On Mad Men, it's Roger Sterling, the suave-as-hell, wisecracking, drinking machine played by John Slattery, who gets his somewhat annoying cousin-in-law played by Danny Strong a job at his ad agency. In reality, it's Slattery who'd like some help with a new gig.
Slattery, who has already wrapped filming on the final episodes of Mad Men premiering next month, talked about Strong, who co-created and serves as showrunner for Fox's smash hit Empire, in a new interview with The Daily Beast.
After reminiscing with the reporter about the episode where Strong's character punches Sterling in the balls during a party in Los Angeles, Slattery reaches out.
“That guy is on top of the world right now with Empire. If he reads this, ‘Danny, I need a job!’ He actually asked me if I wanted to be on Empire, and I think I let that ship sail. I don’t know who I would’ve played… some white dude.”
Yes, Roger Sterling could have been "some white dude" on Empire, and he turned it down.
In the immortal words of Adam Sandler:
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Do we really have to point out that Empire's weekly viewership (between 9 and 17 million people) during its first season dwarfed even the best ratings ever for Mad Men (3.37 million for the Season 6 premiere).