Matthew Broderick is not any stranger to NYC’s glitz and glamour — however even he’s had some scary run-ins with muggers within the Large Apple.
The “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” star, 61, revealed he was “mugged typically” throughout his childhood in New York, and every time chalked it as much as being “a younger man.”
“I acquired mugged typically! I’ve been mugged all by means of the Village, Occasions Sq., Higher West Facet,” he mentioned on Tuesday’s episode of the iHeartPodcast Desk for Two with Bruce Bozzi. “I by no means had any cash! And other people continually needed [to mug me].”
“I’m speaking like 12 [years old] — that’s when it occurred so much,” mentioned the actor, who grew up on Washington Sq. North.
“It was largely different boys simply being bullies and getting lunch cash or one thing like that. However typically it was considerably scary.”
Recalling one incident, Broderick mentioned he and a pal had been skateboarding in Central Park and a “large gang got here flying out” earlier than robbing them.
“I acquired whacked within the head with some kind of stick! It was not a joke. Thank God, all of us survived it,” he added.
Broderick mentioned that the opposite occasions he was mugged had been completely different, as thugs threatened to “put his head by means of the glass” if he refused handy his belongings over.
“You get on the subway and someone will sit subsequent to you and put their arm round you slightly aggressively and say, ‘What’s in your pocket?’ What’s your identify?’ — simply be like asking you loads of questions,” he shared.
“[You’re] simply ready, praying for the prepare to return out of the tunnel on the platform.”
And although he instructed his dad and mom in regards to the mugging “a few times,” there wasn’t a lot they may do about it.
“Again then, they weren’t as watchful as we’re to our youngsters [nowadays],” he mentioned, including, “They had been kinda like, ‘Go to a park and are available supper time.’ And that was it.”
Broderick has been married to “Intercourse and the Metropolis” star Sarah Jessica Parker since 1997.
The pair share three youngsters collectively: son James Wilkie, 20, and 13-year-old twin daughters Marion and Tabitha.