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  • >>Interviewer: Good afternoon and welcome to YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California,

  • if you're joining us from somewhere on the internet. Our guest today at YouTube is an

  • actor who has appeared in some of the comedies that defined the last decade. I'm talking

  • about movies like 40-Year-Old Virgin and Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the

  • Greek, Funny People and more, but he's here today to share with us some of his experiences

  • working in a dramatic role on a movie that opens this weekend. The movie is Moneyball.

  • Please welcome me or please join me in welcoming to YouTube, Jonah Hill.

  • [applause]

  • >>Jonah Hill: Hello.

  • >>Interviewer: How're you doing? How're you doing?

  • >>Jonah Hill: I'm well. How are you?

  • >>Interviewer: Good, good.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Thanks for joining internet if you're watching this. Haven't seen you

  • in awhile. I hope your hair still looks as good as last time I saw it, internet, and

  • why'd you break up with me? That wasn't nice. OK. How are you guys doing?

  • >>Interviewer: Excellent. So Jonah, I, I could explain what, what Moneyball is as a movie,

  • but I'm sure people would rather hear you tell 'em about it.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Moneyball is a drama about baseball, but, you know, it's about the 2002 Oakland

  • A's and Billy Beane and my character, Peter Brand, using this technique called sabermetrics

  • or moneyball as they call it. And they use this technique of a different way of finding

  • value in players to, to build a team with very little money that ends up winning 20

  • straight games in a row, which breaks a lot of records. Now on paper this sounds like

  • the most boring movie ever made.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: About, a movie about baseball statistics. But Aaron Sorkin, who wrote The

  • Social Network, and Steve Zaillian, who wrote Schindler's List, wrote, wrote this movie.

  • And Aaron Sorkin, and I'm paraphrasing here, said about it, just as how The Social Network

  • on paper sounds very boring, you know a movie about someone inventing a website, maybe not

  • to the people in this room, [chuckles] [audience laughs] but to me that sounded very boring.

  • And, and, and you know you watch that film and it's riveting and really groundbreaking

  • and cool and a great drama, and it's the same thing about Moneyball because the filmmakers

  • really use baseball as a really beautiful aesthetic backdrop to tell a really moving

  • story about underdogs and being undervalued. And that's the story I connected to and also

  • it stars Brad Pitt and myself and Philip Seymour Hoffman, so the three most handsome guys in

  • the world, obviously they, they found us all and paired us together finally.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: And for me it's exciting because it's you know you're used to seeing me in

  • comedies and this is, you know I love comedy movies and dramatic movies, and for me it's

  • a really big opportunity to show you guys what I could do in a dramatic role and I hope

  • you like it, that'd be nice, yeah, sure.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Interviewer: Now it's not as if you only done kind of one particular style of comedy

  • over the years, I mean, The Invention of Lying had a very kind of specific tone to it. And

  • then even Funny People was a very kind of naturalistic movie, but still this is a big

  • step up for you, kind of being head to head with Brad Pitt?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Well, I made um, I made a movie last year called Cyrus, which was a smaller

  • movie that not a lot of people saw. And it was myself and John C. Reilly and Marisa Tomei,

  • and that was kind of good, like it was a good bridge way in between some of the comedies

  • I made and, and, and dramatic work because it was funny and it was a drama, it had both

  • things in it. And yeah I mean the thing about the comedies I've done is to me at the time

  • when, when I had met Judd Apatow and all these guys you know like and we all started working

  • together, it did feel very punk rock and different than what was going on in comedy. It felt

  • like a different thing that was happening and we all kind of have the same energy and,

  • and, and take on what we wanted to do, led by Judd obviously. And you know but now it's

  • years later and those movies have been copied now to death and you know in my mind I'm always

  • like, what's next, how do I evolve and how do you evolve and then you watch the way that

  • Judd is evolving as a filmmaker and Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberger evolving as filmmakers,

  • and now my evolution involves doing movies like Cyrus and Moneyball and that's stuff

  • I'm really psyched about, you know, so hopefully I could get to do both of those things, the

  • comedy and drama.

  • >>Interviewer: Now, I've, I've heard some actors say that it's very intimidating to

  • work opposite someone like Robert De Niro because it's Robert De Niro and obviously

  • Brad Pitt is just so damn handsome. Do you have to just like stay around for 20 minutes

  • to see if it goes away? Or how does that work?

  • >>Jonah Hill: No, you know, honestly, like

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: To what?

  • >>Interviewer: To just, you know, get past the initial shock?

  • >>Jonah Hill: This guy.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: Calm down.

  • >>Interviewer: I have more questions like this, so.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah, yeah. It's the accent mixed with the tattoos mixed with the stare

  • mixed with the smile, it's, it's.

  • >>Interviewer: We'll be fine.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Alright. If anything happens to me, um, I'm in northern California, in

  • a really weird professor auditorium?

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: I don't know where I am. But, no, I mean you know obviously I was intimidated

  • when I got this part because it was myself, you know I'm the second lead in this movie

  • with Brad Pitt and Philip Seymour Hoffman's in the movie and you know Bennett Miller's

  • directing it who directed Capote, and Aaron Sorkin wrote Social Network, and Steve Zaillian,

  • who wrote Schindler's List, and it just is this really surreal dream-like experience

  • from day one and so you know the first day of rehearsals I was really nervous, but I

  • was like, I can either be really freaked out or I can kick my nerves to the curb for a

  • second and try and deliver for these people who took a chance on giving me an opportunity

  • to do something truly different, so. I just wanted to come through for them and if I was

  • sitting around being nervous about how talented everyone was, I probably would of just thought

  • about that as opposed to doing a good job.

  • >>Interviewer: Sure. Now obviously Moneyball really is a, it's a number of things. It's

  • a human interest story, it's the story of Billy Beane, but I don't want to underplay

  • the role of statistics, obviously we probably have some you know programmers and engineers.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Well you guys are nerds, so it's like

  • >>Interviewer: Yes, exactly.

  • >>Jonah Hill: really exciting for you.

  • >>Interviewer: There are some people here I'm sure

  • [laughter] >>Jonah Hill: Wrong crowd, wrong room, wrong

  • room. The internet liked that more than this room.

  • >>Interviewer: They don't like being called nerds.

  • >>Jonah Hill: I'm leaving, no.

  • >>Interviewer: But I mean how did you deal with, did you method act your way through

  • the, the statistical stuff?

