Aside from a few honors of the Teen Choice and MTV Movie variety, newly minted Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe nominee Jonah Hill is an awards virgin — which makes this year’s lead-up to the Oscars particularly exciting for the actor, who earlier this year impressed critics with his role in Moneyball as Brad Pitt’s Ivy League-educated, number-crunching Oakland A’s wingman. The role, like his 2010 titular turn in Cyrus, was a welcome departure from the wise-cracking characters audiences have grown accustomed to seeing him play, from the early days of Knocked Up and Superbad to last weekend’s The Sitter. Next up, Hill uses his sarcastic charm to crack down on a high school drug ring in the March 16 feature adaptation of 21 Jump Street, which Hill also wrote and produced.
On the eve of his first SAG Award nomination, Hill phoned Movieline to discuss the anxieties of award season, how he plans to maintain the momentum of his dramatic evolution and and his favorite film scene of all time.
Hi Jonah! How does it feel to be experiencing your first award season?
It’s very bizarre. It’s very exciting. I never would have thought that I’d be up for an award or anything like that but then you do all of these interviews and [the reporters] make you think that might. You start thinking, ‘Maybe I will get [nominated] for something.’ And then if I don’t, I’m going to feel like I failed everyone.
When you signed on to Moneyball, did you have any inkling that this role might be an opportunity for serious award buzz?
No, I just thought this was going to be a great movie.…
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