Billy Crudup

I took the whole slew of classes in the acting department and I did performances there.

So I was around a lot of people, but we were undergraduates.

You're pretty removed.

Playmakers has a great repertory theater and they produce really good work, but it wasn't the same kind of thing as seeing...

These hyper ambitious, focused, obviously professionally talented people.

Robin Weigert, who's a fantastic actor, she did this monologue that she wrote that was an imagined discussion between, I hope I'm getting it right, but I think it was Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso.

And she was like Meryl Streep and she was in my class.

Yeah.

I just never seen anything like that.

It was incredible.

94, actually.

It was about six months after I graduated school, I landed a part in a Tom Stoppard play.

Arcadia?

Arcadia, yep.

That was at Lincoln Center.

Definitely.

And my friends and colleagues made sure to make me feel like I should be shocked.

Yeah.

Everybody was extremely happy for me.

You've done a couple.