“He was not easygoing in some ways,” Broderick said about the famed filmmaker.
“He was nervous [the film] wouldn’t come out right.”
“That was a big drama,” he said.
Matthew Broderick in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’.©Paramount/courtesy Everett Collection
“When the footage came back, [Hughes] said none of us were ‘fun to watch.’
We were ‘boring’ in our tests.”
In fairness, Broderick maintained that Hughes wasn’t theonlydirector who had criticized his acting by that point.
“But, hopefully, eventually, I do.
If that’s what you want, I’m fine.'”
He went on to describe Hughes as “somebody who could get angry at you.”
He continued, “Not outwardly angry, but you could tell.
He would turn dead.
I would say, ‘What did you think of that?’
And he’d say, ‘I don’t know.’
John doesn’t like that.'”
“I said, ‘If you tell me exactly what my face is doing, I get very self-conscious.
Now I’m thinking of my face.'”
In response, Broderick said that Hughes simply stopped giving him any direction entirely.
That was our worst one."
“He was not a loosey-goosey person around work.
In hindsight, Broderick teased, “Maybe I was annoying him the way Ferris annoys his own parents?
That may be true.
John Hughes is like Frankenstein and Ferris Bueller was the monster.”
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