When professional child actor Suki Hillier landed the title role in “Matilda The Musical,” she thought she would have to learn how to become someone else. Instead, she realized she had known the role since she was three, when she playfully tried to move objects with her mind the way Matilda does. In this joyful talk, she reveals the similarities between the stage and life — because imagination isn’t about escaping the world. It’s a way of building one. (Recorded at Play@TED on May 14, 2026)
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@Eathercommercial
August 18, 2026 at 11:31 am
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@Abyglow
August 18, 2026 at 11:34 am
Firstt🎉
@Mali_abhay
August 18, 2026 at 11:35 am
Imagination life is your creation 💕
@venator3301
August 18, 2026 at 11:38 am
The world doesn’t change – people do
@storieswithanita1
August 18, 2026 at 11:40 am
Thank you
@everythingishere3874
August 18, 2026 at 11:47 am
I want to be a football coach in europe and i know I can do even I come from Nepal and one day I will return here and be football coach
@Boomerangbone
August 18, 2026 at 2:08 pm
Just here to check in and make sure everyone knows Ted platformed the mother of the Columbine shooter who gave a remarkably disgusting talk denying any bit of responsibility. Rest In Peace to the victims. Shame on this youtube channel for locking comments on that video, let alone having the audacity to publish it or even think having her speak is a reasonable thing to do.
@David-bl5ug
August 18, 2026 at 8:18 pm
She’s not the one who killed those kids. Her son was.
@Boomerangbone
August 19, 2026 at 12:52 am
@David-bl5ug you’re a bot
@Onionbaron
August 18, 2026 at 2:20 pm
Books enhance your own imagination, visual media the opposite, and just tapping in on someone else imagination, and that is the fastest way to lose your own!
@xThunderOUx
August 18, 2026 at 3:31 pm
Hermoine Granger?
@savageoldman
August 18, 2026 at 3:43 pm
If this is not ai, I’m shocked.
@Jasonxbr
August 18, 2026 at 4:42 pm
Stay as a child please- being a adult isn’t great- your innocence- the power of imagination- free will- is bestow in your inner heart ♥️ ❤️ 💓 💖 💔 💛 ♥️ ❤️ 💓 💖 💔
@KenTheAdventurer
August 19, 2026 at 5:47 am
Or she’s more like the person we need to become an adult in the future
@ParkourChildhood
August 18, 2026 at 6:28 pm
This was a hard watch and felt forced, mum doing way to much.
@drumbum3.142
August 18, 2026 at 7:04 pm
– There are Times when Fiction possesses Snapshots, Nuances, Scripts, Screengrabs, Lessons, and Details that are more Precious than what one finds in Non-fiction. 🎭
@gariyas
August 18, 2026 at 8:08 pm
Only the ancients are capable of true image, imago, and imagination (of the universe).
The creative power of the mind pertaining to the imagination is the exclusive property of the ancients. – Giacomo Leopardi
@bocahgemblung12
August 19, 2026 at 4:05 am
aksen mana yang digunakan anak tersebut?
@张楼
August 19, 2026 at 4:46 am
She is just another her. 🤣 The world is really a cycle. You will always find something familar in old times.
@haebaee
August 19, 2026 at 5:53 am
she looks like IU (Korean’s singer)
@what-t7o
August 19, 2026 at 9:30 am
who wants a followback?
@konradkudzia28
August 19, 2026 at 12:04 pm
Trying to speak about imagination by performing rehersed script reading… well done…
@think32
August 20, 2026 at 4:41 am
It’s wild how some people are so negative. And to a kid, who I think did a great job. Why are you such a chode?
@JeffreyWalker-j4r
August 19, 2026 at 12:45 pm
Okay TED. The only planet life can possibly exist on… with no other intelligent life present, and the” intelligent “life that does inhabit the planet is polluting it… accept it TED, humans are foolish. Too much truth?
@RiffatAlam-x8w
August 19, 2026 at 1:47 pm
I took Clara Hartley’s anxiety quiz after seeing several people discuss their results. I wouldn’t say a quiz can explain everything about someone, obviously, but it did point out a few patterns I hadn’t really connected before. That was probably the most interesting part for me.
@ginatyra8451
August 19, 2026 at 10:49 pm
This is why she’s starring in that role. She has that presence!
@think32
August 20, 2026 at 4:43 am
Great job Suki Hillier! Mathilda is one of my favorite musicals. And congrats on getting the role; that’s quite an accomplishment and super inspiring!
@JuvankaAyuna-f3p
August 20, 2026 at 7:32 am
It’s a good story
@MehjabinPriya-e8f
August 21, 2026 at 5:02 am
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