In the 1996 film Matilda, what is the name of the boy forced to eat an enormous chocolate cake?

In the 1996 film Matilda, Bruce Bogtrotter is the boy forced to eat an enormous chocolate cake.

Bruce is a pupil at Crunchem Hall Primary School, the school ruled by the intimidating headmistress Agatha Trunchbull. After Trunchbull accuses him of stealing a slice of her chocolate cake, she orders him to eat an entire large cake in front of the school assembly.

The scene becomes a turning point because Bruce gradually finishes the cake while his classmates cheer him on. The moment shows the students beginning to resist Trunchbull’s cruelty, even though Bruce is exhausted by the challenge.

Matilda was directed by Danny DeVito and released in 1996. It adapts Roald Dahl’s 1988 children’s novel, although the film adds or changes some material. The cake scene is one of the adaptation’s most recognizable chocolate-related moments.