Interview with Johan Hill and Channing Tatum
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill talked in an interview about working together in the comedy thriller "21 Jump Street," in which they, as police officers enter the school under the guise of high school students to expose a gang of drug traffickers based in the school.
- What were you in high school?
Jonah Hill: I have bleached hair. I always wanted to look like Eminem!
Channing Tatum: I played football and wore a sports jacket, and waited when I finish school. On the day of school graduation I was so happy that couldn’t find the place. Not that everything was so bad, just school was not that place that I liked.
- What would you change if you could go back to school now?
Jonah Hill: I would organize a drama group. Perhaps I would find like-minded people, and although all of my present friends - school, while I'm embarrassed that they will laugh at me if I'll make theater. And probably I would have met a really good girl because she would have liked that I'm so sensitive.
Channing Tatum: I think I would have done some things differently, but only on condition that all turned out to exactly how it happened. I am satisfied with the current state of affairs. And really regret not having listened to what I was told in school. I always sat in the head by one thought: "I do not understand why I do this or that. I do not know how I will use this knowledge in my future life."
- Anything from what you learned about today's school life, shocked you?
Jonah Hill: I think I'll like the 150-year old man, but it's - technical literacy of young people. They live through Facebook and the like, and I do not use these things. I prefer to talk.
- How much time had you need both to get on the site?
Channing Tatum: I would say that we agreed immediately. John - very funny, funny guy, and I really enjoyed talking with him. If we were friends at school, we certainly would bulling nights on the phone, and then be late for the first lesson, because slept it (laughs).
Jonah Hill: We are asking all the time, we were friends at school, because our screen heroes do not play well. I think we would have been best friends. We are from different places, but have a very similar perception of the laws of friendship. I rarely like to talk with someone so closely as to this guy. We are constantly hangover together. Last night I caught myself thinking: "I missed Channing. We have not seen for several hours." We live in the same hotel, and I wanted to know what he was doing at the moment!
- How does the school, "title" you would have awarded each other?
Jonah Hill: I think "best athlete" or anything else related to sports.
Channing Tatum: Do you know how to be "The best around"? Ask John.
- John, how did nomination for the award "Oscar" for the film "Moneyball" affect your career?
Jonah Hill: I finally got the glory of my family! I noticed that I began to offer roles in different genres, not just in the comedy. And I have this insanely rad. I'm really looking forward to when we start working on the project of Brad Pitt "True Story", in which we, with James Franco will play the main roles. And I plan to play in a movie with all my old school pals - Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, and Danny McBride and Craig Robinson, James Franco and over again. It's called "Apocalypse."
- What do you both enjoy doing on weekends?
Channing Tatum: I love to sleep. On Sundays I generally do not do anything but just sit and play with my dog. Our house has a small patio, so we're sitting, lying, sleep there.
Jonah Hill: Watch movies, lying in bed - that's my dream!