Jonah Hill

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q313388: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Mid90s (2018). Count them as actor (8 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (1) everyone in directing

Acting (15) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): This Is the End → Jonah Hill. Hill moved to Moneyball and left comedy.
    “He's kind of trying to get away, but you people like he probably should apologize for.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:26:04 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Jonah Hill → Anthony Michael Hall. Hall was sweet where the later horny-guy leads, like Hill, are angry yellers.
    “Anthony Michael Hall was sweet, and I think a lot of the guys who wanted to get laid in the later movies are angry.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:23:42 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Jonah Hill → Anthony Michael Hall. Jonah Hill's Superbad character is very similar to Anthony Michael Hall's character, almost his son.
    “Jonah Hill's character is very similar to the Anthony Michael Hall character.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:08:04 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (people): Jonah Hill → Jay Baruchel. Baruchel and Hill didn't get along in real life; the film taps into it.
    “Jay and Jonah Hill just didn't get along.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:04:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Michael Cera → Jonah Hill. Cera in Superbad and Jonah: Superbad pitch.
    “Jonah Hill and Michael Sarah try to lose their virginity in one crazy night in high school.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:15:13 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (typecasting): Jonah Hill → Superbad. Hill was known as an Apatow player from Superbad, making his dramatic Moneyball casting a hard pivot.
    “easily best known as kind of an Appatau player off the huge success of Super Bad, and he was Academy Award nominated for this role.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:13:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (foil pairing): Jonah Hill → Brad Pitt. Hill supplies comic timing for restrained Pitt to bounce off.
    “Pitt really needs a foil because he's so restrained in his performance, except when he's throwing things”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:13:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Richard Jewell → Jonah Hill. The part was originally going to be Jonah Hill; speakers think it only works with Hauser.
    “Because it was originally going to be Jonah Hill.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:56:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Jonah Hill: Jonah Hill yelling has aged the best: 'he's one of the best yellers in comedy history'.
    “He's one of the best yellers in comedy history.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:42:15 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Jonah Hill: Jonah Hill's Donnie Azoff is praised as phenomenal, with the hair, glasses and running from cops in the strip mall called out.
    “Jonah Hill, was phenomenal in this movie, super funny.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:37:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Jonah Hill: In Soderbergh's version, comedian Dimitri Martin was going to play Peter Brand.
    “Dimitri Martin, the comedian, was going to play the Peter Brand character.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:13:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)