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‘My legacy? I’m Ferris Bueller’: Matthew Broderick on life, love and opioids
From storming the West End with his wife Sarah Jessica Parker, to playing the architect of the US opioids crisis in dark new Netflix drama Painkiller – the star is taking a bold new direction

Xan Brooks
Fri 4 Aug 2023 12.00 BST

Matthew Broderick’s last screen performance for the foreseeable future takes place over Zoom from his house in the Hamptons for an audience comprised of a Netflix assistant and me. It’s the day before the Screen Actors Guild goes on strike, shuttering TV shows, feature films, press junkets, the lot. Broderick can’t imagine how this particular drama plays out. He gestures at the clock on the wall and the door to the garden. He says, “Here we are. This scene could be it.”




https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... nd-opioids