Making movies might seem like it’s all fun and games, but at the end of the day, it can actually be a stressful job for the cast and crew. There are budgets to stick to, scenes to shoot, and nervous or entitled egos to manage. Even the most skilled directors and actors sometimes butt heads when it comes to creating a movie. The latest actor to break his silence on an incident with a director is Matthew Broderick, who opened up about his time filming Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with the late director John Hughes.
Appearing on THR's It Happened in Hollywood podcast, Broderick opened up about his time with legendary teen movie director while filming Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He recalled a costume test in the early days of production that left John Hughes feeling less than impressed; he allegedly went so far as to call some of the cast boring, with the actor noting, "He said none of us were ‘fun to watch.'" While there’s no denying Hughes' genius when it came to teen movies, it appears he sometimes acted just like the callous adults in his movies. Per the star:
