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Matthew Broderick Regrets Turning Down An “Embarrassing” SATC Role
“I wish that I had done it.”
Matthew Broderick is known for his performances in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Disney’s The Lion King, and the live-action Inspector Gadget — but the actor has turned down potentially big roles throughout his career, including on HBO’s Sex and the City, which starred his wife, Sarah Jessica Parker.
On the Oct. 2 episode of SiriusXM’s This Life of Mine with James Corden, Broderick revealed that he was offered parts on SATC during its six-season run. However, his schedule often got in the way. “It just never worked out,” he said. “Whenever there was a part that I could do, I couldn’t do it is really all that happened.”
The Tony winner added that he also said no to some SATC roles because they were “kind of embarrassing.” He continued, “Sometimes it was like, ‘Do you want to do two days as the premature ejaculator?’ And I’d be, you know, ‘Well, I don’t know.’”
Reflecting on his career with host James Corden, Broderick said he now regrets not appearing on the show. “I wish that I had done it or been in it,” he admitted. “You know, that was her [Parker] thing... I loved that show and I would have been delighted to be in it, but it just never lined up right.”
During his SiriusXM sit-down, Broderick also clarified that he wasn’t offered SATC roles by his wife, Parker, who also produced the show, adding that offers came in a “very professional” manner.
HBO’s Sex and the City aired for six seasons from 1998 to 2004, and followed the lives of four friends living and dating in New York City — Carrie Bradshaw (Parker), Miranda Hobbs (Cynthia Nixon), Charlotte York (Kristin Davis), and Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall).
The SATC sequel series, And Just Like That, began airing in 2020 and saw the main cast reprise their beloved characters — with the exception of Cattrall. Broderick has not appeared in AJLT, either. At least not yet.
Sarah & Matthew’s Relationship
Broderick and Parker became an item long before Sex and the City premiered. The couple first met in 1991, and after dating and working together for several years, they eventually married in 1997.
In October 2002, Broderick and Parker welcomed their first son, James, and in June 2009, they became parents to twin daughters, Marion and Tabitha, via surrogate. As of June 2023, James said he’d never watched SATC, joking to People, “I guess it’s kind of obvious why maybe I hadn’t watched the original show as a kid.”
