James Wilkie Broderick, the 23-year-old son of actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, has clarified his career aspirations, stating he is not looking to become a model. The actor's comments come after he posted a series of photographs on Instagram in early June, which fueled speculation about a potential modeling career.
Broderick shared on his Instagram Story that he was "definitely not turning to a modeling career." He later reiterated this sentiment in a comment on a Backgrid Instagram post, writing, "I'm not tryna be a model lol!"
This statement followed an outing on Wednesday where Broderick was seen leaving S10 Training and Recovery, a luxury gym and spa in New York City's West Village. He was photographed wearing a white S10 tank top, black shorts, and high-top Converse sneakers.
The recent Instagram photoshoot was for multi-disciplinary artist Brad Walsh Abdallah's forthcoming book, FELLA: Images of Men. Broderick, a graduate of Brown University, had previously shared these images on June 1, describing the shoot as "dope."
Broderick recently returned from a trip to Donegal, Ireland. This excursion coincided with his role as Joe in the off-Broadway play "This Lime Tree Bower," which ran from July 16 to August 1 at Quick Eternity in Lower Manhattan. The play is set in a Dublin bar.
His mother, Sarah Jessica Parker, recently spoke about her own experiences in Dublin, mentioning she felt "foolishness" for not bringing back loaves from the John McCambridge Bakery and proudly sharing that she baked her first Irish soda bread. His father, Matthew Broderick, was involved in a fatal car accident in Northern Ireland in 1987, for which he was convicted of careless driving and fined.
Broderick also made a guest appearance as Carl in an episode of the CBS crime series "Elsbeth" last year, appearing alongside his father. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, who have been married for 29 years, are also parents to 17-year-old twin daughters, Tabitha Hodge and Loretta Elwell.
Parker has previously stated that she and Broderick do not intend to financially support their children indefinitely. She explained that they want their children to pursue challenging and gratifying endeavors and to become self-sufficient, both emotionally and financially. "You want for them to be pursuing things that are exciting and challenging and hard and gratifying," Parker told E. News last year. "And [we want them] to be able to ultimately take care of themselves, support themselves - emotionally, financially - and that they can be in the world and be a reliable person to themselves and to other people. And so we talk about work like that."
Parker is set to reprise her role as Sarah Sanderson in "Hocus Pocus 3." Matthew Broderick is scheduled to participate in a staged reading of Lawrence Kasdan's "The Big Chill" on August 31 and will begin filming a role in Kenneth Lonergan's drama "Tomorrow Is a Drag" this fall.