How Billy Crudup turned an 8-minute scene in 'Jay Kelly' into the performance of his career
LOS ANGELES " Billy Crudup knew the first time he read it that the part was nearly impossible. In Noah Baumbach's sharply funny, at times melancholy Hollywood satire "Jay Kelly," George Clooney plays an aging movie star reckoning with what his success has cost him. Early in the film, a chance reunion with an old acting-class buddy named Timothy, played by Crudup, sends him into an existential ...