  • >>Jonah Hill: No, well, honestly, I, you know, I realized I had never played a character

  • with a skill before, of any kind.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: And now the character I was playing had to be a brilliant statistician

  • and mathematician, so I had a statistics tutor and a mathematics tutor and I think that was

  • probably the hardest job on Moneyball was teaching me how to count past 10 probably,

  • because I'm very poor at math and science, I was always really good at history and English

  • and acting and stuff like that in school.

  • >>Interviewer: Now I did read somewhere that apparently you were kind of suggest, it was

  • suggested that you should deal with statistics the same way that you, you kind of talk about

  • other actors in Hollywood and their strengths and weaknesses, so.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Or filmmakers or.

  • >>Interviewer: Sure.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah, movies themselves.

  • >>Interviewer: So I was kind of wondering, could you maybe give us an example and maybe

  • give us like two of Seth Rogen's strengths and one weakness.

  • >>Jonah Hill: [laughing] I'm not gonna do that.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Interviewer: He'll never know.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Why would I want to? Next question.

  • >>Interviewer: Well, what's his strength? What is a strength that you gained from working

  • with him?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Ask him. I don't know. What the hell.

  • >>Interviewer: Alright. I'll, I'll ask him.

  • >>Jonah Hill: I flew down to northern California. Don't ask me about Seth. He's great. He's

  • getting married in a couple of weeks, I'm gonna go to his wedding.

  • >>Interviewer: Excellent. OK now, Brad is obviously playing very much the character

  • of Billy Beane, I mean he, there's a lot of Billy in the book, it's a really interesting

  • read. You're playing maybe more of a composite character and maybe a bigger character that

  • >>Jonah Hill: Do you work for YouTube?

  • >>Interviewer: Yeah.

  • >>Jonah Hill: I thought this was for people who were on YouTube to ask questions.

  • >>Interviewer: Well I, we're gonna get to that.

  • >>Jonah Hill: [laughing] I wanna hear your guys' questions, right? We should hear the

  • people's questions.

  • >>Interviewer: Alright.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: I thought we were gonna do some Moneyball questions.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah, we can do it, keep going. But I wanna hear the, I wanna hear the kids

  • that are on the computer, that's exciting to me. Right? Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: OK. Sure.

  • >>Jonah Hill: OK, cool.

  • >>Interviewer: Shall we skip to the questions that we got from the internet?

  • >>Jonah Hill: No, no, keep going.

  • >>Interviewer: Well, I was just kind of interested in

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: obviously Billy, as I say Billy is a real character, you're playing more of

  • a composite character maybe and it's a bigger part perhaps than it is in the book. Because

  • in the book you know the character of the statistician isn't drawn out as much and I

  • maybe thought that would have been an interesting opportunity to have that a little bit grounded

  • in reality, but then you get Aaron Sorkin writing out the role?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Well I think, you know, my character in this movie is a guy who would blend into

  • a wall, right? So he's never had a light shined on him before. He's never had someone empower

  • him in any way. He's someone who is doing the busy work on a computer, no offense, [audience

  • chuckles] and you don't usually see that person's story is what I'm saying so for me I found

  • it really unique to get to play a character where you're getting to play someone who you're,

  • you're hearing their story who you don't usually get to see. And a guy like Billy, like Brad

  • Pitt's character, is the guy's character who you always see in a movie, the main protagonist,

  • but the cool thing is Brad's character was overvalued. He was told he was gonna be this

  • big sports star because he was handsome and he was good at baseball and he turned down

  • going to Stanford and he turned down getting an education and he fizzled out and he didn't

  • become this big sports star. And my character is undervalued. He's taken at face value,

  • taken as a guy who can just do busy work on a computer, but he has these really brilliant

  • radical ideas and Billy's the first person, Brad's character, Billy, is the first person

  • who sees him and goes, you're, you're, you're something special, you have something special

  • to offer. And it's really cool to see that guy's story. So that's what I found really

  • interesting. And it's kind of like seeing a baby use his legs for the first time, you

  • know, because he's never been empowered before, so he's metaphorically wobbling around, you

  • know, trying to learn how to walk, or trying to learn how to deal with some sort of power,

  • and that's exciting. Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: And obviously a lot of this was filmed at the Coliseum in Oakland.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: And again, that's a little bit of a character in the book. You read about

  • the video room and just the atmosphere, it's certainly not the most palatial stadium in

  • sports.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Right.

  • >>Interviewer: Did that help to kind of soak up that atmosphere?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah. I mean honestly, when we shot there, I mean there's no more really

  • place you could actually go than where you're shooting is where it took place. And then

  • when you walk out on the field, it's just the coolest thing ever, because it's empty

  • and then you know you can run around the bases and throw the ball around and stuff and then

  • when we shot a lot of the games that are really factual about what actually took place, there

  • were real A's fans in the stadium, some of whom were at those actual games and that was

  • really cool, you know, that was really exciting.

  • >>Interviewer: So if you were to kind of apply the theories of Moneyball to the kind of movie

  • roles that you take and you know Moneyball being kind of looking for things that are

  • maybe undervalued or people don't put enough emphasis on and really kind of leveraging

  • them, is, is that something that you look for in roles? Or you like name big on the

  • poster and a lot of lines?

  • >>Jonah Hill: I just look for name biggest on the poster. Most amount of free stuff I

  • can get. No, I've, that's silly, I mean the only thing I care about, you know, the only

  • thing I care about is when I'm older and I have grandkids and I've spent my life doing

  • this, if I'm lucky to keep getting to spend my life doing this, that I'll have a few DVDs

  • or whatever that will be then, it'll be like watched on your palm or something, I have

  • a few movie cartridges I can implant into my grandchildren's brain space. And say you

  • know this is what I spent my life doing and I'm really proud of these few things. And

  • that's, that's all how I look at it because if you're gonna go away for a few months and

  • you're gonna go dedicate your life to something, I mean you guys know, you, everyone in this

  • room is someone clearly really special and smart or you wouldn't be working here. And

  • you could be doing anything with that intelligence, but it has to be something you're incredibly

  • passionate about if you're gonna dedicate not sleeping and working really hard at it

  • and we're all lucky enough to get to work on stuff we really care about, if we're lucky,

  • but the only thing that could be the impetus of that is thinking it could become something

  • really special.

  • >>Interviewer: So obviously you know comedy, some of the films you've been on, could be

  • described as about ensemble casts

  • >>Jonah Hill: Right.

