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Here is the trailer for Jonah Hill‘s new movie Cyrus, which hits theaters this Friday, June 18. The movie revolves around a young man who is a little TOO close with his mom, Molly (played by Marisa Tomei), to the point that when she tries to date a seemingly nice guy, John (played by John C. Reilly), things don’t go smoothly at all… for anyone.
RadioPlanet.tv sat in with a roundtable of journalists to ask the important questions about Jonah’s decision to take on a role so different from his character in the current box office hit Get Him to the Greek. Read on…
By: Dove
Your character in Get Him To The Greek is a real go getter, and this character is a real failure-to-launch type. Did you pick roles that were so opposite intentionally?
JH: No. I’m only known for one movie which is Superbad, hopefully people go see Get Him To The Greek. The other stuff is smaller and candid scenes. In Superbad I’m this horny, loud-mouthed angst-filled teenager, and that happened to be a popular movie, so people assume that’s what I do. I love that movie, I think it’s fantastic and I’m so proud and lucky it entered my life the way it did. That being said, there are all different types of roles I’d like to play, and if you watch these three movies, the characters aren’t similar at all and that’s something that I’m excited about.
What were your favorite improve scenes in Get Him To The Greek and Cyrus?
JH: There’s this scene in Get Him To The Greek where I have illegal narcotics in my body uncomfortably, and we improvised a scene where I have to sneeze and I’m scared because of what’s in my body. That was completely improvised. In this movie Mark [Duplass] always brings up the scene where we’re eating dinner together for the first time and I say, “But seriously don’t f**k my mom” – that was improvised.
To me, the best scene in any movie I’ve ever been in was in Cyrus, and it’s so hard to watch for me because it’s really heartbreaking. When Marisa and I are sitting on the bed and she’s explaining why she may have made some mistakes, and I’m explaining why I don’t want John in her life because I feel like he’s taking my place. It’s just hard for me to watch, that was improvised. While I love watching the movie, when I watch that scene I just feel bad for the both of them. The movie was really about three people, and I always looked about it from Cyrus’ point of view because I was playing that character. His story was heartbreaking because this was the closest person in the world, and that was being threatened.
The scuffle you had with John C. Reilly, was that really you guys? How choreographed was it, and did anyone get hurt?
JH: What’s funny is we did have stunt guys, and they must have thought they were preparing for a John Woo movie. They burst out of the door, backflipped over these chairs… and when they did the fall onto the table it was John and I after that.
Click here to read the full interview and Cyrus movie review on UrbLife.com
