London — The third season of “The Morning Show” was undeniably ambitious in its storytelling and stakes, putting fictional network UBA’s future in jeopardy while drawing back the curtain on favorite characters. For Billy Crudup, it was a difficult journey to navigate as viewers learned more about Cory Ellison, the charmingly flawed chief executive of UBA. After playing Cory for several years, Crudup’s instinct was not to delve as deep into the character’s psychology as the writers wanted.
“They kept putting the screws to Cory and trying to illuminate some of his previous life and his previous relationships and his thinking outside of the office, which at first I felt very protective about,” Crudup says, speaking in April in London, where he was performing in the one-man West End show “Harry Clarke.” “I was like, ‘No, don’t show any of that s—.’ His whole game is that people don’t know what he’s thinking.
The unpredictability of his mental gymnastics, his own certain way of managing social and corporate situations is the special sauce for him, and it’s what makes chaos so useful for him, because he’s very, very good at processing information on the fly. It’s uninteresting to me to know how that is made.” Television Early in his career, a dispiriting meeting left ‘The Morning Show’ star ‘cautious’ about fame.
Now he’s learning how to let down his guard. Oct. 14, 2021 Crudup has established Cory as one of the show’s most comp.
