Dec 6, 2025
Billy Crudup opens up about method acting, fame and playing complex men on screen: ‘Re-traumatising yourself works’
Billy Crudup has played complicated men for nearly three decades, but the actor admits he rarely works in the full Method style. So when Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly required a breakdown in the middle of a bar – tears rolling as he read the words “truffle parmesan fries” – he had to dig into techniques he had avoided since drama school. Billy Crudup stars alongside George Clooney in Jay Kelly.…
