Billy Crudup

Exactly.

That was it.

And, you know, at Carolina, I wasn't a theater major, even though I did theater because I knew my dad and my grandfather would not accept that.

So I was a speech communications major.

Wow.

what the hell did that mean?

It meant you took class in broadcasting and marketing and rhetoric, but they also, they had a performance studies concentration.

So I could take classes like oral interpretation of prose and poetry.

My dad thinks I'm doing marketing, but meanwhile, I'm figuring out how to do like a James Joyce short story as a performance.

I'm having a ball.

You

You're doing monologues.

I'm doing monologues.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And getting A's, most importantly, to make up for that not-so-stellar 1.7 GPA.

Yeah, that we started with.

Trying to right the ship.

So I did a lot of performing, and I also did work in the theater department there, where there were two teachers there, Susanna Reinhart and Didi Corvenes.

I took introduction to acting with them, and they were like, you can sign up for whatever class you want.

You have such an interest in this and you have so much energy.