I Would Go To Trials A Lot

I Went To Acting School With Mario Van Peebles. For A Little While, He Was At The Same School. So He Asked Me If I Wanted To Do [ New Jack City]. He Said, "there's Not Really A Role. We'll Figure Something Out. But Would You Like To?" And I Was Like, "sure." 'cause He Said It Was Chris Rock And Ice T's First Movie.

You Get The Sense That [john] Hughes Is So Right About The Way Groups Divide And Then Divide Again And Then Sometimes Align And Then Sometimes Break Apart. And This Idea That Michael Hall's Character Says, "on Monday, Are We Going To Be Friends?" You Know, Based On This.

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.

John Hurt Was Incredible To Work With.

Stagecoach Is Really My First Western, Actually.