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Mia Sara Calls John Hughes ‘Strange,’ Returns, Lives Farm

6/24/2026

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Mia Sara Slams

Mia Sara said filming the 1986 “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” was poor and she clashed with John Hughes, calling him a “strange guy” who forced cast together.
Sara lives in an English farmhouse with husband Brian Henson and their two children.
She returned as Sarah Krantz in Mike Flanagan’s “The Life of Chuck,” will act again if needed, and disclosed a crush on Matthew Broderick, who was dating Jennifer Grey.

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Hughes Clashes

John Hughes tried to have the cast watch French New Wave films, which clashed with Sara’s prior exposure.
Sara said she was a “snotty New York kid” who had already seen those movies.
The interview about her Ferris Bueller experience was published in The Times of London and syndicated through Entertainment Weekly.
The article ran in a right-leaning outlet rated 35.06 and featured a missing advertisement placeholder.

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Mia Sara Poets

Sara now devotes most of her time to writing poetry, saying she never had the resilience for auditions.
She married puppeteer Brian Henson in 2010, sharing a daughter after 16 years together.
She also has a son from her previous marriage to actor Jason Connery.
In 2001 she appeared in the TV series Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story, directed by her husband Brian Henson.

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Mia Sara Slams

Mia Sara said filming the 1986 “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” was poor and she clashed with John Hughes, calling him a “strange guy” who forced cast together.
Sara lives in an English farmhouse with husband Brian Henson and their two children.
She returned as Sarah Krantz in Mike Flanagan’s “The Life of Chuck,” will act again if needed, and disclosed a crush on Matthew Broderick, who was dating Jennifer Grey.

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