The life of Jonah Hill

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“I kindly ask that you don’t comment on my body, good or bad.”  Once a star of “bro comedies,” he’s finding his voice as a film director and body positivity advocate. This is the story of Jonah Hill.

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00:00you were introduced to a sliver of my personality when I was 21 years old.

00:05What are we supposed to tell the girls?

00:06That we couldn't do the one thing that we promised because we're d***less in confidence?

00:21We look back on those films and a lot of what

00:23they're showing is like major bro comedy and bro masculinity.

00:32I gotta unlearn a lot of stuff and maybe some of the people that like super battle come

00:37with me on that journey.

00:53He's the favorite child of the three, too.

01:03Really?

01:04Yeah.

01:05We're skating with hip-hop, so skating burst me out of my bubble.

01:17So I had friends from like, you know, I ran with mostly like Hispanic dudes from like

01:21East L.A. when East L.A. wasn't like a hipster place to live.

01:25I started off wanting to be a writer-director my whole life and then I kind of accidentally

01:29fell into this amazing 16-year acting career.

01:51Yes, 260, and I've reached the omega level.

02:13Luckily Judd's, you know, Knocked Up and 40-Year-Old Virgin did so well that the studios

02:18are allowing Judd to kind of have creative freedom to make the kind of movies he's always

02:22wanted to make.

02:23I spent all of my 20s doing what I thought people wanted me to do and was scared to do

02:33anything that would disrupt people's ease with me or their version of success with me.

02:51Well Martin Scorsese is my favorite filmmaker of all time.

02:54Goodfellas is my favorite film of all time.

02:58So this was just a dream in every way.

03:07People often assume that it would be difficult for me or that I would have some sort of angst

03:13or anxiety around my brother being an actor and me being much younger and now coming up

03:18and being an actor as well, but I love him so much and I think the art that he makes

03:23is so brilliant.

03:53I waited until I had something to say and mid-90s is my heart.

04:09I became famous in my late teens and then spent most of my young adult life listening

04:13to people say that I was fat and gross and unattractive.

04:24People see me or the photographer yells at me like, hey man, smile, because they're like,

04:37oh, I can tell you what to do.

04:39You're like the bro comedy guy, you know what I mean?

04:42And it's like, no, that's a part of who I was.

04:47As I go forward as an artist, I can take all these kids that were raised the same way as

04:52I was learning these same lessons and help illuminate why maybe some of them weren't

05:00the best lessons in the entire world.

05:22Trout, famine, all in the ozone is so boring.

05:35I hope to direct movies the rest of my life.

05:38That would be amazing.

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