When Heather Matarazzo’s indelible film debut “Welcome to the Dollhouse,” went to the Sundance Film Festival in 1996, the young star didn’t attend.
“I didn’t go,” she told IndieWire during a recent interview.
“Sony wouldn’t pay for me.” Now, it’s hard to imagine a breakout star of Matarazzo’s caliber, let alone the lead of a Grand Jury Prize winner, not being feted in the mountains of Park City.At the time — and, as a tween herself — she wasn’t fazed by the decision on the part of distributor Sony Pictures Classics.
“I didn’t know what a big deal it was,” she said.Matazarro’s performance as Dawn Wiener was a shock to the system.
In Solondz’s pastel-colored New Jersey suburbia, Dawn is a gangly 11-year-old with glasses whose classmates call her “lesbo” and whose teachers chide her for being a “grade grubber.” Matarazzo,
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