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Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa

Billy Crudup: Born Charming

Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa

SiriusXM Podcasts and Poppy Media, LLC

Kelly Ripa, Celebrity, Pop Culture, Society & Culture, Kellyripa, Kelly, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.73.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Star of stage and screen, Billy Crudup, joins Kelly to talk about giving the NYU commencement speech, accidentally ending up at Gay Ski Week and meeting his now wife Naomi Watts while working together on GYPSY. He shares the worst theater experience of his life, his work on THE MORNING SHOW and his new film with George Clooney, JAY KELLY.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So Naomi said,

0:03.0

Gabby, I mean, Billy thinks that I'm sure nobody even saw

0:08.0

and she goes, I was there.

0:12.0

And she goes, the worst theatrical experience of my life.

0:17.0

No.

0:18.0

I was like, Gabby, what about for me?

0:20.0

Somebody got to cue me or do I cue myself? Chew yourself. No. I was like, Gabby, what about for me?

0:38.7

Somebody got to cue me or do I cue myself? Chee yourself. Okay. Hey, everybody, we're back with Let's Talk Off Camera, so let's get talking. Oh my gosh. I cannot believe. I only heard about it on the show today of your fucking dinner with Richard here. Yes. Wait, Can we get into that?

0:40.2

Because that is insane.

0:38.7

There's a certain... of your fucking dinner with Richard Gere. Yes. Can we get into that?

0:40.2

Because that is insane.

0:47.1

There's a certain level of propriety that comes, I think, from just being talk show host,

0:52.1

you bend over backwards to like make it easy for the people you're interviewing. Right.

0:52.7

So when Sir Richard Gear

0:54.3

told, we told the story about us having dinner on vacation this past summer,

1:01.7

and he represented that he arrived for our dinner on time and that we were a half

1:10.7

an hour late. To be clear, and in fact, we were most

1:16.7

certainly on time and the gears were in fact a half an hour early. I had to imagine that.

1:23.7

That was crazy that he said he was like hanging out your house with Lola. Yeah, we don't get time wrong. Lola was setting the table and putting the place because I,

1:34.3

it was a rather large dinner party and then extra people that I didn't expect also showed up.

1:40.3

So then I'm scrambling to get, I was like, how is it possible that I have planned a 25 person dinner and

1:47.9

27 people are here. So now I'm scrambling to get like, you know, random seats. Like, do we have any

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