Matthew Broderick is not any stranger to NYC’s glitz and glamour — but even he’s had some scary run-ins with muggers within the Big Apple.
The “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” star, 61, revealed he was “mugged often” during his childhood in Latest York, and every time chalked it as much as being “a young guy.”
“I got mugged often! I’ve been mugged all through the Village, Times Square, Upper West Side,” he said on Tuesday’s episode of the iHeartPodcast Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi. “I never had any money! And folks continually wanted [to mug me].”
“I’m talking like 12 [years old] — that’s when it happened quite a bit,” said the actor, who grew up on Washington Square North.
“It was mostly other boys just being bullies and getting lunch money or something like that. But sometimes it was somewhat scary.”
Recalling one incident, Broderick said he and a friend were skateboarding in Central Park and a “massive gang got here flying out” before robbing them.
“I got whacked in the pinnacle with some kind of stick! It was not a joke. Thank God, all of us survived it,” he added.
Broderick said that the opposite times he was mugged were different, as thugs threatened to “put his head through the glass” if he refused at hand his belongings over.
“You get on the subway and any individual will sit next to you and put their arm around you fairly aggressively and say, ‘What’s in your pocket?’ What’s your name?’ — just be like asking you a number of questions,” he shared.
“[You’re] just waiting, praying for the train to come back out of the tunnel on the platform.”
And despite the fact that he told his parents in regards to the mugging “a couple of times,” there wasn’t much they might do about it.
“Back then, they weren’t as watchful as we’re to our youngsters [nowadays],” he said, adding, “They were kinda like, ‘Go to a park and are available in meal time.’ And that was it.”
Broderick has been married to “Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker since 1997.
The pair share three children together: son James Wilkie, 20, and 13-year-old twin daughters Marion and Tabitha.
