had a lot to say.
1:13.3	She's an activist as well as an author and an actor.
1:17.4	She is a deep thinker.
1:19.7	I mean, all of this will quickly become apparent
1:21.8	as you listen to our conversation.
1:24.9	I don't know Mara super well,
1:27.0	but I've gotten to spend enough time around her
1:28.8	to have always wanted her as a guest on this show. It took a while to just line it up,
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