Matthew Broderick says that he and Plaza Suite star Sarah Jessica Parker have avoided getting infected with COVID-19 for so long – and despite other cases in his family – that he has come to believe he is “one of those people who didn’t they understand. “
The actor appeared on Jess Cagel’s show on SiriusXM to talk about his experience with his wife Parker in a Broadway production. During the conversation, he revealed that he missed several performances of Neil Simon’s play after he had to be quarantined due to a positive COVID-19 test.
“It was really disappointing. We were so careful and we both never got it. Our daughter had it and somehow we didn’t understand it. Then my son got it around December, “Broderick said, pointing to the rise of the omicron variant. “We still missed him… I started to think I might be one of those people who didn’t understand it, but I was completely wrong.”
Both he and Parker tested positive for COVID-19 as opposed to days as they played each other on their Broadway show with limited engagement. As a result, several performances were canceled.
Speaking to Cagel and host Julia Cunningham, Broderick explained that he first noticed the symptoms the day he received a booster injection. “I got a booster – a second booster – and the other day I thought I should be sick of my booster, but then I coughed and every time I saw the side effects of the booster injection, there was nothing to cough about,” he said. So anyway, I got a booster and COVID the same day. “
“So your conspiracy theorists can understand this for me and send me a note,” he added, laughing.
Before detailing his experience with COVID-19, Broderick recalled the night Broadway was closed at the start of the pandemic in March 2020. The star said the Plaza Suite was at its last dress rehearsal when the producers came and announced that the then New York government, Andrew Cuomo, turned off the lights.
“We were in full suits and wigs and everything, but everyone felt that something was happening because I think basketball and hockey had stopped and we were pretending that the show was going to happen,” he said.
The producers gathered the audience and told the company that it was 5 pm and that Broadway was officially closed. “They said it would take two to four weeks, and then the producer told me, ‘It could be six to eight weeks between you and me, but don’t tell anyone. But we say two to four, “Broderick recalled. “Two years passed and I woke up with a very long white beard and it was in the same place again. The same costumes released maybe half an inch. ”
The Plaza Suite star continued to joke that “not everyone” had to undergo wardrobe adjustments, but that he eventually returned to his original measures. “I fit almost everything except my Act two pants. They said, “We’ll have to make you new pants,” Broderick told Cagle. “But I’m happy to say that after I started working again and everything that I shrank to my normal slightly fluffy self from two years ago.”
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