Is Jonah Hill The Next Leonardo Dicaprio?

June 27, 2013 by Coco Liberty

In his recent Bullett Magazine interview, Jonah Hill should have stuck to promoting his movie This is the End… because it’s beyond hilarious. Instead, Hill focuses on his craft and entitlement to be taken seriously as an actor.

Has Hill forgotten where he’s come from? Or is he trying to live up to the parody of himself portrayed in This is the End? Not to spoil the movie, but if even your co-stars (Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Jay Baruchel) turn you into a possessed demon that should be your heads up. Even Franco checks himself before he wrecks himself.

Here are some choice quotes from the interview:

On the roles he passed on: “All I ever wanted to be was, like, regarded,” he says. “A genuine fear of mine was that I was going to be known as ‘The Guy from Superbad’ for the rest of my life.” Around that time, director Todd Phillips approached him to play “any one of the three main parts in The Hangover,” says Hill, who declined the offer, along with another to play Shia LaBeouf ’s sidekick in Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. “They were both really big decisions, and ones that most people didn’t understand,” he says. “I knew I could be a dramatic actor, but I also knew I couldn’t go from Superbad to Schindler’s List.”

On criticism: “You can dis me all you want on a blog, or write whatever you want in this magazine and I’ll just be like, ‘Whatever, man. Scorsese thinks I’m awesome.’ [Laughs.] He hired me and didn’t fire me, so I can kind of not care now. It really did give me personal assurance that I’m doing the right thing and that I’m talented in certain ways because he’s so important to me.”

On his relationship status: A bros-before-hoes outlook on love suits Hill, who, though currently single, would eventually like to settle down and have kids. Fame, however, has hindered his ability to meet women. “The idea of celebrity is incredibly seductive and it brings out the evil in people,” says Hill, who used to only date girls with whom he’d gone to high school “because I knew they liked me before I was successful.” He’s confessed to past threesomes and to bedding aSports Illustrated swimsuit model, but he admits, “It’s not sustainable in a way that will give you any real gratification. It won’t have kids with you because it’s just an idea.”

On his famous friends: “When Brad [Pitt] and Angie [Jolie] came to my birthday party last year, I think that was pretty shocking to a lot of people because that was at a small bar, but my birthday party this year was at my house and, um, some of the guys from The Wolf of Wall Street came over. My friends weren’t like, ‘Oh my gosh! A famous person’s here.’ More than that, it was the actors there who were like, ‘Man, it’s so awesome how close you are with all these people who don’t give a f–k that you’re in movies or that anyone else is in movies.’ Because no one cared that Leo [DiCaprio] was there.”

On the roles he passed on, Hill is so desperately trying to be considered a serious actor and dissing his start with Superbad. I wonder how Judd Apatow feels about that. Apatow single handledly made all of his comedic actors a success!

Anyway, back to Hill, his reference to Schindler’s List is the most pathetic. Moneyball was a great film, but Hill has a long way until he’s even considered as highly regarded as Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. Just because he’s in close proximity with those actors doesn’t mean their perceived greatness transcends to Hill.

On criticism, “whatever, man. Scorsese thinks I’m awesome” really?!?!? Best line of the interview! I guess that’s equivalent to if my boss likes my work who cares what my co-workers think? Hill is definitely getting too big for his britches and he might want to watch his fall from such a great pedestal.

On his relationship status, this is another jerk moment by throwing in how he’s just like Dicaprio with disposable Sports illustrated and Victoria’s Secret Models. Whatever makes you feel better about yourself, but Hill isn’t gaining any fans here.

Finally, on Hill rubbing elbows with Angelina (who he calls Angie) and Brad Pitt, again, this is another way of justifying his ascension into Hollywood Royalty. I know that he’s come a long way from SuperBad and he’s an adult now, but don’t throw in your fan base away with elitism and your dreams of accomplishing more.

Hill definitely needs to be more humble or he’ll be as delusional as Lindsay Lohan and her Elizabeth Taylor comparisons.