Broderick Talks Stepford Battles
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Matthew Broderick, who stars in the upcoming remake of The Stepford Wives, admitted to SCI FI Wire that tempers sometimes flared on the set of the SF movie, a satiric take on Ira Levin’s novel and the original 1975 film. But Broderick added that he did not witness the reported battles between director Frank Oz and co-stars Bette Midler, Nicole Kidman and Christopher Walken. “I didn’t notice,” Broderick said. “I honestly wasn’t there. I know there were some moments of disagreement, but I really wasn’t there.”
The New York Times on June 6 reported that the production “was plagued by contention between Mr. Oz and the actors.” But, Broderick added, “I wasn’t there in the scenes that [the fights] would have happened in. Everybody who has been in this business for a long time [knows] you can’t do a movie and not have a disagreement every now and then. Comparing it to other movies, I would say this was rather on the low end of tension. Most of the time I found that everybody got along very, very well.” The Stepford Wives opens June 11.
