Jonah Hill will no longer promote his films to preserve his sanity

In order to preserve his sanity, actor Jonah Hill has announced that he will no longer promote his films.

Revealed to star in generational comedy SuperGraveJonah Hill rose to international recognition through sports drama The Strategist. In addition to having definitively propelled him into the very selective sights of Hollywood, his performance alongside Brad Pitt notably earned him multiple Golden Globe, BAFTA and Oscar nominations. Better known now for having given the reply to Leonardo DiCaprio in the brilliant The wolf of Wall Street by Martin Scorsese, the actor has since chained projects and multiplied registers, occasionally moving away from the comedies that have long characterized him.

More recently, Jonah Hill was not only announced for the casting of You Peoplea Netflix comedy carried by Eddy Murphy and David Duchovny, but also to the realization of stutz. Shot in secret, the documentary is conceived as a personal column on mental health issuesand will return to the relationship between the actor and his therapist Phil Stutz, whom he consulted on the advice of Joaquin Pheonix.

In therapy, available on Arte TV

A subject dear to Jonah Hill, who also indicated no longer wish to promote his next films, including that of his own documentary. In an open letter relayed by variety, the actor returned to the reasons behind this choice, but also, more simply, to the importance of knowing your limits, and protecting yourself if necessary:

“I have just finished directing my second feature film, a documentary focusing on my relationship with my therapist which will explore the twists and turns of mental health in general. The main challenge of this film is to offer future viewers the tools that I was able to acquire during my own therapy, to make them accessible for private use through the prism of an entertaining film.”

A whole different kind of entertainment

“Through this film and the personal discovery that came with it, I realized that I had spent almost twenty years of my life suffering from anxiety attacks, which were exacerbated by media appearances and public events. I am extremely grateful to know that this film will make its debut at several prestigious festivals, and I sincerely hope that this film will help those who see it, however I will not be promoting it, nor those of my next movies.

I am making this decision to protect myself. If I made myself even sicker by doing this promotion, I wouldn’t be acting in accordance with my values, and with those advocated by the film. Usually, this kind of statement makes me cringe, but I understand being one of the privileged few to have the opportunity to take time for me. I wouldn’t lose my job while I work on my anxiety. “

“You want to talk about it ?”

“Through this letter, and through Stutz’s lens, I hope to normalize talking about these kinds of things, to make the necessary arrangements to get better, and to encourage those around them to better understand the troubles they are having. suffer. I hope this project will speak for itself, and I would like to thank all the people with whom I have been able to collaborate, my business partners, but also all those who will read this letter. Thank you for your understanding, and for your support.”

A respectable step for the actor. After having already publicly expressed his heightened insecurities by the years of mockery and grossophobic remarks by the press and journalists, it seems that Jonah Hill now feels comfortable about going for a more drastic method. Wishing him to feel better in a while.