Billy Crudup

Oh my God.

And that character in particular,

He's like this tutor to this 13 year old math prodigy.

He wants to be Byron.

He thinks of himself, he's like, ah, I'm a fucking tutor.

And so like, he's got to make all of his jokes to himself, but the audience gets to share in that.

So he's a great conduit for the audience and he's a romantic figure.

And then he dies saving her.

That's like winning the lottery, that part.

You come out of school into the professional life as this hero, this incredibly articulate, beautifully dressed byronic hero.

Yeah.

dangerous first hit.

Definitely nowhere to go but down from there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, that'll get you hooked.

We had a cast, Robert Sean Leonard, Victor Garber, Paul Giamatti, Jenny Dundas, fantastic actors up and down the line.

So there was a great support system in it.

I wasn't thinking about that, no.

The sort of training that I had implicitly or explicitly was...

suggesting that it might be a good idea to take as many different kinds of parts as possible so that you will build some level of versatility to combat the periods of time where you are uncastable, which just happens.