In a new interview with The Daily Beast John Slattery says he was offered a role on Fox’s Empire by writer and co-creator Danny Strong, but turned it down.
Slattery be-friend Strong, who also worked on Lee Daniels’ The Butler, when he appeared on Mad Men as Danny Siegel, A.V. Club notes.
"That's Danny Strong who punches me in the balls!" Slattery says of Strong's character in Mad Men. "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.”
Although the Mad Men star missed out on a hit show, he will not have any shortage of work, Entertainment Weekly notes.
Slattery is set to appear in another Netflix reboot of Wet Hot American Summer alongside fellow Mad Men co-star Jon Hamm.
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