‘WE DIDN’T WANT HIM TO BE PUNCHABLE!’: MATTHEW BRODERICK AND ALAN RUCK ON FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF
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According to Culture | The Guardian, ‘Alan and I have neat hair because we’d both just been in a military play.
The available RSS description adds: If we’d had crazy 1980s mullets, it wouldn’t have become a timeless classic’ I’d done WarGames and Ladyhawke and was getting sent a lot of “young guy” parts.
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‘Alan and I have neat hair because we’d both just been in a military play. If we’d had crazy 1980s mullets, it wouldn’t have become a timeless classic’ I’d done WarGames and Ladyhawke and was getting sent a lot of “young guy” parts.
I was a little concerned at first because Ferris talks to the audience – I’d done that in two plays and didn’t want to it to seem like that’s all I could do. Meanwhile, my agent said: “You’ve been asked to do a John Hughes movie. You’re doing it.” I didn’t know much about John at the time but I kept hearing him being referred to as the “Spielberg of teen films”.
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- Culture | The Guardian: ‘Alan and I have neat hair because we’d both just been in a military play.
- Culture | The Guardian: If we’d had crazy 1980s mullets, it wouldn’t have become a timeless classic’ I’d done WarGames and Ladyhawke and was getting sent a lot of “young guy” parts.
- Culture | The Guardian: I was a little concerned at first because Ferris talks to the audience – I’d done that in two plays and didn’t want to it to seem like that’s all I could do.
- Culture | The Guardian: Meanwhile, my agent said: “You’ve been asked to do a John Hughes movie.
- Culture | The Guardian: You’re doing it.” I didn’t know much about John at the time but I kept hearing him being referred to as the “Spielberg of teen films”.
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- Topic: CULTURE — the feed headline centres on DIDN, WANT, PUNCHABLE, MATTHEW, BRODERICK.
- Original feed: Culture | The Guardian.
- Published: 20 Jul 2026, 13:58 UK.
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- 20/07/2026, 13:58 PRIMARY FEED ‘WE DIDN’T WANT HIM TO BE PUNCHABLE!’: MATTHEW BRODERICK AND ALAN RUCK ON FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (Culture | The Guardian • 14 hrs ago) [Story Intel]
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