Sure, he will probably never be my favourite actor of all time, but I have yet to see a film in which I haven't enjoyed watching him admittedly, I've never seen his one absolute turkey, The Sitter. I thought he was one of the funniest things about Knocked Up , in which he played Seth Rogen's angry, nerdy friend, and his deleted scenes from that film confirm him as the movie's hidden gem.
I adored him in Superbad , playing Michael Cera's angry, nerdy friend, and I thought he was hilarious as the nerdy fanboy in Get Him to the Greek. I admired his determination to break out of Judd Apatow's gang of stoner bro comedians, making him pretty much unique among that Knocked Up crew, and stretch himself with comedy-dramas such as Cyrus and The Wolf of Wall Street and straight-up dramas such as Moneyball.
But I also liked that his two Oscar nominations for Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street hadn't made him too snooty to rejoin his old gang for movies such as last summer's This is the End , in which he amusingly played a phoney nice guy who becomes a killer zombie.
Finally, the reason I would be interviewing him was because he was promoting the sequel to 21 Jump Street , his buddy cop film with Channing Tatum, which I had — contrary to my snobby expectations — enjoyed enormously. But then I started to research him and instead of looking forward to meeting him, began to dread it. An infamously bad-tempered interview he gave to Rolling Stone last year , in which he came across as obnoxious and, most damningly of all, a fan of the word "prideful", compounded this image of Hill as a pain.
Even his friends seemed a bit unsure of him. Apatow once described him as "an angry nerd". When one journalist asked Rogen for tips on how to interview Hill , Rogen replied: "He is serious, he is, which I'm not … I don't know [how to approach him]. It's a good question. He has been giving interviews all day, but he is perky with enthusiastic emphases. Any surliness of yore has been smoothed out with, I suspect, some media training, and instead of crowing about how "prideful" he is of his achievements, his big word now is "lucky": he is so "lucky" to have done the work he's done and he is so "lucky" to get any work now.
But not all the training in the world can prevent the occasional weird outburst. We'll get to that in a bit. First, let's talk about the matter at hand — Jump Street! So, Jonah, I say, you must have been quite a fan of the s TV show to make two films based on it.
Later, he thought better of this and decided, wisely, that rather than remaking the 90s cop show which its star, Johnny Depp, later described as "borderline fascist" he would make something "that had the vibe of a John Hughes movie meets Bad Boys" and that's just what he did with the first movie Hill produced and came up with the story for both Jump Street films. He bossed Superbad in He was amusingly stoned in Strange Wilderness in That happened.
But he also stretched out into less comic roles and attracted the attention of Oscar voters. He was twice nominated as best supporting actor: for Moneyball in and Wolf of Wall Street in He falls in with a rough crowd. He gains useful experience. He gains some understanding of his troubled older brother played by reliably excellent Lucas Hedges. We tend to assume such things are autobiographical. Mom was a costume designer.
But a lot of these things did happen to me. I was very affected by skateboarding and the people I met along the way. Some of these things happened to me. Some of these things were what I imagined was happening to friends of mine.
The title was no accident. Hill was keen to root the film in a particular era. He remembers that, 25 years ago, kids were, in his world, less able to talk about their troubles. There was more evasion, more suppression, more sublimation. The coming generation have got better at that. Hill grew up in the well-heeled west LA suburb of Cheviot Hills. But Bohemia beckoned and he made for downtown New York.
Then quickly I began to learn what a director was. Within skateboarding I learnt who Spike Jonze was and learnt he was interested in skate videos. Music videos were important to my generation. All these great auteurs started in that world. You then get into films and you realise there is this voice behind all that work you love. Great movies you can stream on Amazon Prime Video now.
Meet the most iconic horror movie villains of the modern age. Related Reviews and Shortlists Entertainment. The best Netflix movies right now - fantastic movies to stream. Scares on subscription, with these best horror movies on Netflix UK. In Superbad , Evan, Seth, and Fogell are all considered to be nerdy students. Despite not being popular, Fogell has excessive confidence.
This often rubs Seth the wrong way, and Seth at times feels insecure about Fogell because he will be going to the same college as Evan.
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