Matthew Broderick Says He Turned Down This Hilarious SATC Role

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Matthew Broderick couldn't assistance but wonder if he should person been on Sex and the City?

Although looking back, the Ferris Bueller's Day Off star had a beauteous bully crushed for ne'er appearing connected wife Sarah Jessica Parker's iconic series.

"Whenever determination was a portion that I could do," Matthew explained on This Life of Mine with James Corden Oct. 3, "I couldn't bash it, is truly each that happened."

But arsenic the 62-year-old joked, "Sometimes, it was like, 'Do you privation to bash 2 days arsenic the premature ejaculator?' And I'd be, you know, 'Well, I don't know. It's conscionable benignant of embarrassing.'" 

The relation yet went to Justin Theroux, who played the quality Vaughn Wysel connected play two.

And contempt being joined to Carrie Bradshaw herself, Matthew revealed that the offers wouldn't travel from Sarah—who starred on Sex and the City from 1998 to 2004—but would travel done his agent, adding the amusement was "very professional."

Still, helium lamented, "I privation that I had done it or, oregon been successful it."

Plus, he's besides precise alert that the bid precise overmuch belonged to Sarah, 59, with whom helium shares son James, 21, and duplicate daughters Tabitha and Marion, 13.

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"That was her thing, and that would beryllium stunting maine oregon something, I don't know," helium said. "It conscionable ne'er worked out."

Matthew explained, "I emotion that amusement and I would person been delighted to beryllium successful it, but it conscionable ne'er lined up right."

While the 2 didn't get to enactment unneurotic connected the tiny screen, the couple—who archetypal met successful 1991 and person been joined for 27 years—have appeared unneurotic connected stage: successful 1996 for How to Succeed successful Business Without Really Trying, and much precocious successful 2022 for Plaza Suite.

And getting the accidental to enactment unneurotic again was thing the mates relished.

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"Her mode of moving is precise compatible for me," Matthew told The Telegraph in January. "I find her precise casual to [work with] and I'm precise impressed by her. I deliberation she's tremendously good."

Despite the information that they were playing a little than blessed mates successful the Neil Simon play, their roles didn't marque them bash excessively overmuch of a heavy dive into their ain relationship.

"Boy, you would deliberation it would," helium quipped, "but I don't cognize that it has… It's much astir depending connected each different onstage that's educational. How to assistance the different idiosyncratic and not instrumentality things personally. How to enactment unneurotic good is astir apt a bully workout for a couple."

To spot much of Matthew and Sarah's emotion communicative implicit the years, support reading.

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2022: Broadway Date Night

The 2 be the opening nighttime of Plaza Suite.

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2022: Family Night

The brace look with their kids James Wilkie Broderick, 20, and twins Tabitha Hodge Broderick and Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick, 13, astatine the premiere of the Broadway musical Some Like It Hot.

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2017: Ballet, But Make It Fashion

The 2 get astatine the New York City Ballet's 2017 Fall Fashion Gala.

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2015: A Night astatine the Theatre

The 2 be the Irish Repertory Theatre's YEATS: The Celebration astatine Town Hall in New York City.

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2013: Pure Imagination

The two and their lad James Wilkie Broderick be the property nighttime for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Theatre Royal in London.

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2013: London Calling

The 2 be the yearly Serpentine Gallery Summer Party, co-hosted by L'Wren Scott, astatine The Serpentine Gallery in London.

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2010: Here Come the Muggles

The mates and their son James Wilkie Broderick attend the New York City premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—Part 1.

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2009: Oscars

The 2 get connected the reddish carpet.

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2003: SAG Awards

The 2 airs connected the reddish carpet.

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1999: Emmys

The brace be the awards ceremony.

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1998: Godzilla Premiere

The 2 are spotted astatine the New York City screening.

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1995: Tony Awards

The mates celebrates the actor's triumph for Best Actor successful a Musical for How to Succeed successful Business Without Really Trying.

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1993: Golden Globes

The mates arrives astatine the awards ceremony.

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