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‘Superbad’ Team: Jonah Hill ‘Hated’ Christopher Mintz-Plasse After Being Verbally ‘Attacked’ and ‘Insulted’ During Audition

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Zack Sharf Vanity Fair celebrated the 15th anniversary of “Superbad” with a brand new oral history of the R-rated comedy blockbuster, which includes that revelation that Jonah Hill “immediately hated” Christopher Mintz-Plasse after their audition together.

Hill was already cast in the film as Seth and was reading scenes opposite actors auditioning to play Fogell (aka McLovin). That’s when Mintz-Plasse came in the room for a third callback.“Chris was really, really amazing off the bat.

And I think he was really annoying to me at that time,” Hill said.Producer Judd Apatow remembered the audition more vividly, saying Mintz-Plasse was “very caustic and attacked Jonah and did improvs insulting Jonah.” “He played it like he was clearly the coolest guy in the room and everyone else was a nerd and a loser,” director Greg Mottola said of Mintz-Plasse’s audition. “He was Dean Martin instead of Jerry Lewis.”“Jonah immediately hated him,” remembered Seth Rogen, who co-wrote and starred in the film. “He was like, ‘That was fucking with my rhythm.

I couldn’t perform with that guy.'”Apatow added, “Jonah said, ‘I don’t like that guy. I don’t want him doing it.’ And I said, ‘That’s exactly why we’re hiring him.

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