Billy Crudup

Even before that, actually at camp.

Anytime somebody said, does anybody in this class want to put on a costume?

I'd be like, yep, I'll do that.

That's not a problem.

That one's for the new guy.

I was the new guy trying to fit in and class clown was my angle.

Nice.

And so anytime I got a part in anything, I was happy to humiliate myself for it.

Did it do anything though, as far as preventing you from creating deep friendships?

I have some lasting friendships from the time I was born to my oldest, best friend, Rayfield Pemperod, fourth grade, Dallas, Texas.

We're still extremely tight.

Had dinner with him two weeks ago and still have fantastic friends from high school and college.

I became possessive of those friendships.

I realized that people around me had been friends since first grade.

And when I started to see that, I would reach out to Rafe.

When we reconnected in high school and then when I was in college and subsequently thereafter, you'd have periods of time where you'd build different friendships.

But it was really important to

to me to return to those friendships.

So in a way, it did build a skill of attending to your friendships in whatever way you can.

Yeah.