Jonah Hill has amassed an impressive list of collaborators throughout his years in Hollywood as an actor, from Martin Scorsese to Bennett Miller and Quentin Tarantino, so it’s only fitting he relied on some of them to steer him in the right direction before cameras started rolling on his feature directorial debut, “Mid90s.”
The night before Hill kicked off production, for instance, he ran into Ethan Coen at a restaurant (via Vulture) and asked the legendary filmmaker for advice.
Coen, who directed Hill in “Hail, Caesar!,” told the new director: “Just try and enjoy it. I was so stressed out during my first movie, I didn’t enjoy anything. Even try to enjoy the stress. Just enjoy the newness of it.”
Prior to seeking advice from one of the Coen brothers, Hill had an extensive meeting with Martin Scorsese. Hill earned his second Oscar nomination for starring opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Hill told Vulture he originally expected to meet with Scorsese for 15-minutes, but the conversation ended up lasting four hours. Hill wouldn’t divulge the specifics of his meeting with Scorsese, but he did marvel at how amazing it was to watch Scorsese on the “Wolf” set.
Back in 2016 Jonah Hill told Bill Simmons on the former Any Given Wednesday broadcast on HBO what it was like working with his hero Martin Scorsese on “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
Hill remembered Scorsese’s gift of being able to solve set problems in 30 to 45 seconds, which the actor-director estimates would take other directors hours. “That’s some combination of genius and experience,” Hill said “It’s so awe-inspiring that you don’t even aspire to it.”
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