Billy Crudup

Ron Eldard and myself, our characters did not turn out well.

We became a part of the Westies.

We were all molested and beaten.

So Brad Pitt was able to get out of it in some way.

Jason Patrick was able to get out of it in some way.

But Ron and I got caught up in it.

In any case, we were paired up for most of the scenes.

He had a very similar approach to acting that I did.

We were really acting nerds.

That was a safety net for me.

We talked shop a lot, sat there marveling over De Niro on the stand playing a scene.

You know, we could barely hear him and watching him work.

Did you have the type of personality that you try to talk to these folks between takes?

No, I mean, Dustin Hoffman, he played our lawyer.

So he would talk to us and he was extremely entertaining, often trying to steal our lines.

I might add, Dustin.

Not his first rodeo.

But he was incredibly charming.

And my mom came to set one day and he made this big thing of like jumping over the, what do you call them?

Benches or what's in the courtroom where the people sit.