  • >>Interviewer: a bit of a team sport kind of thing. How different is working with Judd

  • to the kind of the Billy Beane character, I presume Judd's not throwing chairs around

  • to get you to, to work.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Uh, well, um, no I mean Judd has been, you know, there have been four really

  • major Billy Beane figures in my life, people that shined a light on me and gave me the

  • opportunity to get where I'm at now, which is YouTube.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: I feel like I've worked my way backwards from movies to YouTube. Aren't you

  • supposed to start at YouTube and then get a movie deal or something when you make a

  • video of yourself like getting hit in the nuts with the Frisbee or something, right?

  • But no, Dustin Hoffman was the first person who encouraged me to become an actor and got

  • me my first audition in what ended up being my first movie, which is I Heart Huckabees,

  • and then after that I met Judd, who, you know, gave me countless opportunities in things

  • you know to show what I had to offer. And the next person would be the Duplass brothers,

  • who gave me Cyrus, which is a movie that I was able to show a little bit more of a different

  • side and then finally Brad Pitt and Bennett Miller, who made Moneyball to give me this

  • big opportunity and then fifth would be YouTube, who gave me the opportunity to be here, which

  • is really cool. Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: Excellent.

  • [whoops from the audience]

  • >>Jonah Hill: I'm here. I'm at YouTube. I'm in, while you guys are watching YouTube, I'm

  • in YouTube, in

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: It's just like a giant tube filled with, like, kids after the dentist

  • that like have had too much Vicodin or whatever and

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: like, you know women stomping on grapes and falling down and screaming.

  • [clapping and laughter]

  • >>Interviewer: So.

  • >>Jonah Hill: It's a, it's a weird place.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: It's just this giant tube with weird internet characters.

  • >>Interviewer: Excellent. So, um

  • >>Jonah Hill: Excellent.

  • >>Interviewer: Excellent. So again to get a, to beat this baseball metaphor to death,

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: as I plan to. I mean one of the things about Moneyball is it's inherently

  • a kind of conservative strategy to, of playing baseball, it's you know take the walk, don't

  • try and steal the base, get on base. It's the opposite of kind of improvisation and

  • obviously anybody who's seen the DVD extras and a lot of Judd's movies will know that

  • you know you've worked in a lot of films where there's a lot of improvisation. Is that something

  • that you kind of now look for as an actor, or?

  • >>Jonah Hill: No, I just, like I said, you know, I just I wanna make good movies, whether

  • they're dramas or comedies, whether they're improvised or scripted, it, it, it, the process

  • is not what you're looking for, what, what will be the finished result being something

  • that you care about. I don't want to tread over the same answer again,

  • >>Interviewer: Sure.

  • >>Jonah Hill: which I feel like that kind of is, but, is, yeah, you just gotta be really

  • proud of what you're working on or there's no point in doing it. So you can't say like,

  • oh, I'm gonna do this movie because I think it's gonna make a lot of money, or I wanna

  • do this movie 'cause it'll get me this or I'm gonna do this because I'm gonna improvise

  • a lot, like that's all, you know, no matter how joyous the spirit of what you're doing

  • is or how annoying it was to make it or how hard it was to make or how fun it was to make

  • it, those will always shift, but if, your goal has to be the product being good.

  • >>Interviewer: Sure.

  • >>Jonah Hill: You know? If you start doing movies for reasons like oh, they're gonna

  • be a lot of fun, the work might suffer

  • >>Interviewer: Sure.

  • >>Jonah Hill: and the product might suffer.

  • >>Interviewer: So Philip Seymour Hoffman, a lot of people would say, an actor's actor?

  • What did you kind of experience specifically with him?

  • >>Jonah Hill: I think, I you know, I was most intimidated to work with him out of everyone

  • involved in the movie, because he, you know, I don't know, because, because he does come

  • off as this really intense dude from his movies and, and he's such a gifted actor and I didn't

  • know what his process would be like at all. And he was fantastic. I mean, super fun and

  • funny, but when he's working, he's very, very, you know, involved in what he's doing, it's

  • not like joke around with him before you do a dramatic scene or something like that, it's

  • pretty intense and so and the interesting thing is his character doesn't like my character

  • in the movie and he doesn't like Brad Pitt's character in the movie, so we would do these

  • scenes and I would look at the call sheet and see that Phil was there that day and I

  • would go, God, this sucks, because you knew you were gonna get yelled at all day and he's

  • such a good actor that it feels like he's really mad at you all the time, so I'd have

  • to be like, you're not mad at me or anything, right? And he's like, no I'm just acting,

  • you know? So sometimes you felt like as if he was really upset with you, because he's

  • such a good actor.

  • >>Interviewer: Excellent. So just to go back a little bit to Superbad, which obviously

  • had a lot of people kind of really, you broke through with that. When you were working on

  • it, was it obvious at the time that this was you know something special?

  • >>Jonah Hill: I think that it was the most fun movie I've ever made, I'd say. That and

  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall 'cause I worked like two days and I was in Hawaii for like

  • a month.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: But Superbad was the most, it was like my college experience, because I

  • wasn't, I had dropped out of school, Michael Cera was doing that instead of going to college,

  • and Seth and Evan didn't go, or Evan went to a little college, but there was just, from

  • the crew to the cast everyone it was all people we hung out with in real life. It was, it

  • was the youngest energy I've ever felt on a set because everyone was, you know, like

  • 18 to 25 years old, including the crew and everyone, you know, except for Judd and Greg

  • Mottola. Greg the director and Judd the producer. And we would, you know, have big parties after

  • work or on the weekends. We really all loved each other, so it was an incredibly, as fun

  • as the movie looks to make, it actually, sometimes, they look really fun to make and they're not

  • as fun as that to make, that one looked really fun to make and was insanely fun to make.

  • >>Interviewer: And you were kind of playing a character that Seth Rogen wrote more or

  • less himself as a younger person, could you say

  • >>Jonah Hill: I think you want to date Seth Rogen, I'm pretty sure.

  • >>Interviewer: He's a handsome man.

  • >>Jonah Hill: He's getting married, but I think I can. You seem to be very fascinated

  • by him.

  • >>Interviewer: I only have four more Seth questions, we'll get through them quickly.

  • >>Jonah Hill: I think you should interview him, man.

  • >>Interviewer: If he's watching, Seth, if you're out there, I'm married, but I'll see

  • what I can do. I was just really gonna ask, I mean could you see a point where you were

  • kind of writing a script based around your own earlier life, you know would that be an

  • interesting thing to do?

