Jonah Hill
Jonah Hill
Jonah Hill Feldstein, known professionally as Jonah Hill, is an American actor, producer, and comedian. Hill is known for his comedic roles in films such as Accepted, Superbad, Knocked Up, 21 Jump Street, This Is the End, and 22 Jump Street, as well as his performances in Moneyballand The Wolf of Wall Street, for which he received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth20 December 1983
CountryUnited States of America
People who are just in a restaurant that you would never know are international arms dealers is kind of interesting, they're at the table next to you and you have no idea, you never know what everyone's up to.
I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.
Every time you're directing a movie you're kind of building a temporary business. You're hiring all these heads of departments, and it definitely feels like I'm like a CEO of a very temporary company.
I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.
It's just hard when you're someone who's like hurting a lot of people or deceiving people who trust you, not to bring some of that home with you or inside of you.
I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me.
I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake.
When you're looking for stories or movies usually the great stories are about people in their 30s or 40s because they've lived more life and they're usually accomplishing more incredible things. But when there's an interesting story about someone that's your age, you immediately - especially when you're younger - are like, "Wow that's crazy! There's not very many of these."
I like playing characters that, you know, a couple could go see the movie and one person could love him and one person could hate him.
It's harder to be funny if you're handsome than if you're very normal-looking. It's just more relatable. You're the underdog. I mean it's funny to see people struggle, and you don't buy that Brad Pitt is struggling, you know that guy could be the most skill-less guy in the world, but if you look like that you will be fine for the rest of your life.
Jump Street merging with MiB I think that's clean and rad and powerful.
I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience.
It wasn't like, 'I'ma lose weight and start doing dramas.' I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight - it's just about being healthy and feeling good.
If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy. If you're trying to have a normal conversation, you've got to have a normal conversation. If you're trying to make them sad, you've got to make them sad. I think that's how you get real performances out of people.