Matthew Broderick says that he and Plaza Suite costar Sarah Jessica Parker had averted contracting COVID-19 for therefore lengthy — and regardless of different instances in his household — that he started to consider he “was one among these individuals who doesn’t get it.”
The actor appeared on SiriusXM’s Jess Cagle Present to speak about his expertise starring reverse his spouse, Parker, within the Broadway manufacturing. In the course of the dialog, he opened up about lacking a number of performances of the Neil Simon play after having to quarantine as a result of testing constructive for COVID-19.
“It was actually disappointing. We’d been so cautious and we each by no means bought it. Our daughter had it and in some way we didn’t get it. Then my son bought it round December,” Broderick stated, pointing to the rise of the omicron variant. “We nonetheless missed it … I began to suppose perhaps I used to be one among these individuals who doesn’t get it, however I used to be fully mistaken.”
Each he and Parker examined constructive for COVID-19 days aside whereas starring reverse each other of their restricted engagement Broadway present. A number of performances have been canceled because of this.
Whereas chatting with Cagle and cohost Julia Cunningham, Broderick went on to clarify that he first observed signs the day he bought a booster shot. “I bought a booster — a second booster — and that day I assumed I have to be sick due to my booster, however then I used to be coughing and each time I seemed up negative effects from the booster shot, there was nothing about having a cough,” he stated. “So anyway, I bought a booster and COVID on the identical day.”
“So your conspiracy theorists can determine that one out for me and ship me a notice,” he added, laughing.
Earlier than detailing his expertise with COVID-19, Broderick additionally recalled the night time Broadway shut down firstly of the pandemic again in March 2020. The star stated Plaza Suite was in its last costume rehearsal when producers got here in and introduced that then New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was turning the lights off.
“We have been in full costume and wigs and every part and however all people sensed one thing was occurring as a result of, I believe, basketball and hockey had stopped and there we have been, pretending that the present goes to occur,” he recounted.
Producers gathered the forged within the viewers and advised the corporate that it was 5 p.m. and that Broadway has formally shut down. “They stated, it’s going to be two to 4 weeks after which the producer stated to me, ‘Between you and me, it may be six to eight weeks, however don’t inform anybody. However we’re saying two to 4,” Broderick recalled. “Two years handed and I wakened with a really lengthy white beard and it was again in the identical spot. Identical costumes, let loose perhaps a half an inch.”
The Plaza Suite star went on to joke that “not all people” needed to bear wardrobe changes, however that he finally bought again to his unique measurements. “I match virtually every part besides my act two pants. They stated, ‘We’re going to must construct you some new pants,’” Broderick advised Cagle. “However I’m comfortable to say as soon as I bought working once more and all I shrank right down to my regular barely pudgy self from two years earlier.”