Oh, what might have been: According to a recent interview with The Daily Beast (via Entertainment Weekly), Mad Men‘s John Slattery says he was offered a role on Fox’s hit Empire. Unfortunately (because that would’ve been super weird), he turned it down, saying that he “let that ship sail.” As for who Slattery would’ve played, he doesn’t know, but he guesses that it would’ve been “some white dude.” Obviously that’s true, because who else would the soon-to-be-former Roger Sterling have played on Empire other than some white dude? He was basically born to play some white dude.