  • >>Jonah Hill: I don't know. I don't know if I ever would. I've written one script that's

  • autobiographical that has not been produced into a film and to me, you know, Superbad

  • was Seth and Evan's high school experiences and then when Michael and I came on and then

  • obviously Judd who worked on it and people, everyone who worked on it contributed their

  • experiences in what they felt, you know. And for me, that, you know, 21 Jump Street is

  • a movie that I was one of the writers on and that to me is riffing on making Superbad.

  • That whole movie to me because I'm playing a 25-year-old who goes back to high school

  • in 21 Jump Street as a cop. But in, when I was making Superbad I was a 20-something-year-old

  • pretending, going back to high school again, so I got to use a lot of the experiences that

  • I did to pretend to be a high school student while making Superbad in 21 Jump Street as

  • a 25-year-old pretending to be a high school student again. Like for example, in Superbad

  • I moved back in with my parents into my childhood room while we made the movie because I wanted

  • to feel like I felt like I was in high school. And when in 21 Jump Street when our characters

  • go back to high school, we move in with my parents again, and so all the funny things,

  • like your being in your 20s and having your mom go, what are you doing tonight? You go,

  • mom, shut up, like, you know, like you're past that but you have to go back to that.

  • >>Interviewer: Sure.

  • >>Jonah Hill: And so 21 Jump Street has a lot of stuff like that from, from that's riffing

  • on when I was making Superbad.

  • >>Interviewer: Yeah. Now speaking as a parent, I always say to people that you have to be

  • very careful when you bring a kid's movie into the house, 'cause you're gonna end up

  • watching it a lot.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: And from that perspective, I kind of have to say like How to Train Your

  • Dragon was, to beat the baseball metaphor to death, a home run, in every respect. What

  • was it like to be a part of something like that?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Well, thanks. I mean, that, I will be totally honest with you guys. I

  • did not know if that was gonna be a good movie or not.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: When you do those animated movies, you're in a booth, they don't show you anything

  • really and you're just kind of like screaming and stuff and saying stuff and then you, I

  • saw it and I was like this is a beautiful movie, it really is like a beautiful movie

  • and I was totally surprised. I had no idea it would be as good as it was and those directors,

  • they're really beautiful people and smart, articulate and aesthetically gifted people

  • and when I watched that movie I was very surprised at how good and moving it was.

  • >>Interviewer: Yeah, I mean it has plot and action and it's very watchable.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah. And dragons are cool.

  • >>Interviewer: And dragons. And there's a sequel?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah. Another one that I'm just rollin' the dice on, I just hope it, again.

  • I mean it's the same guy so, so I think it'll be great, you know. But, but, yeah, I, I mean

  • you're just literally in a booth, there's like no one else around and they give you

  • some lines and it's like, watch out for that dragon. And you're like this could be terrible,

  • I have no idea, I have no idea what this is gonna be like, you know? And then it turned

  • out to be something I'm really proud of, you know?

  • >>Interviewer: And you have been in other animation stuff. You were, I guess. in Horton

  • Sees a Hears a Who!?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: You were in Megamind.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: And you have your own animated series coming up on Fox?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yes.

  • >>Interviewer: World domination? Is this the plan?

  • >>Jonah Hill: I, I don't know, I don't know, just YouTube domination. I just want. Do you

  • guys have a bed here? I wanna live in this tube forever with you guys.

  • >>Interviewer: We have some comfortable couches.

  • >>Jonah Hill: OK Cool. You had great hummus.

  • >>Interviewer: Excellent.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: I had some hummus. Have you guys tried the hummus here at YouTube? It's

  • fantastic. Great hummus. Yeah, I created an animated show called Allen Gregory, with my

  • two friends Jarrad Paul and Andy Mogel and it's about the world's most pretentious 7-year-old

  • named Allen Gregory. And he has two dads and one of the dads is an heiress. And he loses

  • the money and so Allen Gregory has to go to public school for the first time with normal

  • kids and he finds this disgusting. He doesn't wanna be around normal kids. And I do the

  • voice of Allen Gregory. And let me tell you when I was growing up, the Simpsons were my

  • total, when my parents asked me what I wanted to do when I was young, they'd say what do

  • you want to do when you grow up? And I said I wanna live in Springfield. I was like 6

  • or 7 and with the Simpsons and my parents said well that's, the Simpsons is a show and

  • there are animators who draw Homer, there are people who, there's a guy who does Homer's

  • voice and there are people who write what Homer says. And I was like, I wanna be one

  • of the people who writes what Homer says. So that was a bizarre dream, 'cause most kids

  • just answer like fireman, but I would be in school and say I wanna write for an animated

  • prime-time sitcom and that was weird.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: And you know then years later you know Superbad had come out and I had done

  • some of these comedies that had been successful and Fox had luckily asked me, they said do

  • you want to do the voice of an animated character on one of our new shows and I said well if

  • I'm on one of your shows, you probably wouldn't let me create my own show ever because you

  • already have me on your network, and they were like, yeah, probably, but you don't have

  • a show. And I was like, OK, hold on a second. So I went Jarrad, one of the co-creators,

  • lived in my building and I went in there with him and his partner Andy, his writing partner

  • and we stayed in a room for a few weeks and after a few weeks we emerged with a pilot

  • for Allen Gregory and now October 30, after the Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror episode,

  • we premier on Fox right after the Simpsons.

  • >>Interviewer: Awesome.

  • >>Jonah Hill: So that dream has come very full circle to me. I'm very overjoyed and

  • overwhelmed by that, you know.

  • >>Interviewer: Nice. Now

  • [applause]

  • >>Jonah Hill: That's cool, yeah, very cool. Thanks.

  • >>Interviewer: And you also have The Sitter coming up later this year.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah, The Sitter, if you liked, like, Superbad and stuff like that, you're

  • gonna like The Sitter. It's a, it's a really hard core R-rated babysitting comedy. [chuckles]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: And you know, you know those movies, the idea behind that is you know those

  • movies where they're like you don't want this guy watching your kids and it's like some

  • really cheesy Disney movie? You really don't want this guy watching your kids.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: The plot of that movie revolves around me going to buy drugs for my girlfriend

  • while babysitting these kids as a favor to my mom and one of the kids steals drugs from

  • Sam Rockwell and J.B. Smoove, who are drug dealers, and chase us around New York City.

