![]() ![]() There is plenty of this old-school showmanship in Matilda. Forever the stupidest, loudest kids in whatever class they failed, they romp around in terrible wigs, tearing up their daughter’s books and screaming with laughter at the television from their matching vinyl recliners, working their grotesque characters like a couple of music-hall comedians working to fill a stage. ![]() Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough play Matilda’s parents, people who never wanted a baby, and despise the incisively intelligent girl that baby has become. Emma Thompson’s Miss Trunchbull, the former hammer-throwing champion whose old skills come in handy when she picks up a girl by her braids and throws her over the fence, has more than a whiff of the Nazi camp commandant about her even when she is screeching that she has a newt down her knickers, she is terrifying enough to send a satisfying shiver down the spine of the most ghoulish child in the audience. Everyone is turned up to a glorious eleven. Without exception, the actors leap across the same bar. ![]() Emma Thompson, Stephen Graham & Lashana Lynch On London Film Festival Opener ‘Matilda The Musical’ ![]()
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