‘Ferris Bueller’ director called me ‘boring’ on set: Matthew Broderick
nypost.comthe Hollywood Reporter’s “It Happened in Hollywood” podcast.“He was not easygoing in some ways,” he said of the late “Breakfast Club” auteur — who died in August 2009.“He was nervous it wouldn’t come out right,” Broderick said, referring to a costume test with the cast.
The “Stepford Wives” actor noted that he and fellow cast members Jennifer Grey, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck and Charlie Sheen strolled around the streets of Chicago rocking their costumes while the camera crew filmed them.“[The test] was a big drama,” he continued. “When the footage came back, [Hughes] said none of us were ‘fun to watch.’ We were ‘boring’ in our tests.
Actually, some of us he did like, but some he did not, and I was one he did not.” This left Broderick feeling dejected, as his role as slacker Ferris Bueller was one of his first major film roles.
The father of three stated that for Hughes to say to him, “I’m not used to having somebody be so dead,” was soul-crushing.Broderick remembered that Hughes told him that he “wasn’t really ‘in it’ or something.” “That happened and I said, ‘So get somebody you like,'” he recalled clapping back at the “Pretty in Pink” director.He detailed another encounter on-set between Hughes and Broderick that made the latter feel insecure.“He said, ‘I like when your eyes go wide, and then smaller, and then go wide again.’ I said, ‘If you tell me exactly what my face is doing, I get kind of self-conscious.
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