  • And it's hysterical. And David Gordon Green directed, who directed Pineapple Express and

  • it's a really crazy fun one night in New York City kind of movie with me and a bunch of

  • kids. And that comes out December 9. And there's a cell phone, the poster, there's a cell phone

  • with a phone number like need a sitter and there's a phone number on it and they're like,

  • we want you to leave a voice mail so when people call this number, you, you'll, they'll

  • hear your voice. And I go, well who has the phone? And they're like, it's a hotline. And

  • I'm like, well why don't you just make it a cell phone and give it to me and I'll answer

  • it. 'Cause you know Mike Jones, the rapper, he did that, and so I was like just make it

  • a real number and I'll answer it. And so they gave me a phone and I have the phone, so if

  • you call the number a few hours a day I try and answer it as much as possible. It's actually

  • really fun so I can talk to fans and stuff. It's been really fun.

  • >>Interviewer: Do people believe it's you? Do you get a lot of that?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Sometimes they don't initially and then I'm like no, seriously me. And then

  • they're like, what are you doing? And I'm like, brushing my teeth. And they're like,

  • you're boring. I'm like, OK, sorry.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: And then sometimes people don't get that I, that I can't stay on the phone

  • like all day.

  • >>Interviewer: Yeah.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: They're like, oh hang on let me get this friend, hold on, he'll be here

  • in like 10 minutes, just hang on the phone. I'm like, well I gotta, OK.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Interviewer: I was gonna say from the trailer of The Sitter it really, it really feels like

  • a character who is kind of a dick at the start but presumably you have to root for by the

  • end of the movie and I was gonna say David Gordon Green has worked on Eastbound and Down,

  • which is

  • >>Jonah Hill: Eastbound and Down's one of the best shows ever.

  • >>Interviewer: I was kind of, was he a good collaborator to just push you into that?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Dave is one of the greatest people I've ever met in my entire life. He's

  • so inspirational. He's so funny and weird and interesting and you know him and Jody

  • Hill and Danny McBride have this collective, they went to school together at North Carolina

  • School for the Arts or South Carolina School for the Arts, I can't remember which one.

  • North Carolina School for the Arts and they, they are just so unique and twisted and weird

  • and messed up and Eastbound and Down is such a beautiful for me, just I've never, I have

  • nothing to do with it, I'm just a fan of it. I think it's like some of the strongest work

  • being done right now.

  • >>Interviewer: Sure.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: And just back to Moneyball before we get to those internet questions.

  • You're obviously in the bay area this weekend, you're not throwing out the opening pitch

  • this weekend or anything are you?

  • >>Jonah Hill: I am.

  • >>Interviewer: You are?

  • >>Jonah Hill: In Oakland, yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: Awesome, nice.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah, I'm very excited.

  • [applause and cheering]

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah, it's gonna be really cool. Thanks for letting me do that. Are you guys

  • A's fans?

  • >>someone in audience: hooo

  • >>Jonah Hill: OK Got, got weird for a second.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yikes. OK That's my time.

  • >>Interviewer: I mean how do you spend like opening weekend for a movie like this? How

  • are you gonna?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Well that's a, well I'm throwing out the A's game this Sunday and then the

  • premier's Monday and then it doesn't come out until the following Friday, so September

  • 23, is when Moneyball opens, but I'm excited to throw the first pitch out. That's gonna

  • be really exciting. And how do I spend the opening weekend?

  • >>Interviewer: Yeah.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Freaking out until I know how if I'll be able to work again, financially

  • based on how the movie did. Hollywood has this really bananas system that is so different

  • than what you guys at home would know about and what I knew about when I was in high school

  • knowing movies and I think it's so bizarre, like the first weekend financial numbers that

  • the movie makes is so important to these people, you know. It's like you almost immediately

  • forget about if you liked the movie or not. So everyone gets real freaked out and worried

  • and I just kind of pace around until someone calls me and tells me I get to do another

  • movie again or not. But I'm so proud of this movie, it's like I know it will, I know it

  • will live on that I don't need to stress, you know, and especially because Brad Pitt's

  • such a big movie star that hopefully that helps in some way.

  • >>Interviewer: Nice. I'm sure you'll do fine. So because we're at YouTube one of our standard

  • questions is really, you know, if and when you ever sing in front of a computer looking

  • at YouTube, what are you looking at?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Well you know YouTube, not to blow smoke or whatever, but it's such a big

  • part of a writer's room. So obviously on movie sets, every movie set I've been on as an actor,

  • you know during 'Cyrus', John C. Reilly, like one of the main ways we bonded was trading

  • YouTube videos and you know in the writers' room for Allen Gregory, the animated show,

  • you know it's a bunch of people writing comedy for a TV show and you know trying to think

  • of things that are funny sometimes you need to be inspired and you need to take breaks,

  • constant, constant breaks and procrastination and a lot of it is just needing, needing a

  • laugh and needing something to entertain us in, in, in our writer's internet, our writer's

  • assistant, he controls the internet in the room and it's, the home page is YouTube because

  • it's like, we'll say, hey, alright, we're not writing anything good, we haven't, we

  • been stuck on this scene for the past hour. Pull up blah, blah, blah video and let's laugh

  • for a second. So you know, it's a constant part of my day, a constant part of the creative

  • process, for at least my creative process, because you need breaks in the day that are

  • short, 'cause you don't have all the time in the world and you need short breaks in

  • the day that are punchy and can make you entertained. And that's really for me the service that

  • you guys provide that is really beneficial to my creative process.

  • >>Interviewer: Cool. So we have some questions that people asked through the @Google Talks

  • channel. One of them is from a guy called Burgers Taste Good.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Well, that's a great name. Yes.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Interviewer: He's not wrong there. He likes the the game dude channel on YouTube and he

  • thinks you're great and wants to know

  • >>Jonah Hill: Thanks.

  • >>Interviewer: would you ever do a video with the game dude? I'm not sure if the game dude

  • is also Burgers Taste Good. He may be asking on behalf of himself.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Oh, really? I don't know what the game dude is, but burgers do taste good

  • and I wish him the best in his hamburger consumption and life.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Interviewer: Excellent. So Brugger Chick from Seoul in Korea asked what are your favorite

  • movies, both of your own and just in general?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Oh, OK. My favorite movies, I mean I'm, I'm a big cinephile. Some of my

  • favorite movies of all time. My favorite movie is Goodfellas, that's my favorite movie. Rushmore,

  • Election, Big Lebowski, Groundhog Day, Midnight Cowboy, Tootsie, The Graduate, I mean, all

  • Paul Thomas Anderson's movies, Adaptation. I mean I could go on for a long time and I

  • won't bore you guys, but I guess some of my favorite movies of my own is a very egomaniacal

  • question to answer and self-centered question to answer, but I guess the ones I'm most proud

  • of, you know I'm really proud of all of them, but I guess if I was like going to a space,

  • country, or like a different planet or something and I had to say like here's like what I did,

  • I would probably give them Superbad and Cyrus and Moneyball.

