And I think it’s interesting to watch it with a crowd of people. To me, it’s really ugly and it’s really hard to watch a lot of it.

And things like homophobia and toxic masculinity and treatment of women, even though I don’t agree with these things, they were things I noticed growing up that I wanted to show as unflinchingly as possible so people could decide for themselves where they fall on that line. But they also are very much there for one another. HILL: These kids speak in a way I don’t agree with, they treat women in a way I don’t agree with. He’s remarkable.ĪP: I feel like I certainly learned something about how teenage boys are together from this film. I’m 34 and have been acting for 15 years and have never had to strap a movie on my back and walk across the field with it and he did it at 11.

He was the first kid we read and after he did this scene (of yelling at his mom in the car), everyone was like, oh this isn’t just a good child actor, this is a great actor of any age or gender. HILL: He had the exact quality I was looking for which was someone who was very young for their age but who was 10-feet-tall inside. This image released by A24 shows writer-director Jonah Hill, right, with cast members Lucas Hedges, left, and Sunny Suljic during the filming of “Mid90s.” Image: Tobin Yelland/A24 via AP It’s about a 13-year-old boy, Stevie (Sunny Suljic), growing up in Los Angeles with a single mother (Katherine Waterston), an abusive older brother (Lucas Hedges) who finds solace (and quite a bit of trouble) with bunch of local skateboarders (newcomers Na-kel Smith, Olan Prenatt, Ryder McLaughli and Gio Galicia). He settled on a coming-of-age story, which he laughs is a “tried and true” formula for a first film. He worships filmmakers and has treated what he describes as an “accidental” but “wonderful” 15-year acting career as a partial film school, learning from people like Bennett Miller, who directed him in “Moneyball” and Martin Scorsese on “The Wolf of Wall Street.” But Hill didn’t just want to make any film, he wanted to have something to say, and the confidence and “emotional maturity” required to lead people. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jonah Hill has always wanted to direct. Jonah Hill attends a special screening of “Mid90s” at West LA Courthouse Skate Plaza on Thursday, Oct.

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