Jonah Hill: It’s hard to relate to film stars

Jonah Hill has opened up about his experience of stardom.

Jonah Hill thinks it’s hard for the public to “relate” to movie stars.

The award-winning actor has reflected on his experience of fame, suggesting that only a select group of people can truly relate to him and his colleagues.

Jonah, 42, told Martin Scorsese for Interview magazine: “Not many people can relate to a movie star, but the way I view it is, we’ve all turned ourselves into scorched, middle-aged movie stars by putting our lives up for judgment on social media every second of every day.

“You go through the same exact feelings being Tom Cruise as you do being a mom in Salt Lake City putting her kids up online for public judgement.”

Jonah explained that he feels pressure to “live up to the packaging”.

He said: “You build an identity just like a famous person does.

“Look at me, or you. ‘Martin Scorsese. World-renowned director.’ ‘Jonah Hill, great actor, moron.’ Then you have to live up to the packaging you’ve put out into the world. I started noticing it with younger people, where they have the same feelings I felt as a public person.”

Jonah made his directorial debut with the coming-of-age comedy-drama Mid90s.

But the movie star previously admitted to underestimating the challenge of directing.

He told W magazine: “I think all of your human experiences add up to the person you are now, and all your film experiences add up to the actor, writer, director, whatever else it is that you are.

“So, yeah: I’ve picked up so much from all these amazing people I’ve worked with, whether Gus, the Coen brothers, Martin Scorsese, Bennett Miller, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Jonze, or Judd Apatow.

“But you know, in the beginning, I thought, ‘Okay, this is going to be simple because I know how I’d like to be spoken to as an actor, so that’s what I did.’

“But then you realise, ‘Oh, Lucas Hedges is totally different than Katherine Waterston is totally different than…'”