Ferris Bueller's Star Mia Sara Says Movie Wasn’t a “Good Experience”

It's been 40 years since "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

Life moves pretty fast.

And while filming Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in 1985, star Mia Sara hoped it would move even quicker. The 59-year-old, who played Sloane, revealed that she struggled to work with director John Hughes.

“I don’t really give interviews because making Ferris Bueller was not that good an experience for me,” Sara told The Times in an interview published on June 20. “But I’m very aware of what a precious thing this movie is, and I don’t want to disappoint people. But I didn’t get along well with John.”

The Timecop actress—who was only 17 when she was cast in the 1986 teen comedy—chalked it up to a personality clash, calling Hughes a “strange guy.”

“He wanted us all to hang out together and to introduce us to the French New Wave films,” she recalled. “But the others were seasoned actors and I was a snotty New York kid and had seen all those movies, so he was frustrated in that desire. I didn’t have the emotional maturity to deal with other people’s egos, or my own.”

And Sara isn’t the only actor who had a difficult dynamic with Hughes, who died in 2009 of a heart attack at the age of 59. While costars Matthew Broderick and Jennifer Grey detailed having a friendly relationship with the Breakfast Club director on set, Grey shared that Hughes severed ties after he found out they secretly dated while playing siblings on the film.

“Hughes was an unusual and special guy,” Grey—who was briefly engaged to Broderick before splitting in 1988 after nearly four years together—told The Times, “and I think he really didn’t love the surprise there.”

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Meanwhile, after her negative experience working on Ferris Bueller, Sara has largely taken a step back from the spotlight. Trading the Hollywood glam for a quieter life in England with husband Brian Henson, she admitted that acting was always difficult for her to pursue.

“I never really had the resilience to deal with the audition process,” she said. “There are some things in my career that I’m really proud of, but overall it was not a happy career for me.”

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