Jonah Hill on Bad Raps, Crying Over Cyrus, and Having Your Impostors Killed

The confrontation scene in the bathroom at the wedding was a really heartbreaking moment for the character. I loved that scene.

I can't even watch it.

Why not?

I don't know. It's a douchey, actory thing to say, but it's just hard for me to watch. I feel really bad for him at that moment. The scene between Marisa and I on the bed, when I explained to her that I want her to be happy, but I don't feel John is the right person, and I'm worried I won't be the same person to her anymore -- that's the scene when I kind of cry, because I just find it so sad. He's an adult, but he's just a scared little kid who's afraid his mom's going to be taken away from him.

So besides Cyrus, what else do we have to look forward to from you this year?

I'd say this is the proudest year I have of stuff coming out. If you had asked me when I was younger and I had started doing this, what would you want your career to look like, it would be this year. Because I have this very small, thoughtful, weird, heartbreaking, hilarious movie, and then Get Him to the Greek, which is a rock and roll comedy. I don't think since Superbad I've been in a movie that plays like a rock concert. You see it Friday or Saturday night and you leave amped up. It tested the same as Superbad. We're in great shape -- it's just so energetic and so funny, and Russell [Brand] and I are just such a weird combination. [Director Nick Stoller and I] agreed we wanted to attack the audience. We wanted to make a hard, awesome, rock and roll comedy. It's one of the most fun movies I've ever seen.

And what's the status of The Adventurer's Handbook, the script you co-wrote based on the best-selling book?

I think we're going to shoot that this year!

I've heard it called a Goonies for twentysomething dudes.

That would be great. I think we just really liked Indiana Jones, and Goonies, and adventure movies from the '80s when we were growing up. We just thought it would be really cool to write a movie with guys in their mid-to-late 20s going on an adventure thinking it's going to be like Indiana Jones, and it turns out more like Three Kings. [Laughs] Like, oh! There's guys actually trying to kill us. It's really fun.

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