Matthew Broderick’s title character in the 1986 high school classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off became so iconic that it’s still the role he’s most closely associated with. The 54-year-old native New Yorker can currently be seen as a senior driver to Beatty’s eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes in Rules, a role Broderick told us he scored after literally having a sleepover at the Hollywood Hills home of Beatty and wife/costar Annette Bening. Broderick can also be seen in a small role in Kenneth Lonergan’s heartbreaking new drama Manchester by the Sea — the actor and director’s third collaboration after You Can Count on Me (2000) and Margaret (2011).
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Rules Don’t Apply is Warren Beatty’s first movie in 15 years. Bening — who has a small role in Rules — had an up-close and personal look at Beatty’s decades-in-the-works passion project, a film he wrote, directed, produced, and also stars in as the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. “I’m just so happy that he made the film,” Bening told Yahoo Movies during our recent Role Recall interview (watch above).
The new romantic dramedy Rules Don’t Apply marks the first film in 15 years from Warren Beatty, who wrote, directed, produced, and stars in the picture as eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. Just as central to the film, however, are young leads Alden Ehrenreich and Lily Collins. Collins (Mortal Instruments) plays Marla Mabrey, a straight-edged singer-actress from rural Virginia who moves to Hollywood in the 1950s under the “employment” of Hughes, who was infamous for keeping a small army of beautiful actresses under contract for his production studio, RKO Pictures, even if he didn’t have any films for them.
Tune into the Yahoo Movies Facebook page Friday at 1:30 p.m. ET/10:30 a.m. PT for a live chat with ‘Rules Don’t Apply’ stars Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich. Marla Mabrey is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day — or at least a crisis of confidence — where our exclusive clip from the new Old Hollywood romance Rules Don’t Apply (watch above) picks up. “I feel old,” says the character, played by 27-year-old Lily Collins.
By Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter At this point, Warren Beatty has been off the big screen for 15 years — or five years longer than Howard Hughes, the man he plays in his new serio-comedy Rules Don’t Apply, was a recluse so mysteriously out of the public eye. ...