Ralph Fiennes to reportedly torture kids as Miss Trunchbull in Netflix's Matilda

Quiet, little maggots, Deadline has some news: Ralph Fiennes has reportedly joined the cast of Netflix’s adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic, Matilda. In it he will play Miss Agatha Trunchbull (or “The Trunchbull,” depending on who you ask), the unflinchingly antagonistic headmistress of Matilda’s school. She is needlessly cruel, a former Olympian, and she once made a kid eat an entire cake out of spite, which sounds like a standard Thursday night for some of us, but still a messed up way to punish a child. The project is the latest result of recent development deal between the streamer and Dahl’s estate, which already plan to release two animated, Taika Waititi-directed Charlie And The Chocolate Factory series and an adaptation of The BFG.