Let’s be honest: if you were a kid in the ’90s, you probably wanted Matilda Wormwood to be your best friend. She could move objects with her mind, read Dostoevsky for fun, and had parents so ridiculous they made yours look like Nobel Prize winners. But here’s the question that has haunted playgrounds for decades: What does Matilda look like now?
Spoiler alert: she’s not still wearing that blood-red ribbon and a crisp blue dress. If she were, she’d be the most stylishly dressed 40-year-old librarian in history, and frankly, that would be exhausting for the rest of us.
