Becoming famous was no walk in the park for Jonah Hill. The 37-year-old actor recently opened up to GQ, revealing that he feels reaching overnight fame” in his twenties may have stunted his personal development.
He told the magazine, “It was very overnight for me. Michael Cera and I talk about it all the time. We just had this really rare experience: One day life was one way, and then one day life was a different way,”
Hill starred in Superbad alongside Michael Cera back in 2007. He was only 23 at the time, and the success of the movie helped spark Hill’s career.
In his GQ interview, Hill even said that he thinks he was too young to have so much influence at that time of his life.
"I was a kid. I had probably too much power for a young person, and too much autonomy, and not enough life skills," Hill told the publication. "I dropped out of college, and I used to not get why people would go to college. Because if you’re ambitious, why would you spend four years just idling?
"And then I didn’t realize until I turned 30 that what those four years gave all my friends was this wobbling period of how to be a person. I was really advanced professionally but really behind personally. All my 20s, I wasn’t really looking inward. I was just running toward success. Or trying to find success."
The actor also said that now in his 30s, he has learned how to balance his fame with his personal life. Plus, he said that he credits therapy to helping him learn to have a fulfilling life.
