I Play A Garbage Man Who Moonlights

My Closest Friend Is Canine. I Have Precious Few Close Friends, And Most Of Them Are Not Actors

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.

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.

If You Read A Script Enough, Especially A Good Script - I Try To Read It 40 To 50 Times Before You Begin So You Get A Sense Of The Arc: What Happens Before, What Happens After, What Happens During.

We Tried The First Evening To Go Down Division Street And Rush Street, But We Couldn't Get In Anywhere Because They Didn't Like [ Emilio Estevez] Sneakers And They Didn't Like My Boots. This Was 1983 Or '84, So It Was Ridiculous. We Ended Up At A Jazz Club, Where You Go Downstairs And There's A Very Cool Place.