Matthew Broderick Says He Turned Down SATC Role as the "Premature Ejaculator"

Matthew Broderick couldn't help but wonder if he should have been on Sex and the City?

Although looking back, the Ferris Bueller's Day Off star had a pretty good reason for never appearing on wife Sarah Jessica Parker's iconic series.

"Whenever there was a part that I could do," Matthew explained on This Life of Mine with James Corden Oct. 3, "I couldn't do it, is really all that happened."

But as the 62-year-old joked, "Sometimes, it was like, 'Do you want to do two days as the premature ejaculator?' And I'd be, you know, 'Well, I don't know. It's just kind of embarrassing.'" 

The role ultimately went to Justin Theroux, who played the character Vaughn Wysel on season two.

And despite being married to Carrie Bradshaw herself, Matthew revealed that the offers wouldn't come from Sarah—who starred on Sex and the City from 1998 to 2004—but would come through his agent, adding the show was "very professional."

Still, he lamented, "I wish that I had done it or, or been in it."

Plus, he's also very aware that the series very much belonged to Sarah, 59, with whom he shares son James, 21, and twin daughters Tabitha and Marion, 13.

"That was her thing, and that would be stunting me or something, I don't know," he said. "It just never worked out."

Matthew explained, "I love that show and I would have been delighted to be in it, but it just never lined up right."

While the two didn't get to work together on the small screen, the couple—who first met in 1991 and have been married for 27 years—have appeared together on stage: in 1996 for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and more recently in 2022 for Plaza Suite.

And getting the chance to work together again was something the couple relished.

"Her way of working is very compatible for me," Matthew told The Telegraph in January. "I find her very easy to [work with] and I'm very impressed by her. I think she's tremendously good."

Despite the fact that they were playing a less than happy couple in the Neil Simon play, their roles didn't make them do too much of a deep dive into their own relationship.

"Boy, you would think it would," he quipped, "but I don't know that it has… It's more about depending on each other onstage that's educational. How to help the other person and not take things personally. How to work together well is probably a good exercise for a couple."

To see more of Matthew and Sarah's love story over the years, keep reading.

The two attend the opening night of Plaza Suite.

The pair appear with their kids James Wilkie Broderick, 20, and twins Tabitha Hodge Broderick and Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick, 13, at the premiere of the Broadway musical Some Like It Hot.

The two arrive at the New York City Ballet's 2017 Fall Fashion Gala.

The two attend the Irish Repertory Theatre's YEATS: The Celebration at Town Hall in New York City.

The two and their son James Wilkie Broderick attend the press night for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Theatre Royal in London.

The two attend the annual Serpentine Gallery Summer Party, co-hosted by L'Wren Scott, at The Serpentine Gallery in London.

The couple and their son James Wilkie Broderick attend the New York City premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—Part 1.

The two arrive on the red carpet.

The two pose on the red carpet.

The pair attend the awards ceremony.

The two are spotted at the New York City screening.

The couple celebrates the actor's win for Best Actor in a Musical for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

The couple arrives at the awards ceremony.