Billy Crudup

Mask work, yes.

That's mask work 101.

Neutral mask, we call that.

Oh, no.

Could you not remember walking around campus with a mask on?

I know.

No, that's cute.

I mean, that's like hazing stuff.

It is.

Acting is already so humiliating.

I know.

It's so embarrassing.

It's not a bad idea in general to get you used to the idea of rejection, which was a common denominator for us as actors for the rest of your life.

I wasn't until the first day of acting school when you have something called showings where the incoming class does the monologues that they did to get into school.

And this is the first year, second year, and third year.

The second year does scene work and the third year does whatever they end up doing, whether it's a personal piece or scene work.

When I saw a collection of 60 other young people who were actually invested and interested in a craft and I saw the shit that they were doing, I thought, oh no, that's exactly what I want to do.

I just needed to be around people who were taking it seriously.

Now, at the time, I was targeted to get my master's, et cetera, but there was no question that they rung a bell in me.

Well, now it wasn't a pipe dream.