Matthew Broderick Reveals He Struggled Finding Work After Starring in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'

Sophie Habboo has admitted that working with her husband Jamie Laing can get very “intense” as she opened up about how their podcast affects their relationship. Sophie, 29, and Jamie, 34, launched the podcast together back in March 2022. It was originally called NearlyWeds, but the couple rebranded the show NewlyWeds after they tied the knot in April 2023.

Retail giant M&S has taken a bold stance against online body shaming after Vogue Williams, their ambassador and well-known TV and radio personality, faced cruel comments from trolls on social media. The incident occurred when Vogue shared a video of herself modelling swimwear during a family vacation with her husband Spencer Matthews and their children Theodore, four, Gigi, three, and baby Otto, 15 months.

Faye Brookes is a blushing bride-to-be in the first photos of her sampling wedding dresses. Set to tie the knot with fiancé Iwan Lewis later this month, the 35 year old Coronation Street cast member has been busy modelling three separate gowns for the Instagram crowd. These elegant insights were celebrated by Faye's followers, who responded: "What an amazing day and life you are going to have.

BreAnna Bell Netflix’s latest limited series starring Matthew Broderick and “Orange is the New Black” alum Uzo Aduba, “Painkiller” opened atop the top 10’s English TV list with 7.2 million total views. Thus, ending “The Lincoln Lawyer” Season 2’s second run in first place following the release of part 2. The procedural drama moved to No.

Made In Chelsea star Spencer Matthews has hit back at rumours circulating about his death, following reports he was hospitalised following an overdose of coldsore medication. While on holiday with his wife, Vogue Williams and their three children, Spencer was hospitalised for two days.

Jennifer Lawrence got to show off her comedic side in her latest film,, and the laughs kept going off camera as well! ET exclusively debuts the film's gag reel, which shows Lawrence — and, occasionally, co-stars Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti and Matthew Broderick — flubbing lines and cracking up on set.The film stars the Oscar winner as Maddie, a reckless 20-something who answers a Craigslist ad placed by a pair of concerned parents. They want Maddie to «date» their son, Percy (Feldman), a socially inept 19-year-old who has so far expressed no interest in girls, parties or other teenage exploits, leading to some hilariously awkward moments.Check out the full bloopers in the video above!When ET spoke with Lawrence at the premiere in New York City back in June, she revealed another fun fact from set: that she got Feldman to defer his studies at Harvard University to take on the role in the raunchy rom-com.«I mean, when Andrew left his audition, the door closed and we all looked at each other and we were like, 'That's our — that's Percy,' and then they were like there's one complication, he's supposed to go to Harvard, and we were like, 'Is that a joke?'» Lawrence explained.«He was fully the character, so I called him and said, 'Andrew, I have really bad news, you're not gonna be able to finish your semester at Harvard,'» she continued.

Netflix’s Painkiller charts the birth of the opioid crisis in the US through the story of pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, who created the drug OxyContin.Created by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, the miniseries follows the origins and impact of OxyContin across the US, a painkiller drug which was widely marketed without any concerns for its side effects and addictive qualities.A synopsis describes the show as “an examination of crime, accountability, and the systems that have repeatedly failed hundreds of thousands of Americans”.The show stars Uzo Aduba as Edie Flowers, an investigator pursuing Purdue Pharma over its marketing, alongside Matthew Broderick as the company’s president Richard Sackler. Other cast members include Sam Anderson, Taylor Kitsch and Carolina Bartczak.Just as a trial against Purdue Pharma gets underway, the judge announces the company has settled the matter out of court, with Purdue agreeing to “plead guilty to one count of fraudulently misbranding OxyContin”.

New Yorker article, “The Family That Built an Empire of Pain” and Barry Meier’s book, “Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic.” It retells the opioid crisis from several different perspectives, including billionaire Richard Sackler (Broderick) and his team at Purdue Pharma (Sackler has denied responsibility for the crisis); Edie Flowers (Uzo Aduba), a lawyer working for the US attorney’s office in Roanoke who’s investigating the drug OxyContin; Glen Kryger (Taylor Kitsch), a family man with a small business who gets hooked on OxyContin after he’s injured at work; and Shannon Shaeffer (West Duchovony), a new recruit to the Purdue sales team who begins having doubts. “Back in 2003, I was working at the New York Times and we got a tip that there was this new drug called OxyContin that was running wild on the streets of all these small towns,” Meier, a consulting producer on the show, told The Post.

