Sarah Jessica Parker + Matthew Broderick

even though it wasn't all that long ago it seems that my conversation with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick dates back to another era and in a way it does remember walking through a crowded park on a beautiful day he grew up right here right down the street just three weeks ago before there was no place but home actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick showed off one of their favorite spots we're in the famous nowhere the park in New York like it Washington Square Park the heart of the village right the park holds 30 years of memories for this longtime couple all these new fangled buildings everywhere shared memories they don't often share we were just dating I ran from to Matthew and he was on a payphone and I was carrying a mattress with my friend John that was the beginning of a long relationship but a pretty short story the two of you how quickly did you know it was a complicated it was you we're not gonna talk about this part this is part we don't talk about this we're not practiced what's your answer to the question from the first time we were together we've never been apart since that's true sorry lately they're spending even more time together we've been watching Columbo at night we've been playing a lot of games a lot of cooking a lot of laundry the couple along with other artists recently joined Rosie O'Donnell for a live streamed benefit for the Actors Fund Parker and Broderick were set to co-star in a revival of Neil Simon's Plaza sweet but the very day they were to begin performances theaters were shut down to slow the spread of kovat 19 hello Sam plaza suite is one of the few new shows still expected to open someday any time you want to see one of all I couldn't do that why not I couldn't I couldn't impose like that just last month the stars were playing to sold-out houses in Boston and getting set to bring the play to Broadway and of course the plastic for the first time since its hit run more than 50 years ago this is room 719 Suite 719 it's also the first time Broderick and Parker have acted together since they were married 23 years ago we had basically come to the conclusion without ever having said it that we will never really work together yeah every now and then somebody would say you guys should do something together and we'd say what and they'd say I have an appointment and Parker had her own reason for hesitating actually what I felt was oh god no really because you know each other in such a different way but I think it has been incredibly pleasant get out of my way so come out just talk nicely to her we already had nice talking now what gonna have door breaking audiences have been delighted at the very beginning as soon as Miss Parker was revealed they were just very very happy to be here and you can't help but feel reassured by that in this comedy about marriage they appear as three different couples who check into the same Plaza suite it's a simple question I don't wanna play Act one Karen and Sam are celebrating an awkward wedding anniversary act to Jesse a Hollywood producer hoping for sparks with his high-school flame Muriel that character is the most fun for you because II promise you're not gonna blame me finally Norma and Roy I didn't do anything but I don't want to get blamed for it parents of the bride who's got cold feet they are moments away from handing off their daughter who has locked herself in the bathroom of course it's a challenge to change characters multiple times in one night but Parker and Broderick are experienced actors each with decades on stage and screen movie fans may still know him best from Ferris Bueller's Day Off yeah I like it 80% as much as they do and of course she's most famous as the iconic Carrie Bradshaw on Sex in the City damn it would have been so cool if I hadn't looked back what a young Terry Bradshaw have dated Ferris Bueller I don't know if Ferris Bueller would have dated Carrie Bradshaw well one is DC and the other is Marvel Oh Broderick not only knows comic books he's a devoted baseball fan and so is she before we had too many kids we had a dream we were gonna not too many kids I mean before we had so many children that rightfully took up our time we had a dream before all the baseball stadiums changed we were gonna hit every single one in the country how many of them are there there's Julia three that way you know oh god no we're sure we're sure they have two girls ten-year-old twins and a 17 year old son actors any of them all of them sounds like one of the girls yeah which is an absolute surprise but she did clarify that the other day and said she wants to get her degree in education because she really wants to be a teacher and I said that's a fine and good idea and then you can always go to acting school these funny conversations with a tenured hall do you know yeah but she and the other I think you could pass the party they both started young [Music] at 13 she was Annie and at 17 he made his stage debut alongside his dad the late actor James Broderick that was her song in 1995's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying it was the only time they'd ever worked together before Plaza suite Matthew Broderick would be the man you're singing about of course I'm just thinking about Ponte J Pierpont Finch in Ponte Oh Ponte great chemistry both on stage and off I mean we spent more time together in the last two-and-a-half three months and we've spent since we were recording really sincerely was I just doing watching yourself like a hawk while they're still seeing a lot of each other audiences will have to wait to see them live on stage but homebound fans can still spend quality time with some old friends Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker we both feel so lucky so privileged because how many great actors who haven't had the sort of success that you think that they're deserving of if you're not cognizant of that all the time you're a fool and an ingrate and I'm enormous ly grateful

Channel: CBS Sunday Morning

Views: 988,574

Keywords: CBS Sunday Morning, CBS News, news, plaza suite, simon, jane pauley, matthew broderick, carrie bradshaw, ferris bueller

Id: dh2Wm3Jg3Ko

Length: 7min 46sec (466 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 29 2020