Matthew BRODERICK stars in "Finding Amanda" with Brittany Snow. He is 46 and has been married to Sarah Jessica Parker since 1997. He was in a suite on the 18th floor of the Regency Hotel, the preferred Upper East Side home of studio publicist press days.
You're rather gray!
I know. Yes. I got a big fright and I woke up and that was it. It's getting sort of sudden. Actually it's been coming on for some years, but only my hair colorist knew. I would sometimes dye it when I was doing a movie. But never on stage. I was fairly gray when I was doing "The Odd Couple." Do you have any in your face yet?
Yeah. I screamed the other day. Silver!
That one was weird. I used to not shave. But it's a little different when you have goat hair.
Are you working more than you want to be working?
No. I'm not. I worked a lot this last year or two. And I did a lot of smaller movies, which I enjoyed, but they're just as hard as big movies or harder on the actor in a way, because you have more pages to do and less time sometimes. Lately I had a little time off. And I have, I think, this whole summer off, and so does my wife. So hopefully we're going to have a real summer. I used to like to work all the time -- I like my breaks, I love traveling -- but particularly once you have a child, you start to be aware. This is his 5-year-old summer, and there won't be another.
Is he weighing in on scripts?
I wish he would. He will critique a movie that he sees. But he's very forgiving, you know. But he will describe in tremendous detail "Transformers" or the panda one, "Kung Fu Panda." He loved that. I saw "Speed Racer" with him.
Did he like that one? It's really candy-colored.
He seemed to like it. I grew up on the cartoon, so I was just very thrown that it was not the cartoon. But man, that was something. That was a crazy-looking movie.
You aren't going to take him to the Hamptons for your break -- that's no place for a child.
That's where he is. Right now.
Dear God. What will happen to him out there?
Well, he'll meet the people of the crust to which he ought to become accustomed. He'll make connections, hopefully. Find out where to invest after I'm gone. He has a great time out there, we're in Amagansett, we live on a street where there's lots of children. So he gets a community. We went out there the other day, and these little girls were blowing up balloons that you attach a little engine to and they go up in the air. And there he was for two hours.
