“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is probably one of the best films on the 1980s – thanks in no small part to Matthew Broderick in the title role. Yet he recently confessed that he almost passed on the film.
Apparently Matthew was afraid of being typecast as the actor who talks to the camera. “I thought [the script] was great, and I had a teeny hesitation because having just done [the plays] “Brighton Beach [Memoirs]” and “Biloxi [Blues],” he confessed. “I was like, ‘Wow, I’m talking to the audience, just like in these plays… and even in [the 1985 movie] ‘Ladyhawke’ he talks to the camera a bit.”
The main reason Mr. Sarah Jessica Parker actually took the role was because of the director, John Hughes. And it paid off. The 1986 film – which also starred Mia Sara, Alan Ruck, and Jeffrey Duncan Jones, went on to earn $70-point-1 million on a budget $5-point-8 million budget.
Source: Daily Mail
