Honey I Shrunk The Kids Cast: What Do They Look Like Now?
It was the live action Disney movie that, unexpectedly, took the world by storm. But whatever happened to the Honey I Shrunk The Kids cast?
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Wayne Szalinski (Rick Moranis) – THEN
Wayne is a scientist who is trying to create a machine that can shrink things. After some failed attempts, the machine works!
The only issue is that it shrunk his and the next door neighbours’ kids…
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Rick Moranis (Wayne Szalinski) – NOW
You may recognise Rick from other movies like Little Shop of Horrors or Ghostbusters.
What you may notice is that all of his films were in the 80s and 90s; this is because after his wife passed away from cancer in 1991, Rick found it too difficult to both work and be a single parent so is now a full time father.
He assures that he has not retired from acting, he is just more particular with the roles he agrees to.
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Diane Szalinski (Marcia Strassman) – THEN
Diane is the wife of Wayne and mother to Nick and Amy. Out of her family she perhaps the least academically intelligent, but supports the rest of her family’s scientific ventures.
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Marcia Strassman (Diane Szalinski) – NOW
Marcia is best known for starring in TV shows, such as M*A*S*H, Welcome Back, Kotter and Magnum P.I..
She starred in the movie’s sequel, Honey, I Blew Up The Kid (1992) but was not invited back for the third movie.
Unfortunately, Marcia passed away from breast cancer in 2014.
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Nick Szalinski (Robert Oliveri) – THEN
Nick is the son of Wayne and Diane who also loves science. Spoiler alert: he is almost eaten by his dad!
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Robert Oliveri (Nick Szalinski) – NOW
Robert was a big actor in the late 80s and early 90s. He starred in Friday the 13th: The Series and is also famous for playing Kevin, Winona Ryder’s character’s younger brother in Edward Scissorhands.
Little is now known about Robert. He has no social media accounts and hasn’t starred in anything since 1994 – due to this, there are no photos of what he looks like now.
Rumour has it that he lives with his wife and kids in Florida.
Amy Szalinski (Amy O’Neill) – THEN
The daughter of Wayne and Diane, Amy is the love interest of the next door neighbours’ son, Russ Jr. During the film she ends up nearly drowning, but Russ Jr. gives her mouth to mouth resuscitation.
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Amy O’Neill (Amy Szalinski) – NOW
Not long after Honey, I Shrunk The Kids was released, Amy quit acting as the majority of the roles she was offered required nudity.
She is now a circus performer.
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Russ Thompson Sr. (Matt Frewer) – THEN
Big Russ Thompson is the father of Russ Jr. and Ron who gets suspicious when his children don’t come home and understandably furious when he learns what happens to them.
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Matt Frewer (Russ Thompson Sr.) – NOW
Nowadays you will probably know Matt best for his appearance in horror-based shows. He played Dr Aldous Leekie in Orphan Black, was Carnage in Netflix’s Altered Carbon and he has also been cast in the Netflix series The Order.
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Mae Thompson (Kristine Sutherland) – THEN
Mae is Russ Sr.’s wife and mum to Russ Jr. and Ron. By the end of the movie, the two families are best friends.
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Kristine Sutherland (Mae Thompson) – NOW
Kristine is best known for her roles as Mae and for being Joyce Summers, the mother of Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She occasionally acts but is also a photographer.
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Russ Thompson Jr. (Thomas Wilson Brown) – THEN
Russ is the elder Thompson boy who has a big crush on Amy. At the end of the film, we see that they are dating.
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Thomas Wilson Brown (Russ Thompson Jr.) – NOW
After making it big as a child star, Brown now is a film writer, director, producer and co-owner of the independent production company Thunder Basin Pictures. He still occasionally acts.
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Ron Thompson (Jared Rushton) – THEN
In the film, we see Ron befriend an ant. However, ‘Antie’ dies saving the kids’ lives.
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Jared Rushton (Ron Thompson) – NOW
Jared starred in many films as a child. Including Big, Overboard and Lady in White. Nowadays, Jared is in the band Deal By Dusk.
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