Jonah Hill Confirms What We Suspected All Along About His Former Roommate, Leonardo DiCaprio
Back together again! With Netflix's new movie "Don't Look Up" — which just became one of the streaming service's most-watched movies of all time — fans aren't just talking about how great the movie is, but also the amazing friendship Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill have on- and off-screen.
"Don't Look Up" isn't the first movie Hill and DiCaprio have worked on together. Back in 2013, both actors starred in Martin Scorsese's hit "The Wolf of Wall Street." Now, the two are taking on the streaming world with "Don't Look Up." The movie follows two astronomers as they tour the world to warn all mankind that a comet will soon destroy the Earth. In the movie, Hill plays the son of Meryl Streep, who plays the president, while DiCaprio plays one of the astronomers alongside Jennifer Lawrence.
While the movie addresses the so-called end of the world, filming for "Don't Look Up" might have felt like the end times for its cast and crew, as it took place during the heart of the pandemic. Since the actors were forced to limit interaction for health and safety reasons, Hill is now sharing funny memories about his time living and acting alongside DiCaprio.
Leonardo DiCaprio tried to get Jonah Hill into different types of movies
During filming for "Don't Look Up," Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill became roommates. "While in lockdown, during the making of the movie, Leonardo DiCaprio and I decided to live together in Boston. We couldn't go to restaurants, so we lived in a house together and watched tons of films," Hill told W Magazine. While living together — and being the film buff he is — DiCaprio tried to help Hill expand his taste in movies.
First and foremost, DiCaprio attempted to get Hill into "The Mandalorian." As one of the newest series in the Star Wars franchise, it follows "the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy, far from the authority of the New Republic." But, despite DiCaprio's best efforts to get Hill into the series, it sadly didn't work. "I used to have a rule: If it didn't happen or it couldn't happen, then I just wasn't interested, because I would lose focus," Hill explained. "[I]t was like, Baby Yoda was so cute, but I just didn't give a f*** because I didn't know anything that it was about."
Despite "The Mandalorian" not working out in DiCaprio's favor, Hill did describe falling in love with "Game of Thrones," as he's now on Season 4. Perhaps the next time Hill and DiCaprio make a film together, they can binge "Game of Thrones" instead.