Billy Crudup's Embarrassing Celebrity Fails

Billy Crudup chats with Jimmy about some of his most embarrassing attempts to use his celebrity to meet people he admires like Peyton Manning and Robert Plant.

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Billy Crudup's Embarrassing Celebrity Fails

[deadshow]

That's a real actor right there. Not very famous, but always doing great movies. He blends so well in his characters, you see a movie, you know he's there but he somehow isn't...such an underrated talent.

[fede]

He has a great personality, and as an actor he is the best character in The Morning Show by far

[mustangCE]

Almost Famous is one of my all-time favorite movies. Cheers to the Uncool.

[Sunshine_Ses]

His personality and the story and his little dance at the end had me cracking up. 🤣

[TalkAsSoftAsChalk]

I can feel his aura. It is this beautiful purple colour.

[TalkAsSoftAsChalk]

I was smiling throughout this whole video!

[Mia]

Love that story. Billy Crudup is one of my favorite actors.

[thesuperframe]

If I were going to cast a creepy charming man in a movie, it'd be him, he pulls of sinister yet likeable and it makes my neck crawl aha

[Emilydee]

lmao loved the robert plant story. billy's so cute like a kid

[bory_]

This man has such great energy! It’s so addicting 😍

[SunnyBear]

LOVE that film so much! And I love how fanboy-mode took over him haha!

[Denis-]

They should do an "Almost Famous" reunion on the show! Like seriously

[marsdent]

What makes it funnier is you can hear everything he's whispering.

[NymulAhmed]

how dare you not recognize Dr. Manhattan ?!

[TalkAsSoftAsChalk]

This just makes me want to watch Almost Famous again.

[swatsoninchina]

Love Billy! His performance in BIG FISH was brilliant as well.

[manguy]

Wow, people didn't really clap for Robert Plant until they realized he was with Zep..and then "oh we are supposed to scream here and pretend we are fans and we know what's going on"

[jessiestark]

He was great in 1 mile to you. Such a great character. Love big fish.

[zlamelie]

LOL loved this story. This is exactly how I would be acting if I saw Percy. 🤣❤️

I've been watching The Morning Show and thinking this guy is cool. Tonight I've started watching Where'd you go, Bernadette and saw he's in that too. I decided to Google him and was super surprised to find out he's the Golden God from Almost Famous, which is one of my fav movies. I then, googled him some more and ended up on this particular video and I cannot believe this super funny story is about my FAV person of all time, Mr. Robert Plant.
Crudup, we're obvs meant to be. :)

[jaykay]

Great, underrated actor. Should have had a bigger film career than ended up having. One of the few actors who can really create, flesh out and inhabit characters. Russell Hammond and Steve Prefontaine in Without Limits were remarkable performances. Even the way he handled that story in the clip was far beyond what a typical performer is capable of in an interview setting.