John C. McGinley has had a 40-year profession that’s taken him in every single place from the defunct cleaning soap One other World, to repeated collaborations with director Oliver Stone in movies like Platoon and Wall Avenue, to the ’90s surf-thriller Level Break, to 9 seasons as one of many stars of medical comedy Scrubs. The instantly-recognizable actor is a seasoned professional who has shared the display screen with celebrities from Keanu Reeves to Sean Connery, however he nonetheless vividly remembers the second in his personal profession when he felt most star-struck — and it didn’t happen on a set. Quite, as he recounted in a latest interview with Channel Information, it occurred backstage at a Billy Joel live performance, when McGinley met the Piano Man himself — who then made an odd request of the actor.
“I used to be capturing a medical comedy in Kansas Metropolis, Article 99, with Kiefer [Sutherland] and Ray [Liotta], relaxation in peace,” McGinley instructed Channel Information. “Billy Joel was coming to city. So, we acquired to go to the present after which go backstage.”
