All the kids from the movie have since grown up and gone on to do other things, but that doesn’t mean they can’t revisit the classic film from time to time.
At a cast reunion in 2021, the stars of Matilda came together and proved they still had that old magic as they recreated one of the iconic scenes from the movie, namely the one where Bruce Bogtrotter (Jimmy Karz) is punished for stealing a slice of chocolate cake.
Jimmy Karz played Bruce Bogtrotter in Matilda (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
In the film, Miss Trunchbull (Pam Ferris) decides to force Bruce to eat a ginormous cake in front of the entire school, but he manages to outdo her punishment by successfully scoffing the lot.
Robbed of her original punishment, she then smashes the dish over his head.
In a recreation of the scene all those years later, Ferris and Karz did the scene again, but thankfully the cake was far smaller this time.
Acting out the scene, the pair were clearly having a fine time revisiting the moment, only for Karz to get pranked as they suddenly brought out a giant cake like the one in the movie.
It doesn’t hurt that he was the director of Matilda, so if he wants to tell Bruce Bogtrotter to eat the cake then he gets to.
Of course, now that Karz is all grown up he looks pretty much unrecognisable from his younger self, which tends to happen thanks to the aging process.
As for his acting career, Karz would go on to appear in The Wedding Singer and ER, but ended up retiring from acting to pursue an altogether different career.
Filming the chocolate cake eating scene wasn’t much fun for Karz, and he had to spit out the cake between the takes (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
He decided to study to become a doctor, and back in 2015, he explained how gardening got him interested in medicine.
He said: “Through gardening, I learned a little bit about biology and chemistry, enough to realise I wanted to delve more into science. I went back to school to study biochemistry, which led me to medicine.
“I liked osteopathic medicine’s focus on helping the whole patient, and I was interested in learning manual techniques to help patients.”
