[john Hurt] Just Really Gifted, And I

As They Were Building That Library In That School's Gym [in The Breakfast Club], They Built A Rehearsal Space For Us. It Was Really An Empty Room Taped Out With The Same Dimensions Of The Library. And They Had The Tables All There. And He Had Us Sitting At The Same Table. All Of Us.

[st. Elmo's Fire] It Was Pretty Soon After That. I Know We Didn't Do Breakfast Club Knowing We Were Going To Do That.

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.

I Enjoyed [playing Lawyer In From The Hip] As An Ode To My Dad. My Dad Went To Harvard And Harvard Law School, So He Had Some Friends That Practiced In Boston. So, There Was A Big Law Firm That He Hooked Me Up With The Senior Partner, Then The Senior Partner Hooked Me Up With A Young Lawyer Who Worked In The Firm. And The Young Lawyer Was Married To A Public Defender. So I Would Hang Out With Them, And I Could See Both Sides Of It, Those That Are Corporate Attorneys And Those That Help The Poor And The Disenfranchised.

It Was An Audition Process After Breakfast Club, And I Wasn't Really Sure I Wanted To Do The Movie. There Was A Bigger Role That Rob [lowe] Was Already Set To Play, So The Role They Wanted Me To Audition For Was Alec. [director] Joel Schumacher... This Is Back In The Days When You Could Trick Me With Things Like This. He Goes, "don't You Think You Can Play It?" And I Go, "okaaaaay." So Then I Did It For All The Wrong Reasons But I Don't Think I Would Fall For That Again. Who Knows. I Might.