Father and Son Duo Matthew Broderick and James Wilkie Broderick Star Alongside Every Different in New ‘Elsbeth’ Episode

No, you’re not seeing two of Matthew Broderick within the new episode of Elsbeth, the lookalike is James Wilkie Broderick, his eldest son!

Every week, the CBS dramedy starring Carrie Preston welcomes a well-known visitor to play a assassin, one who’s all the time foiled by the titular character (Preston). Within the February 20 episode, “Foiled Once more,” that visitor is none apart from the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off star, who brings his distinctive zeal, in addition to his personal son with spouse Sarah Jessica Parker.

“Whereas investigating the mysterious loss of life of a faculty admissions officer, Elsbeth finds herself fencing with Lawrence Gray (Matthew Broderick), an impartial instructional guide who guarantees an Ivy League future to high-paying shoppers and their painfully common youngsters,” an episode description reads.

For his personal half, the youthful Broderick performs Carl, a prime “success coach” at Lawrence’s firm. A clip launched forward of the episode sees the father-son duo performing reverse one another for the primary time and equally enjoying suspect as Elsbeth investigates. This week’s murdered celebration is a cohort of Matthew’s character, a fellow instructional guide on the planet of Manhattan’s upscale academia.

In an interview with PEOPLE for the episode, Matthew mentioned, “I used to be so proud and joyful to work with my son James […] Working with everybody on Elsbeth was a pleasure and I’m excited for the episode to return out.”

The youthful Broderick added, “What a thrill it was to work aspect by aspect with my dad — who additionally occurs to be my favourite actor! The entire expertise of engaged on Elsbeth was past thrilling and I’m very grateful to the producers for giving me this chance!”

James is the eldest of Matthew and SJP’s three youngsters and was born in 2002, 5 years into their now nearly three-decades-long marriage. The pair additionally share twin daughters, Marion and Tabitha, who had been born in 2009 and have but to make their very own on-screen debuts.

Matthew’s visitor starring function comes simply two episodes after his Ferris Bueller’s Day Off co-star Alan Ruck made his personal look on The Good Spouse spinoff. In “Finance Bros,” Ruck performed a set of dual buyers whose relationship hit a snafu as one determined to mellow out about earning profits and the opposite didn’t take it properly. In that installment, Ruck had the distinctive alternative to homicide himself, enjoying each the killer and sufferer within the present.

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Whereas the Brodericks showing collectively within the new episode is actually notable, it isn’t the primary time relations have shared the display screen this season. Preston’s personal real-life husband, Michael Emerson, has additionally appeared in a number of episodes as Milton Crawford, a murderous choose who has it out for Elsbeth.

Earlier within the season, Decider sat down with the husband and spouse of 26 years and so they teased a season-long battle between their characters. The duo — who’ve shared the display screen on quite a few different events — additionally opened up in regards to the enjoyable of enjoying enemies with their important different.

“These scenes are extra enjoyable to play regardless of who you’re enjoying with. Then so as to add that it’s somebody that I do know and belief and have a historical past with, you’re feeling extra inventive freedom with that,” Preston mentioned. “I don’t have to fret, ‘What is that this man going to suppose if I throw some curveball at him?’ We didn’t have that downside.”

“When there’s hazard within the air, it’s like oxygen to an actor,” added Emerson. “That’s when you may sort of decelerate and savor that. Hazard and innuendo of the scene, all of the signaling and subtext-ing that’s occurring.”

The brand new episode of Elsbeth starring Matthew and James Wilkie Broderick premieres on CBS on Thursday, February 20 at 10 p.m. ET. Episodes stream the following day on Paramount+.