Billy Crudup

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q313650: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Princess Mononoke (1997); Without Limits (1998); Almost Famous (2000); Big Fish (2003); Mission: Impossible III (2006); Public Enemies (2009); 20th Century Women (2016); Alien: Covenant (2017); Justice League (Snyder Cut) (2021).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Aliens (1986): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Alien: Covenant (2017), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). The shoulder-mounted GoPro cameras are carried over from the Marines in Aliens.
    “which the Marines all have in aliens”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:40:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Alien: Covenant (2017), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). The loader and airlock set piece homages the power loader fight in Aliens.
    “But something about this feels closer to the power loader fight.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:55:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Back to the Future Part II (1989): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Alien: Covenant (2017), which they acted in: Back to the Future Part II ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). The double-Fassbender effect is an old trick established by Zemeckis in Back to the Future II.
    “once again, shit established by Zameckis and back to the future too.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:09:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Forrest Gump (1994): 1 line

  1. unmapped (attempt at a Gump) · through Big Fish (2003), which they acted in: Forrest Gump ⇒ Big Fish (the host's read). Studios kept trying to replicate Gump; Big Fish was one attempt.
    “And Big Fish is an attempt at a gump.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:10:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Mills's sister: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through 20th Century Women (2016), which they acted in: Mills's sister ⇒ 20th Century Women (the maker said so: Mike Mills interview on the episode). The Greta character in 20th Century Women is based on one of his sisters.
    “the Greta character is really based on one of my sisters”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:25:36 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Prometheus (2012): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Alien: Covenant (2017), which they acted in: Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie.
    “this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

The Martian (2015): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Alien: Covenant (2017), which they acted in: The Martian ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). The Martian's success gave Scott leverage to make an odder Alien film.
    “I forgot that the previous film to this is the Martian”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:19:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Garden State (2004): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Almost Famous (2000), which they acted in: Almost Famous ⇒ Garden State (the host's read). Almost Famous, more than Vanilla Sky, gave birth to the Garden State style.
    “Well, probably almost famous gave birth to garden state more than this did.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:18:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (12) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career): Billy Crudup → 20th Century Women. Crudup is better since embracing the unsettling and the broken, as in 20th Century Women.
    “Yeah, or even 20th century woman where he's nice, weird, but, you know, just weird.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:21:37 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Billy Crudup → Almost Famous. Crudup had his moment as the charming lead of Almost Famous.
    “I mean, obviously, I think Kritup is charming and like almost famous.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:22:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Billy Crudup → Big Fish. He loved Crudup's Big Fish performance until the podcast rewatch.
    “It is so bizarre how thoroughly I loved that performance.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:22:52 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Billy Crudup → Little Miss Sunshine. Crudup and Kinnear are both pretty men with unreal bone structure who got more interesting with age.
    “Like, crewed up and Kinnear were both just sort of like dudes with like unreal bone structure”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:22:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Billy Crudup → Alien: Covenant. Crudup's calm comes from faith, not programming, so he plays an Android-like leader without being one.
    “Crudup does kind of have classic alien franchise Android energy, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:07:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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