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I Was Just In A Few Episodes The First Season [ Of Empire]. They Didn't Kill Me, But I Haven't Been Back In Season Two Or Three. I Don't Know If They Have Plans For Me Or Not. But I Enjoyed Working On It. And I Think It's A Really Talented Group Of Actors And, Boy, Very Enterprising To Try And Shoot Those Every Week, You Know, With Musical Numbers And All That Stuff.

With Failure, You Just Try Again.

It's More Like The Inner Workings Of John Bender. He Feels Like He's Been Given A Short Shrift, He's Not Been Provided The Opportunities That Maybe These Other Kids Have. So He Feels Like He Begins In A Hole. And Instead Of Trying To Raise Himself Up, He Wants To Bring All Of Them Down. That's A Dynamic That's Pretty Universal. And So That Was The Real Foothold On That. It Wasn't Like, "oh, My High School Experience Is Like John Bender's [in St. Elmo's Fire]."

Breakfast Club Was Great Because We Had A Real Rehearsal, And We Shot Primarily In Sequence. I Thought That Was Going To Be How Movies Were Done. I Didn't Really Know How Lucky We All Were. We Had A Director That Liked Actors. I Didn't Know That Was Going To Be Rare.

You Can Do Crap Work In A Big Movie, And It Does Good Things. You Can Do Great Work In A Movie No One Sees, It Does Nothing. That's The Way It Goes.