Matthew Broderick says he "Butt Heads" with the director of "Ferris Bueller" John Hughes

The filmmaker frequently got angry with him, the actor revealed in a recent interview.


Ferris Bueller's leave day is one of the most loved adolescent films of all time. And it is thanks to the writing and the realization of the end John Hughes And star performance Matthew Broderick ,, Mia Sara , And Alan Ruck . But, there were points during filming when the director and the casting were not on the same wavelength, especially with regard to Hughes and Broderick. In fact, the star, now aged 61, says that he and the filmmaker "Butt Heads".

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter ' s It happened in Hollywood podcast, Broderick shared that Hughes was often critical of him and even called him (with his co-stars) "boring" and not "fun to watch". Read the rest to discover what he had elsewhere to say about the director "not easy to live" and how they managed to create a classic anyway. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

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Hughes was disappointed with a wardrobe test.

Broderick, who was 23 years old when he played Ferris, revealed on the podcast that Hughes has become to show some dissatisfaction with the cast when they did an early production work in Chicago.

"I remember that we did a suit test very early," recalls the actor. "We went around the streets of Chicago in our costumes and they filmed us - me, Alan, Jennifer Gray and Mia. "He said that the test results gave a" big drama ".

"When the images returned, he said that none of us was" fun to watch ". We were" boring "in our tests," said the actor. "In fact, some of us that 'He loved, but some that he did not do it, and I was not. "

Broderick said he could have been more aware of the comments if he had been a "newcomer Total", but he had made a few films on time Ferris Bueller came around.

"So, make said:" I'm not used to having someone so dead ", or everything he told me. I was not really" inside "or something like that "Continued the star." It happened and I said, "So ask someone you love." "

Hughes stopped directing Broderick after having a spit.

Broderick said that another tense moment had occurred when they argued on the Hughes staging style.

"He said:" I like when your eyes go away, then smaller, then becomes "" recalled Broderick told him about a scene. "I said," If you tell me exactly what my face does, I'm a little aware. Now I think of my face. "And he said to himself:" Well, then, I won't direct you at all. ""

Broderick said that after that, "for a few days [Hughes] gave him nothing".

"Until I finally had to say:" John, you have to direct me, go "," continued the actor. He called this disagreement their "worse".

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Hughes was "not easy to live".

Matthew Broderick in
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Broderick explained that the disagreements with Hughes were short -lived and faced them in Hughes by taking his work seriously and being "nervous, that would not come out properly".

"It was not easy to live in some respects," said the star.

"[John] was not a loose person. But he didn't have a grudge either and knew how to get out of it," said Broderick. He explained the Sixteen candles The director's temperament, "he was someone who could get angry with you. Not angry externally, but you could say it. He would become dead. Dead in the face, I would say:" What did you think ? "And he said," I don't know ". Just nothing."

Broderick also admitted that some of the criticisms he had obtained from Hughes, he also received other directors. "I make people crazy sometimes sometimes because I seem to do nothing sometimes, it seems. But, I hope, in the end, I do," he said. "He is not the first director to grab me at some point and to say:" What's wrong with you? ""

The wardrobe test could have killed the film.

Broderick and Ruck reflected on the stressful wardrobe test In the 2011 book You could not ignore me if you try: the Pack de Grenouet, John Hughes, and their impact on a generation by Susannah Gora . Broderick said that when he got to rehearsal, "everyone was sitting in a naufrative funk. It was as if the world had ended." According to Ruck, Hughes had told them that the wardrobe test "was zero".

"John was very distraught because we had not shown an excitement in our wardrobe test; [he felt] that I looked dull and outside," said Broderick. "I thought that [the test] was for the clothes, but it was also, I guess, to show that we were charming. And John was in panic." He said that the actors and the filmmakers even had a conversation "maybe we should not make this film".

Ruck said it was Broderick who overturned the situation. After Gray was congratulated for the way she "shone" in the images, Broderick said: "Wow, I didn't know that someone was supposed to shine in a wardrobe test."

"In a sentence, Broderick defused it," said Ruck. "He made John laugh, which was necessary."

Hughes suddenly died from a heart attack in August 2009 at the age of 59. Many stars who have worked with him throughout his career, including Broderick, Honored at the 2010 Oscars .


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