Matthew Broderick had no want to turn into the subsequent Mr. Big.
The 62-year-old actor revealed why he by no means appeared in “Sex and the City” regardless of his spouse, Sarah Jessica Parker, being the present’s star throughout its six seasons from 1998 to 2004.
While showing on the Thursday episode of SiriusXM’s “This Life of Mine with James Corden” podcast, host James Corden requested Broderick, “Is it true that there was a moment or there were multiple times that you were asked to play a part in ‘Sex and the City’ and you opted not to?”
“It’s a little bit true,” Broderick admitted. “I don’t even know that I remember that well. Whenever there was a part that I could do, I couldn’t do it, is really all that happened.”
However, there have been sure roles the “Painkiller” star had no curiosity in taking over.
“But also sometimes it was like, ‘Do you want to do two days as the premature ejaculator?’ and I’d be, ‘You know, well, I don’t know…'”
“And this would come direct from Sarah. She’d come home and say…” Corden, 46, teased earlier than Broderick quipped, “No.”
“Oh, this would come through very professional channels,” Corden continued. “She wouldn’t come home and say, ‘Honey, I found the perfect part for you. The premature ejaculator.’ That feels like, I think she’s chosen the right method to go through your agent.”
“Yeah, no, they were very professional,” Broderick stated. “I wish that I had done it or been in it. That was her thing and that would be stunting me or something. I don’t know. It just never worked out. I love that show and I would have been delighted to be in it, but it just never lined up right.”
The function in the end went to Justin Theroux, who performed short-story author Vaughn Wysel in Season 2, Episode 15, “Shortcomings.”
The 53-year-old additionally had a cameo as Jared, an up-and-coming creator and acquaintance of Carrie’s buddy Stanford, in Season 1’s “The Monogamists.”
Although the real-life couple by no means crossed paths on the beloved New York City rom-com collection, Parker, 59, could have revealed extra about their dynamic than followers notice.
“I’d get so nervous,” she advised the New York Times in a 2020 interview along with her husband of 27 years. “Like, ‘Matthew’s here! Don’t look at me!’ I’m getting hives just thinking about you being on set.”
The pair are mother and father to James Wilkie, 21, and twin daughters Tabitha Hodge and Marion Loretta Elwell, 13.
Broderick and Parker did combine enterprise with pleasure for Neil Simon’s Broadway comedy “Plaza Suite,” which ran for the first time in 1968.
In 2022, they took the stage and carried out as one in all three {couples} staying in a set at the iconic New York City resort two years after coronavirus delayed the play.
During an interview with the WSJ Magazine in 2020, Broderick famous that many individuals marvel why the duo hasn’t collaborated on extra tasks.
“We’d always put the kibosh on it. We didn’t even discuss it,” Parker responded.
She added, “I think for practical reasons and for personal reasons. The personal reasons were, Why would we do that? We were both happy working in our separate professional lives. And then, we have children. There are discussions about who will be home when. And what does theater demand versus movies or television.”
