Mrs Doubtfire child star recalls amazing Robin Williams gesture after she was expelled from school [Video]

Lisa Jakub, one of the child stars of the 1993 family film Mrs Doubtfire, has recalled the “amazing” gesture from co-star Robin Williams after she was expelled from school.

Jakub, who was 15 when she acted in Mrs Doubtfire, was kicked out of her high school after accepting the role in the film.

In the film, Williams played a divorced father who invents a cross-dressing alter-ego in a bid to covertly spend more time with his children.

“I got thrown out of high school on Doubtfire,“ Jakub, now 45, told Brotherly Love podcast. “I’m Canadian. I was attending high school in Canada, then I left for four months to film the movie. We were going to set up this system, pre-internet, where I’d mail my school work back and forth to the school. We did that for a while.”

The actor went …