Matthew Broderick interview: Plaza Suite (The Telegraph)

Ahead of a West End play about marriage – opposite his wife Sarah Jessica Parker – the actor talks family, fame and Ferris Bueller

‘I think you stink,’ yells Sarah Jessica Parker at her husband Matthew Broderick. ‘You’re a vain, self-pitying, deceiving 10-pound box of rancid no-cal cottage cheese.’

‘Swell,’ responds Broderick glibly, taking the abuse in his stride.

Fortunately this is not a scene from real life, in which the couple have been married for nearly 26 years – but from Plaza Suite, the Neil Simon production which opens in London on 17 January. A trio of one-act plays, which premiered in 1968, Broderick and Parker play three different couples at varying moments of crisis in their relationships.