As of last year, over a million people have died of opioid overdoses in the United States. The central culprits, as outlined in Netflix’s latest miniseries, “Painkiller,” are Purdue Pharma and the “non-addictive” prescription drug they marketed to anyone with a pulse and a toothache: OxyContin.

Netflix's latest limited series is a fictionalised re-telling of a drugs crisis which has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans since the late 90s.

Netflix original series to become a summer hit looks set to be the drug drama Painkiller, fronted by Matthew Broderick – you can find episode details below.The series takes on the ever-headline-making prescription drugs crisis that continues to grip America and other parts of the world. Broderick plays a slick pharmaceutical executive, Richard Sackler, while Uzo Aduba’s Edie Flowers is the government lawyer set on taking him down.An official synopsis for Painkiller reads: “A fictionalized retelling of events, Painkiller is a scripted limited series that explores some of the origins and aftermath of the opioid crisis in America, highlighting the stories of the perpetrators, victims, and truth-seekers whose lives are forever altered by the invention of OxyContin.“An examination of crime, accountability, and the systems that have repeatedly failed hundreds of thousands of Americans, Painkiller is based on the book Pain Killer by Barry Meier and the New Yorker magazine article The Family That Built an Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe.”The first season of Painkiller comprises six one hour episodes that chart the battle between the good guys (Flowers and the Feds) and the big bad (Sackler and his Pharma company).As with many TV series on Netflix, the series will have its entire season released in one go as of Thursday, August 10.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.The actor, who achieved worldwide fame as Ferris Bueller in the 1987 teen comedy, explained how it was “hard” for people to get on board with his later roles.Speaking in an interview with The Guardian, Broderick said: “I did have nice early success. But it’s not easy to maintain that first flush. It’s always a hard adjustment for child actors, young actors.

is back… and taking things to the theater!The third season of Hulu's lauded mystery-comedy series debuts on Tuesday, Aug. 8, with the first two episodes, and only ET has an exclusive first look at the second episode of the upcoming season, in which the show's central trio — Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), Oliver Putnam (Martin Short), and Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez) — return to their true-crime podcast to tackle the shocking death of Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd), the star of Oliver's triumphant directorial return to Broadway.In ET's exclusive clip, Oliver, Charles-Haden and Mabel arrive at Ben's funeral, only to realize that they've been downgraded on the guest list to «Overflow 3,» a basement room where lesser attendees are watching the live stream of the funeral being held upstairs in the actual cathedral.«I was sent here by mistake,» Oliver insists.

Matthew Broderick has been an actor since his early teens, but it was his role in the 1986 John Hughes classic "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off" that made him a star. In a new interview with The Guardian, Broderick opened up on the impact it had on his career. "I mean, yeah, I did have nice early success.

Matthew Broderick has enjoyed a career lasting 40 years on stage, screen and now TV, but he accepts the headline of his legacy will always be “Ferris Bueller.”

told The Guardian. “It’s always a hard adjustment for child actors, young actors. People see the kid out of ‘Leave It to Beaver’ grown up and they don’t buy it — they want to see little Beaver.”“People associated me with younger roles, but I wanted them to come with me and get used to the fact that I’m wrinkly.

Kelly Osbourne is explaining why she went into hiding during her pregnancy.

Vanessa Williams is getting real about if she’s ever gotten plastic surgery – and revealing what she has done.

2023 Emmys have even been postponed, possibly until early next year. Nevertheless, amidst the chaos, the show must go on, and there are still many TV offerings on tap for the sultry long days of summerFrom a new prestige TV mystery series to a star-studded cooking show, an LGBT rom-com and a new reality dating series, August offers something for viewers of all ages.Here’s your handy guide.“The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart”Sigourney Weaver stars in a family drama miniseries based on a book of the same name. The story arc spans decades and follows an orphaned girl (Alicia Debnam-Carey, “Fear the Walking Dead”) with a troubled past who must move in with her grandmother, who lives on a flower farm.

In this new era of actors’ financial transparency, actor Seann William Scott has revealed the paltry amount he was paid to appear in 1999 hit comedy American Pie.