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David Krumholtz Tells Us His Wildest Hollywood Stories

Those popular social media threads were the tip of the iceberg. From scaling Seth Rogen’s building to farting in front of Chris Nolan, this legendary journeyman has done it all.

He landed his first role on Broadway when he was 13, and since then he’s become one of those unmistakable faces you notice everywhere—from The Addams Family Values, to the Santa Clause movies, to broadcast series and indie films, and, last year, Oppenheimer. His Broadway debut at age 13 in Conversations With My Father launched him into several classic ’90s movies, and since then, he’s worked with the Coen brothers (twice), recurred in a hit HBO series ( The Deuce), led a broadcast show for six seasons ( CBS’ NUMB3RS) and, in the process, made a fan out of director Christopher Nolan, who recently cast him in Oppenheimer as the physicist Isidor Rabi. Much like the ending of Hail, Caesar!, when George Clooney flubs a line right before nailing his final take and driving home the movie magic, Krumholz realized that day that there was nothing precious about that casual encounter.

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