Billy Crudup

I have.

His writing is just unusual.

He's got a fascinating mind.

And English is his second language or maybe his third or fourth.

I'm not sure.

I think he was born in Czechoslovakia.

His attendance to language is just unusual.

He thinks on different levels at the same time.

And he was actually there for rehearsals.

Trevor Numb was directing it.

I used to watch these tapes called Acting Shakespeare.

They were like VHS tapes that had the Royal Shakespeare Company.

And Trevor Numb was the youngest, at that time, I think, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, talking about monologues.

And it was like Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren.

Just brilliant.

badasses.

And so all of a sudden, this guy that I was watching in high school talk about text and language and how to lift it and perform it and celebrate it was directing me in this Tom Stoppard play.

And Tom Stoppard's there.

So Tom Stoppard, back to the point about his use of language, I tried to say very little because I did not want to get fired.

And I was like, sorry, Tom, is that a double entendre there?