Billy Crudup: What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?

What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Billy Crudup said elsewhere, not written here

I was going to a bar with friends and there was a line at the door. I’d been there before and asked the doorman to skip the line. He said, “Oh, I remember you, you were in Almost Famous, weren’t you?” And I said, “Yeah.” And he goes, “Yeah, get back in line.”

The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 February 2026 source ↗

Others on this question

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Olly Alexander English singer and actor

It’s the stuff about my appearance that sticks. I read I had a face like a crumpled napkin and teeth that could till a field.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 March 2025 source ↗

Adrian Scarborough British actor

On my professional stage debut, I heard my drama tutor moan, “Oh no” from the rear stalls as soon as I appeared.

Recorded Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 February 2022 source ↗

Liev Schreiber American actor

“Not interested.” Who? Many people.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2024 source ↗

Melanie Blatt English singer

“Your career will be over if you have the baby.”To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why? My parents, for my teenage years. I tried to run away when I was 15. We lived in a fishing village in France and, with my boyfriend, I headed to Spain to sell arts and crafts on the beach. Mum came and took me home.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 July 2023 source ↗