Billy Crudup

I don't have any problem having that kind of discussion if I don't understand the story.

This one was more about accommodating my ability to tell it in a way.

And I'm like, but no, I'm a 57-year-old actor.

I've been doing it for so long.

That's great that you do that.

But this character that I wrote that you're going to come play, does it different?

Precisely.

It was.

It was really great.

And to be asked to do something that you don't know how to do, that's a big gift.

But the reason why I'm saying all of this is because that's the pretext for George's character to go on a journey of discovery.

So if I don't make that work...

Him going away dramaturgically doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Failure to launch, we'd call it.

It was a really great experience.

And I had known George and wanted to work with George.

But moreover, the stories about George and Adam Sandler and their partnership is...

Sandler is his longtime agent and Laura Dern is his publicist.

I mean, there is.

a murderer's row in that cast of great actors and Noah the way that he described it he was feeling somewhat disenchanted with movie making after he made a film called White Noise and it wasn't received in the way that he imagined it would be received or the story didn't land in the way that he had hoped that it would land and felt kind of cynical about it and this is sort of a beautiful not necessarily love letter but description of the carnival life that we lead it's gilded with the George Clooney charm and also a