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The child stars of ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ react to Robin Williams’s death

The kids of "Mrs. Doubtfire" have now all come forward to provide a more complete picture of their on-screen dad. On Monday, Mara Wilson published a blog post, revealing that she heard about the 63-year-old actor's passing from a "comedian friend" while her brother had filled in the details.

Titled "Remembering Robin," Wilson's post recalled how kind Williams was on the "Doubtfire" set in 1993 and how much he would go off script.

"Chris Columbus, our director, would let Robin perform one or two takes with what was written, then do as many more takes as Robin had variations," wrote Wilson, now 27. "Sometimes I wonder why they didn’t give him at least partial screenwriting credit."

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She also noted that, as she grew up, she realized that Williams was as shy as her mother had told her. Wilson noticed it when she did a table read for 1998's "What Dreams May Come." (At the time of Williams' death, she had not seen him since around 2007.)

"He asked how my family was doing, how school was, never raising his voice and only sometimes making eye contact," she wrote. "He seemed so vulnerable."

Wilson also linked to "Doubtfire" co-star Lisa Jakub's blog post from Aug. 11. In the post, the Toronto-born actress (who played Wilson's older sister in the film) wrote a farewell to her late film father. Jakub revealed that Williams had written a letter to her school (it was published in full in The Independent( which had kicked her out because of the amount of time she was on the "Doubtfire" set.

"Robin stood up for me. He was in my corner," Jakub wrote. "I was only 14, but I had already seen that I was in an industry that was full of back-stabbing. And it was entirely clear that Robin had my back."

Unlike Jakub and Wilson, Matthew Lawrence, who played their brother, didn't write about Williams. He did, however, release a statement last week to E! News about his reaction to the actor's death.

"I am devastated," he said. "He was the single most important influence in my career and not a day goes by I don't appreciate the time I got to spend with him. My deepest thoughts and prayers are with his family."