Ice-t Was Just A Pleasure To Work

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]."

[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.

Death Is Not My Best Subject.

There Was No One Really Like John Bender At My High School.

I Love The Rehearsal Process In The Theatre, And The Visceral Sense Of Contact And Communication With A Live Audience.