  • >>Interviewer: Nice.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah. And my one scene in 40-Year-Old Virgin 'cause I really liked that e-bay store

  • guy. I always wondered what happened to that guy.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Interviewer: Excellent. I was gonna ask you, though, there is a Superbad question

  • >>Jonah Hill: He's wearing those boots, somewhere.

  • >>Interviewer: Where do you think the characters from Superbad are now?

  • >>Jonah Hill: I, well we always talked about that like if we-, if there was ever gonna

  • be another one, and I think the, well, Seth and Evan wrote that and I guess it's Seth,

  • so maybe that guy is Seth now. But we always talked about it like my character would be

  • living a depressing life in that same town and Michael's character [chuckles] would be

  • like working here, successful and happy and my guy would still be like at home living

  • with his parents. So that's why we didn't make another one, because we felt it would

  • be more depressing. [laughing]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Interviewer: So Ryan Sescomb from Boomer in Texas asks, Jonah, you lost some weight

  • recently. What was the hardest thing to give up and any advice for anybody else?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Well, the hardest thing to give up would be burgers, 'cause they taste good.

  • And any advice? I don't know. It's just like anything you're gonna do, like you know when

  • I wanted to become an actor and start making movies, it was the same kind of determination,

  • the same kind of thing where you're like, you make a decision and you're like I know

  • this is gonna be difficult, I know it's not gonna be the easiest thing in the world, but

  • I'm determined to do it and I really care, I'm really caring about this decision. So

  • you just make it a priority and, and you know when anyone's starting out in any business

  • or any sort of life endeavor or any sort of relationship, you're, you're, you're starting

  • out with the intention to go all the way and to me it was just a decision and I just made

  • a commitment to sticking to it.

  • >>Interviewer: Cool.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: So.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Except for all the hummus I just ate backstage which was

  • >>Interviewer: Delicious and healthy.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Hummus, yeah, it was great. Eat a lot of hummus at YouTube, that's my

  • advice, if you're ever, move to YouTube and eat their hummus, that's how you'll stay healthy.

  • >>Interviewer: So

  • >>Jonah Hill: Right?

  • >>Interviewer: Absolutely.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Great.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Interviewer: Elaine Baseball from New York said

  • >>Jonah Hill: No, seriously, can all of them move here and eat your hummus all day?

  • >>Interviewer: We just opened the second floor, so yeah, there's more space than there was.

  • >>Jonah Hill: OK, great, wonderful.

  • >>Interviewer: So Elaine Baseball from New York says, Jonah.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Seriously, though how much hummus do you have?

  • >>Interviewer: Um.

  • [laughter] >>Jonah Hill: Do you have enough for everyone

  • on the internet or no?

  • >>Interviewer: Almost infinity, infinity hummus.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: Is it true that there's a whole 'nother YouTube filled with hummus?

  • >>Interviewer: There is, it comes in a giant tube every morning and they park it outside.

  • >>Jonah Hill: And it's yours?

  • >>Interviewer: They pipe it in. There was a swimming pool downstairs, but now it's just

  • filled with delicious, delicious hummus.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Hummus. OK Do you put chlorine in the hummus so you can swim in it still?

  • >>Interviewer: [Sigh]

  • >>Jonah Hill: So when people urinate in the hummus it's not hazardous?

  • [laughter]

  • >>Interviewer: That's why it tasted the way it did. I had no idea.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Interviewer: So Elaine Baseball from New York wants to know, Jonah, I want

  • >>Jonah Hill: Do you like hummus? Yes, I do like hummus.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Interviewer: Do you have a favorite flavor of hummus? Just generic?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Just YouTube flavor.

  • >>Interviewer: YouTube.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Interviewer: With all those little dogs on skateboards through it.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Is it true they grind up all the videos that have stopped gotting getting

  • hits and they make the hummus out of it?

  • >>Interviewer: That's exactly how it's made.

  • >>Jonah Hill: It's made from forgotten YouTube videos?

  • >>Interviewer: Yeah. They're, they're not forgotten, they're just recycled.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Interviewer: Matter can be created and destroyed.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Hummus is cool you guys. I love hummus.

  • >>Interviewer: Excellent. From hummus to hip hop.

  • >>Jonah Hill: OK Yeah. What's the question?

  • >>Interviewer: The question from Elaine Baseball in New York, apparently at one time you were

  • talking about being a hip hop producer, was there some, I don't know if that's true. You

  • know what happened with that? And maybe is that a safe question for myself. You have

  • Method Man in this set or so maybe there was some

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah. Well when I was in high school I had an MPC and I would make hip hop

  • beats for fun, but, and I thought that might have been some sort of job opportunity, but

  • then I realized I, that seemed a lot harder as a 16-year-old white dude without any like

  • hip hop experience at all. And I just, you know honestly, I, I grew up as worshiping

  • hip hop. I love it. I love all kinds of music, I'm an audiophile too, and I just love all

  • different kinds of music, but I'm a huge hip hop fan and that was something that I was

  • really interested in, but then movies kind of pushed that out of the way at a certain

  • point.

  • >>Interviewer: And did you have any interactions with Method Man on the pieces?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Oh, yeah, yeah, tons, he's great.

  • >>Interviewer: Yeah.

  • >>Jonah Hill: He told such cool stories. I mean, for like I mean if my 16-year-old self

  • or 10-year-old self knew what I was doing now and who I would be making movies with

  • and having experiences with, it would just be too overwhelming or mind blowing for little

  • Jonah to understand, you know? I would sit in my room and listen to Wu Tang records every

  • night when I got home from school and, and watch movies and you know to be around these

  • people it's really inspiring and I just try and learn as much as I can from them. You

  • know he had so many cool stories about when they were starting out and what that was like

  • and for me that's like heaven to hear about all that stuff.

  • >>Interviewer: And kind of connected to that, Eso, I can't even pronounce it, E-S-O-E-Z-T-V

  • said like you developed a stand-up act when you were working on Funny People, which I

  • guess is a similar kind of an on-stage microphone kind of thing. Is that something you're gonna

  • go back to, or was that

  • >>Jonah Hill: Never, never,

  • >>Interviewer: Never, no?

