I Was Trained By Stella Adler For

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

I Went To Acting School In New York City For Two Years. I Studied With Stella Adler

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]."

The Dark Backward. Bill Paxton Is In It With Me. Wayne Newton. James Caan. Adam Rifkin Wrote And Directed It. It Was Made A Number Of Years Ago And Very Odd. Not For The Squeamish.

[john] Hughes Was Open To That [rehearsal]. This Can Only Happen If The Director And/or The Writer Are Open To That.