what are your thoughts on this guy? i personally think he's great, especially in this:
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I like this guy, hes got that tough face, looks like he could take a punch.
i liked him in jesus' son and almost famous, but i thought he was really dull in big fish
he did all he could in big fish: his character was simply too poorly written and one-dimensional.
all ive seen him in was AF and he was fucking perfect for that role.
I've seen him in Almost Famous, Big Fish, and The Sleepers. Of the the three, his role in Almost Famous is the only one worth noting. Second comes The Sleepers, I guess.
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This is his best role and performance. Robert Towne written and directed movie about Prefontaine. Great movie.
not to be confused with...
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sorry, my moms a runner and she saw both these.
is that Jared Leto?
Quote from: El Duderinois that Jared Leto?
Yes it is...
Thats one porn star sized stache Leto is sporting in that cover.
I forgot Without Limits...that one's pretty good, too, if I recall. Jared Leto just might have been a better Prefontaine, though.
i love the crudup..hes a cool cat..like penn, clooney, del toro, dafoe, bernal...
just a likeable onscreen mothaphucka........who can flat out act.........
my fav. performance is Jesus' Son.....please reissue this criterion...it so deserves it...crudup, hunter, black(in a good role),hopper,leary,morton..damn what a cast.........come on criterion....or what about a "Lion's Gate Signature Series"?.......
Crudup Wants To Remain Anonymous Off Screen
Hollywood actor Billy Crudup is keen to remain an enigma off screen - and has little interest in becoming a target for journalists. The Stage Beauty star, 36, believes the best actors are those who manage to keep their private lives out of the media glare - because it makes their screen performance more credible. Crudup says, "I want everything I'm in to be wildly successful, but I don't think that means I want everybody to know anything about me. The entire Hollywood publicity machine was built on 'whatever it takes to get our people out there' but, for me, I've had incredible opportunities to be able to play the roles I want to play, and make a living, so why do I need to pursue that? I'm not sure what it serves. I mean, what do you know about Robert DeNiro? The best actors are the actors we don't know anything about. If people know lots about me, then it becomes difficult for me to do my job of telling people I am someone else."
what, he's still alive?
How did Crudup go from "next big thing" to "whatever became of?"
Priceless.
Quote from: soixanteHow did Crudup go from "next big thing" to "whatever became of?"
Priceless.
He does more theater than movies nowadays. Punk.
"Waking the Dead" and "World Traveller" are two Oscar-ignored performances, in my book. They were also everyone-ignored movies, which is a damn shame.
I am aware that Crudup does theater, but he also does TV commercials for Visa, which is a sad waste of talent.
I thought Crudup should have won an Oscar for Jesus' Son. Five years ago, I thought he was going to be the next Daniel Day-Lewis, because of his chameleon-like quality. But his subsequent film choices have been questionable -- Charlotte Gray, for example, was boring.
Quote from: soixanteI am aware that Crudup does theater, but he also does TV commercials for Visa, which is a sad waste of talent.
On the other hand, doing those commercials is what allows him to do all the theater he wants without going broke and dying in a gutter somewhere.
On a related tangent, that first Mastercard commercial where you actually see him, where he plays the convenience store clerk, blew my mind. I had been hearing his voice in those damn commercials for years and had never made the connection that it was him.
On another related tangent, "Charlotte Gray"
was boring. And "Stage Beauty" wasn't great, either.
Billy Crudup is not poor. He doesn't need to do commercials. I know actors who do regional theater, and they work 40 hour a week jobs and then do theater on top of that. Crudup can make money doing movies anytime he wants. I realize the benefit of doing commercials is that much less time is required to do them than to shoot a movie. But that nagging thing called "artistic credibility" won't go away. Any time an actor does a commercial, it lessens his credibility. For example, I have less respect for Gene Hackman after he did the voice over for United Airlines.
It is strange that I find myself in the position of criticizing Crudup, because I admire his devotion to theater. He could have just cashed in and done a bunch of cheesy movies after Almost Famous, but he made some low-budget, uncommercial films, and focused on doing plays. That's great, but I still have trouble with actors doing commercials. I can understand it if you're just starting out (Dustin Hoffman, for example, did commercials when he was young and struggling).
It is also hard, if not impossible, for me to reconcile Billy Crudup the serious actor devoted to theater and Billy Crudup the corporate shill for Visa.
I just have a hard time begrudging anyone the ability to make money doing their job. Doing the commercials doesn't undo the film and theater work that he's done, and the commercials themselves are fairly tasteful -- nothing embarrassing or disreputable. So how is it wrong that, in addition to the artistically credible work he does, every once in a while he'll get paid a great big chunk of money for one day's work? Sure, acting is art, but it's also a job.
I just don't think serious actors should do TV commercials. I'm rather old fashioned that way. Selling out to the highest bidder and prostituting your talent is something to be ashamed of. I felt the same way when Eric Clapton did Michelob commercials.
for your information, billy crudup is poor.
Granted this is taken from Page Six, it would be great if it's true...
August 3, 2005 -- FINALLY, Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," the classic novel of the Beat Generation, is coming to the big screen. The men behind "The Motorcycle Diaries" — director Walter Salles and screenwriter Jose Rivera — are working on a script for producer Francis Ford Coppola, FoxNews.com's Roger Friedman reports. Billy Crudup (above) is set to star as legendary speed freak Neal Cassady, with Scarlett Johannson or Chloe Sevigny being talked about as Kerouac's girlfriend, Joyce Johnson.