  • >>Jonah Hill: never, never, no. I'm an actor [laughing] and stand-up is a whole different

  • art form and I think it's arrogant, it would be arrogant of me to assume like I can just

  • go do stand-up, you know, because I've been in some funny movies, or whatever, you know.

  • Like guys like Chris Rock and Louis C.K., they're, they're brilliant at what they do

  • and it's just a different art form, you know. And I'm was an actor playing a stand-up in

  • Funny People and I had to develop a stand-up act and it was to this day probably the hardest

  • thing I'd ever had to do to prepare for a movie because I went out for six months and

  • you know it takes people, honestly it takes years to get great at being a stand-up comedian

  • and for me I love bouncing off of people, whether it's in a dramatic scene or a comedic

  • scene, and in stand-up you're alone on stage with a microphone saying, please laugh at

  • me. And it's terrifying, you know? [chuckles] It's really terrifying. So I, it was such

  • a courage, it gave me a lot of courage as a performer, like practicing for that, but

  • I, I'll leave that to the guys and women that are, that are brilliant at it.

  • >>Interviewer: Cool. We have a couple more internet questions but we also have a couple

  • of mics here on either side, so if anybody has a question maybe you could start making

  • your way to the mic. I Love Mostly Anything Two says have you ever been stung by a bee?

  • >>Jonah Hill: What was the first part of the question?

  • >>Interviewer: I, no the person who asked the question is I Love Mostly Anything Two,

  • 'cause mostly anything one was taken obviously.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: Have you ever been stung by a bee?

  • >>Jonah Hill: I have been stung by a bee.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yep.

  • >>Interviewer: Excellent. Mongo Man One from Michigan wants to know if

  • >>Jonah Hill: I know him.

  • >>Interviewer: You do?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: He apparently couldn't ask you this in person and decided to ask you

  • this via the internet.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: Have you ever considered being a song and dance man? Could you see yourself

  • in a musical opposite Hugh Jackman?

  • >>Jonah Hill: I don't know about opposite Hugh Jackman, but I'd love to be in a musical.

  • I love to, you know John C. Reilly in Chicago or something like that or maybe like Little

  • Shop of Horrors, you know something, something like that. They've actually talked to me about

  • some musical stuff and I would never like be one of those actors who releases an album

  • or anything stupid like that, but I would, I would love to be in like a musical movie

  • or maybe a play sometime, it would be really fun.

  • >>Interviewer: Excellent. Your final internet question, also from Mongo Man One, he left

  • several, do you have an opinion on the designated batter rule?

  • >>Jonah Hill: I'm OK with it.

  • >>Interviewer: You're OK with it?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: Excellent.

  • >>Jonah Hill: I don't lose sleep over it.

  • >>Interviewer: You don't lose sleep, fair enough. Do you want to start taking some questions?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Sure.

  • >>female #1: Hi. Thanks for coming. I, we saw Moneyball the other night and thought

  • it was great.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Thanks.

  • >>female #1: I too am a fan of the hummus, so I'm gonna bring it back, actually had it

  • for snack time today.

  • >>Jonah Hill: I love hummus-based questions.

  • [laughter]

  • >>female #1: So, since there's plain and spicy, I'm wondering which one you had.

  • >>Jonah Hill: I had plain.

  • >>female audience member #1: OK

  • >>Jonah Hill: You know my feelings on it, but I imagine that there's also a place in

  • my heart for spicy hummus.

  • >>female #1: And did you have the carrots or chips or what was your dipper?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Well, what I did was, now I'm gonna throw a real curve ball at you right

  • now. I didn't dip anything into the hummus.

  • [laughter]

  • >>female audience member #1: OK

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: And, I didn't eat the hummus plain. What I did was, was there was a salad

  • there that had like garbanzo beans and tomatoes and onions and I put the hummus on top of

  • it and smushed it all around and ate that and it was so cool.

  • [laughter]

  • >>female #1: Alright, thank you.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Isn't that why you guys are watching this, right now?

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: So that's my recommendation is mix your hummus with stuff, mix it up,

  • get crazy out there, internet, you know. Don't, don't just dip stuff in your hummus, make

  • your hummus what you want it to be. Swim in it.

  • >>Interviewer: Nice. Do you want to kind of go back and forth, take both sides?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Oh, sure, yeah.

  • >>male #1: How's it going?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Hey.

  • >>male #1: I'd like to start off by saying you should mix the spicy and regular hummus.

  • >>Jonah Hill: OK

  • >>male #1: That's the way to go.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Mild. Make your own mild hummus.

  • [laughter]

  • >>male #1: Exactly.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Right.

  • >>male #1: So I heard a rumor that there was a lot of prank pulling on the set of Moneyball?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yes.

  • >>male #1: And I heard a lot of that was on Brad Pitt's side. I was wondering if you got

  • him back at all?

  • >>Jonah Hill: They, OK, so there were a lot of pranks on the Moneyball set. Ninety-four

  • percent of them were Brad directed at me.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: He got me really good. I had this golf cart that I was really excited about

  • because I felt that it was a symbol that I had finally become successful that they gave

  • me my own golf cart. So just him and I had our own golf carts to drive around the set

  • and stuff, so we would race and smash into each other and it was really fun. And he knew

  • how much I cared about this golf cart, and so we would go do like a really serious scene

  • and then I'd walk out and like the golf cart would have no wheels on it, it would be on

  • cinder blocks.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: And he would just walk outside and smile and he was in the scene with me,

  • which means he has little prank elves that like

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: do this stuff while you're working. And then I'd walk out another time and it'd

  • be completely upside down. And then I'd walk out another time and there'd be male genitalia,

  • fake male genitalia hanging from the back of it. And then one time I was driving my

  • actual car home and my friend was driving behind me and called me and said, hey, I'm

  • driving behind you, there's pink male genitalia hanging from the back of your car.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: And then I got an e-mail from him, saying, how was the drive home? And then

  • eventually he became obsessed with me being obsessed with the band Wham, which he just,

  • made it, made it clear that he thought I liked the band Wham.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: And so I'd walk into my character's office and there'd be a framed Wham poster

  • in there instead of a framed Oakland poster and then my golf cart got wrapped in all pink,

  • you know like car wraps? And then there was the time when there was a Photoshop picture

  • of me and him as the two members of Wham on the front and it said, Jonah Hill #1 Wham

  • Fan and then on the side it said Wham Mobile. And then the final prank was every time I

  • turned on the engine, he had it rigged so it blasted Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: At full volume on a loop anytime I had an engine on. So if I had a meeting

  • with an executive at Sony or something, I would have to drive over there in this, this

  • golf cart.

