Jonah Hill.Photo: Christoph Soeder/Picture Alliance via Getty ImagesJonah Hillis reflecting on his “overnight” fame.In a recent Q&A with directorAdam McKayforGQ Style’s Fall/Winter cover story, the 37-year-old actor opened up about shooting to fame after starring inSuperbadin his early 20s.“It was very overnight for me.Michael Ceraand I talk about it all the time. We just had this really rare experience: One day life was one way, and then one day life was a different way,” he said. “Right afterSuperbad, I took a writing job onBrüno[withSacha Baron Cohen].““I was 23, and they asked me to hostSNLfor the first time,” he continued. “And I didn’t want to leave the writers room. I was like, ‘Guys, I don’t know what to do.; It was my first job working for Sacha. And Sacha was like, ‘Dude, you should go hostSNL.’ To me, having a writing job for Sacha Baron Cohen was as rad as hostingSNL.“The21 Jump Streetstar said that he thinks he had “too much power” at a young age and later had to take a break from Hollywood as a result.“I was a kid. I had probably too much power for a young person, and too much autonomy, and not enough life skills,” he said. “I dropped out of college, and I used to not get why people would go to college. Because if you’re ambitious, why would you spend four years just idling? And then I didn’t realize until I turned 30 that what those four years gave all my friends was this wobbling period of how to be a person.“Paul Archuleta/FilmMagicNever miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.“I was really advanced professionally but really behind personally. All my 20s, I wasn’t really looking inward. I was just running toward success. Or trying to find success. And when I was 30, I was like, I’ve always wanted to be a director, but if I don’t get off this train now and writeMid90s, I’m not going to do it,” Hill added, referencing his 2018 coming-of-age comedy. “And I hit Pause. I took three or four years to reshape things. I was like, I could just do this for 10 more years and I’m not going to evolve as a person.“Hill clarified that though he’s “still a workaholic,” he has found a way to keep his life more balanced than it was in his early days of fame.“I still write and direct and get all my projects in order and stuff. But then I also surf every day,” he said. “I make myself surf every day. I don’t know if dropping out is kind of the accurate word, but I kind of dropped out a little bit. I still love my creativity and my work. But I definitely live a very quiet lifestyle, where I surf, hang with my dog, hang with my nephews. Just keep it mellow.“Elsewhere in the interview, he discussed the power of therapy and his upcoming documentary about his own well-known therapist, Phil Stutz.“He invented a set of visualization techniques that greatly changed my life,” Hill said of Stutz. “Netflix let me make a doc on therapy and Phil’s teachings, and then it became about Phil’s life, and then it became about how insane it is that I am making a movie about my therapist, and now it’s become… I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s become very collapsed on itself.“He added, “The person that I vent to while I’m making a film, I now can’t vent to, because the film is about him, and I can’t let him know it maybe isn’t going to work.”
Jonah Hill.Photo: Christoph Soeder/Picture Alliance via Getty Images
Jonah Hillis reflecting on his “overnight” fame.In a recent Q&A with directorAdam McKayforGQ Style’s Fall/Winter cover story, the 37-year-old actor opened up about shooting to fame after starring inSuperbadin his early 20s.“It was very overnight for me.Michael Ceraand I talk about it all the time. We just had this really rare experience: One day life was one way, and then one day life was a different way,” he said. “Right afterSuperbad, I took a writing job onBrüno[withSacha Baron Cohen].““I was 23, and they asked me to hostSNLfor the first time,” he continued. “And I didn’t want to leave the writers room. I was like, ‘Guys, I don’t know what to do.; It was my first job working for Sacha. And Sacha was like, ‘Dude, you should go hostSNL.’ To me, having a writing job for Sacha Baron Cohen was as rad as hostingSNL.“The21 Jump Streetstar said that he thinks he had “too much power” at a young age and later had to take a break from Hollywood as a result.“I was a kid. I had probably too much power for a young person, and too much autonomy, and not enough life skills,” he said. “I dropped out of college, and I used to not get why people would go to college. Because if you’re ambitious, why would you spend four years just idling? And then I didn’t realize until I turned 30 that what those four years gave all my friends was this wobbling period of how to be a person.“Paul Archuleta/FilmMagicNever miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.