Broderick-Parker Son Shows Actor Bent

By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
With reports by Stephanie DuBois and Emily Feimster

Matthew Broderick says he wouldn't be surprised if his and wife Sarah Jessica Parker's five-year-old son, James, winds up becoming a performer. "He's a very good singer. He's funny. He's very convincing if he wants something. He just has these traits," says the proud dad.

Not that anyone's pushing show business at young James. In fact, Broderick admits, "I'm not too comfortable showing him our movies and stuff yet. I'm avoiding it for now. He's seen 'Bee Movie.' He's seen 'Lion King,' and he knows I'm doing the voice, but he barely understands that it's all actors."

Broderick has just come from soaking up some family time with his wife and son at the Deer Valley ski resort in Utah before diving into tub-thumping for "Then She Found Me," opening this Friday (4/25). The film, adapted from Elinor Lipman's novel of the same name, marked a reunion with Helen Hunt, who makes her directing debut with it. They met when they were in their young twenties and made "Project X," then they went on to become a couple, then broke up but stayed friends. Now, Matthew is playing the husband who dumps her, but then wants her back after she finds love with someone else (Colin Firth) -- as she copes with the surprise appearance of her birth mother (Bette Midler), and a pregnancy.

"It was sort of funny to be playing the heel," admits Matthew. "But, I think directing is a very good fit for Helen. We have talked about what kind of movies and acting we like for 20 years, so there were no surprises and she was always very generous."

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