  • [laughter]

  • >>male #1: But you never got him back?

  • >>Jonah Hill: I did but I'm gonna be on Letterman on Tuesday and I'm waiting to show my pranks

  • back on him there, no offense.

  • >>male #1: I respect that.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: Moving on, question over here.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yes.

  • >>male #2: Hey, so big fan. One of the things that I love about your movies is that you

  • seem to have this like really great relationship with a lot of the other comedians, you know,

  • and I'm just wondering is that just great acting or you know is there something [inaudible]

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yes, I hated all, all of them. They're all terrible people.

  • >>male audience member #2: So how is it working with like you know it seems like a tight-knit

  • group of [inaudible]

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah, you know like Paul Rudd and Michael Cera and Seth Rogen and Jason

  • Segel and Danny McBride and all these guys, and Franko, and all, all these people you

  • know a lot of us came up together, you know, started together and it was a lot of us became

  • successful at the same time and with each other. So what I liked about that a lot and

  • we're all still friends, but it's been interesting because now we've all, we're all doing our

  • own movies kind of thing, so it's not as much as like a gang, and not because we don't still

  • love each other and wanna make movies together all the time, which we do, but everyone's

  • kind of following their dream that they had independently before. And now it's kind of

  • hard since we all became actually employable, before we were unemployable, so it's like,

  • hey you guys wanna all be in a movie together? We're like, hell yeah. But now we're all employable,

  • so we'll take a movie and then someone else will take a movie and the schedules, the schedules

  • are really hard to align and have all the planets align all at once. But they're, all

  • those guys, are the greatest group of guys ever. I mean they're all so funny. And if

  • we're ever somewhere and one of us sees the other one, it does feel like we gravitate

  • towards one another, and hang out with each other at that party or whatever it would be.

  • And I don't know, I really look at that time as my college experience, you know, because

  • my early 20s were spent with this really fun group of guys making each other laugh. Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: Any more takers?

  • >>female #2: [inaudible]

  • >>Interviewer: Excellent.

  • >>Jonah Hill: I'm not gonna twist your arm, you know.

  • >>female #2: Alright, fine, OK.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yes the hummus was great.

  • >>female #2: I'm also a huge Wham fan.

  • >>Jonah Hill: OK, yeah.

  • >>female #2: What's your favorite song? That's not my question, but I'm just curious.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Oh, I'm not actually a Wham fan.

  • >>female #2: Oh, that's the whole point then. Oh I am, a card-carrying

  • >>Jonah Hill: That was the joke was that he decided I was a Wham fan. I have nothing,

  • I don't even understand, I think Wham is probably awesome. I only know that one song. I know

  • like the big T-shirt with the sayings on it.

  • >>female #2: You know there's a song where they rap, it's really good.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Oh, really?

  • >>female #2: Yeah, you should check it out.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Alright, well I gotta get on that.

  • >>female #2: Well I was, I saw the movie Get Him to the Greek which I'm a big fan of because

  • >>Jonah Hill: Oh, thanks.

  • >>female #2: because I used to be an assistant to a minor English musical celebrity.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah.

  • >>female #2: And so it reminded me a lot of myself, your character. Do you have any tips

  • for, I'm an assistant here, but it's not the same, it's not as bad. Do you have tips for

  • >>Jonah Hill: They don't make you shove heroin up your bum?

  • [laughter]

  • >>female #2: No comment.

  • [laughter]

  • >>female #2: I plead the fifth. Would you have any tips for anything you learned on

  • set when you were filming that for someone who has to take care of a celebrity?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Are you calling your boss a crazy person?

  • >>female #2: No, not my boss here, but you know maybe in the past.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Sure.

  • >>female #2: Any tips for dealing with a minor celebrity?

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah, I don't know, somewhere else man.

  • >>female #2: Yeah. Just winky face, winky face.

  • >>Jonah Hill: It was at WhoWhube, another company you worked at right before this? I

  • don't know. I guess you'd have to ask these guys who work with me.

  • >>female #2: How was it working with Seth? I mean Seth, oh Jonah, sorry, oh I guess I

  • just got in my head earlier.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah. No, it's OK. I don't know, I think working with me's probably pretty

  • easy. I think Russell Brand's character was probably a really big exaggeration of, of

  • what that was like. I've never worked for a rock star, so I don't, I don't really know,

  • but I imagine that's a really arduous task.

  • >>female #2: Alright. Thank you.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Thank you.

  • >>Interviewer: OK, Jonah.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Oh, wait, this girl was about to stand up.

  • >>Interviewer: Sorry, my apologies.

  • >>female #3: Do you have a girlfriend and if so does she like hummus as much as you?

  • >>Jonah Hill: I am dating hummus currently. It's a giant gelatinous hummus person that

  • I've carved out of hummus and we're engaged, so. No, you know, I try not to talk about

  • like my family or friends or stuff like that because, because you know I signed up to be

  • doing this and it's crazy if you are pulled into something that you didn't sign up for,

  • you know what I mean? But I am dating someone, yes, and she's made of hummus

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: and she's great.

  • >>Interviewer: She's delicious, I'm sure.

  • >>Jonah Hill: She's frozen hummus. I mean what's not to love? It's hummus but it's freezing

  • cold. Why did this become the centerpiece of this interview? Why do I regret doing this?

  • [laughing]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Interviewer: I think there's more back there.

  • >>Jonah Hill: OK, cool, I'm looking forward to it.

  • >>Interviewer: As we've established there's infinite hummus. So to wrap up, Jonah, do

  • you have any final thoughts about Moneyball that you want to share?

  • >>Jonah Hill: I just think it's a really wonderful moving movie and it's, it's a rare treat for

  • me to get to be a part of a movie like this and I'm just really, really proud of it and

  • thank you guys for watching or coming to this and if you want to see a good movie September

  • 23, go see Moneyball, it won't let you down.

  • >>Interviewer: Excellent, well

  • >>Jonah Hill: Yeah.

  • >>Interviewer: I just ask everybody then to thank me in or join me in thanking you for

  • being here Jonah.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Jonah Hill: OK cool.

  • >>Interviewer: Yeah, could you also thank me for that? No.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Awesome. Oh, thank what?

  • [applause]

  • >>Interviewer: Thank, thank you for being with us.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Thanks, appreciate it.

  • >>Interviewer: OK.

  • >>Jonah Hill: Alright, thanks.

  • >>Interviewer: Cheers.

>>Interviewer: Good afternoon and welcome to YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California,

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