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Podcast: We Doing Filmographies
Episode: Billy Crudup -- Almost Famous
Description: This is the loosely biographical story of writer/director Cameron Crowe as a teenager, played here by Patrick Fugit in his first film role, as he tags along with a band as a 15 year old journalist for Rolling Stone.
Brad Pitt and Christian Bale almost played Russell Hammond, the guitarist of a fictional band on the rise in "Almost Famous". Pitt said "nah" and our buddy Billy Crudup ended up with the role of a lifetime. In his 11th credit, Crudup plays the coolest person you'd ever meet, and someone so handsome everybody else in the band looks like a...