Robin Williams' 'Mrs. Doubtfire' movie daughter, who founded a military nonprofit, told Fox News Digital the comedian worked with veterans, including getting them hired on film sets.
Lisa Jakub, who played Robin Williams’ oldest daughter in 1993’s 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' says the actor worked to get 'local veterans' jobs on sets. Jakub, who runs a military nonprofit, told Fox News Digital that she was 'grateful' to have had him as her movie dad. 'Robin was everything you would hope Robin would be, and it’s so wonderful to think back on him now,' Jakub said of her experience with the iconic comedian who died in 2015.
Jakub, who founded Mission Flexible two years ago, said she started the program after having worked with people suffering from anxiety and depression for years and was invited to teach therapeutic writing at a veteran’s retreat in 2016. 'I just absolutely fell in love with the veteran community,' she said. 'I don’t know if I had ever talked to a veteran before I went and did that. I was so intimidated.
She said that one day they broke for lunch on set, and director 'Chris Columbus introduced me to his mother, who was joining us for lunch. And she was very nice.' Unbeknownst to her, Columbus’ 'mother' was actually Williams, made up as Mrs. Doubtfire, a getup Jakub hadn’t seen before. 'I'm 14 and I'm meeting my boss's mom, right?' she reminisced to Fox News Digital. 'So, I'm trying to keep it together. I'm trying to be professional.
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