Robin Williams would have veterans hired as extras on set, 'Mrs. Doubtfire' movie daughter says

Robin Williams' "Mrs. Doubtfire" movie daughter, who founded a military nonprofit, told Fox News Digital the comedian worked with veterans, including getting them hired on film sets.

"So many people have told me that Robin did a lot of work with the veteran population as well, and that he always had production crews hire local veterans to be background actors or things like that on set, which is not something I ever knew about when I worked with him."

"Robin was everything you would hope Robin would be, and it’s so wonderful to think back on him now," Jakub said of her experience with the iconic comedian who died in 2015. She added that she was "grateful that I got to be in his presence, that I got to be working with him, that he was so kind to me." 

Calling Williams "thoughtful and generous," she said he was also "probably one of the first people who ever really spoke to me super honestly about mental health. And he would talk to me about his struggles and the things that he went through. And it was the first time that I felt like, ‘Oh, I'm not a freak. I don't have to hide this about myself. This is just something that some of us have to deal with.’"