Billy Crudup

And so then that's what the character has to do in a way that is impactful.

And so the way that Noah had written it, he was describing a kind of like method acting that is not the way that I work.

And the way that I work is, like I was saying before, storytelling.

I just want to try to tell the story that the writer...

has written that the director is trying to compose in a way that makes the audience become involved.

I don't try to manifest emotion.

If emotion comes in the playing of a scene, I'm not afraid of it, but the aim is to accomplish the story, the event of the scene.

Why is the scene in the movie?

Why is the scene in the play?

All right, let's make sure that the three of us as actors collude to make sure that event happens.

And then whatever happens in between, you're listening to each other.

And then you have something that is creatively novel because you're all trying to be witness to it at the same time.

And this one is saying, no, this event has to happen.

I kept telling, no, I'm not sure that I know how to do that.

So I told him, I'll tell you the way that I work.

And I think it could work in the same way.

And I describe it exactly the way that I did now, which is kind of long.

Yeah.

And he's listening very patiently to me.

I was actually in London doing a play at the time and they were shooting part of it in London.