“I was really advanced professionally but really behind personally. All my 20s, I wasn’t really looking inward. I was just running toward success. Or trying to find success. And when I was 30, I was like, I’ve always wanted to be a director, but if I don’t get off this train now and writeMid90s, I’m not going to do it,” Hill added, referencing his 2018 coming-of-age comedy. “And I hit Pause. I took three or four years to reshape things. I was like, I could just do this for 10 more years and I’m not going to evolve as a person.“Hill clarified that though he’s “still a workaholic,” he has found a way to keep his life more balanced than it was in his early days of fame.“I still write and direct and get all my projects in order and stuff. But then I also surf every day,” he said. “I make myself surf every day. I don’t know if dropping out is kind of the accurate word, but I kind of dropped out a little bit. I still love my creativity and my work. But I definitely live a very quiet lifestyle, where I surf, hang with my dog, hang with my nephews. Just keep it mellow.“Elsewhere in the interview, he discussed the power of therapy and his upcoming documentary about his own well-known therapist, Phil Stutz.“He invented a set of visualization techniques that greatly changed my life,” Hill said of Stutz. “Netflix let me make a doc on therapy and Phil’s teachings, and then it became about Phil’s life, and then it became about how insane it is that I am making a movie about my therapist, and now it’s become… I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s become very collapsed on itself.“He added, “The person that I vent to while I’m making a film, I now can’t vent to, because the film is about him, and I can’t let him know it maybe isn’t going to work.”
Jonah Hillis reflecting on his “overnight” fame.
In a recent Q&A with directorAdam McKayforGQ Style’s Fall/Winter cover story, the 37-year-old actor opened up about shooting to fame after starring inSuperbadin his early 20s.
“It was very overnight for me.Michael Ceraand I talk about it all the time. We just had this really rare experience: One day life was one way, and then one day life was a different way,” he said. “Right afterSuperbad, I took a writing job onBrüno[withSacha Baron Cohen].”
“I was 23, and they asked me to hostSNLfor the first time,” he continued. “And I didn’t want to leave the writers room. I was like, ‘Guys, I don’t know what to do.; It was my first job working for Sacha. And Sacha was like, ‘Dude, you should go hostSNL.’ To me, having a writing job for Sacha Baron Cohen was as rad as hostingSNL.”
The21 Jump Streetstar said that he thinks he had “too much power” at a young age and later had to take a break from Hollywood as a result.
“I was a kid. I had probably too much power for a young person, and too much autonomy, and not enough life skills,” he said. “I dropped out of college, and I used to not get why people would go to college. Because if you’re ambitious, why would you spend four years just idling? And then I didn’t realize until I turned 30 that what those four years gave all my friends was this wobbling period of how to be a person.”
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“I was really advanced professionally but really behind personally. All my 20s, I wasn’t really looking inward. I was just running toward success. Or trying to find success. And when I was 30, I was like, I’ve always wanted to be a director, but if I don’t get off this train now and writeMid90s, I’m not going to do it,” Hill added, referencing his 2018 coming-of-age comedy. “And I hit Pause. I took three or four years to reshape things. I was like, I could just do this for 10 more years and I’m not going to evolve as a person.”
Hill clarified that though he’s “still a workaholic,” he has found a way to keep his life more balanced than it was in his early days of fame.
“I still write and direct and get all my projects in order and stuff. But then I also surf every day,” he said. “I make myself surf every day. I don’t know if dropping out is kind of the accurate word, but I kind of dropped out a little bit. I still love my creativity and my work. But I definitely live a very quiet lifestyle, where I surf, hang with my dog, hang with my nephews. Just keep it mellow.”
Elsewhere in the interview, he discussed the power of therapy and his upcoming documentary about his own well-known therapist, Phil Stutz.
“He invented a set of visualization techniques that greatly changed my life,” Hill said of Stutz. “Netflix let me make a doc on therapy and Phil’s teachings, and then it became about Phil’s life, and then it became about how insane it is that I am making a movie about my therapist, and now it’s become… I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s become very collapsed on itself.”
He added, “The person that I vent to while I’m making a film, I now can’t vent to, because the film is about him, and I can’t let him know it maybe isn’t going to work.”
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