Matthew Broderick

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261 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 8 Aug

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Brendan O'Connor · “I didn’t think Ferris Bueller would last 40 years” - Matthew Broderick · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

I remember when I was starting, there's enough people who keep telling you, you're crazy, it's impossible, nobody makes a living, don't be an actor.

You get plenty of that, so I'm not going to add to that.

I certainly don't want him to do it because I tell him to... You know, he's got to make that decision on his own.

I think that's very sensible.

Yeah.

I, you know, yes and no.

I've did my best.

Have there been, have you had lean times?

Certainly.

Really, when?

Oh, I think after all those movies in the 80s, it was hard for me to... You know, you get very known as this young, smart aleck, and you can only do that a few times.

So then you've got to... Audiences have to...

allow you to be something else and that takes takes a while yeah and i don't you kind of did did you kind of do the more neurotic guy then for a while yeah then i kind of found myself playing what's that cable guy yeah yeah yeah and i kind of started playing sort of schlubs or sort of uh uh nerdy what were they milk toast sometimes i would read um okay that's nice yeah it's not so nice but uh

but you know you it's not like i had some big plan i sort of take what comes my way and i try to pick the best thing and i don't always it's very hard to predict what's gonna be uh work well or not but then i got i felt i was stuck in that kind of uh caleb guy is a wonderful film but that's not a role i wanted to keep doing either so i had to try to you know get out of that and uh

The one thing I had that... It's very hard to keep a film career going and going, you know?

But I did have the theater at the same time, so I never felt... If films were not working for me, I still had another skill that I loved, so...

I always felt I'll keep these two things going.

So when one goes wrong, I can depend on the other.

Either way, whichever way that... Whatever way it is at the time.

Well, I love that it's live, truthfully.

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