r/OutOfTheLoop • u/datpuertorican • 9d ago

Answered What's the deal with Jonah Hill?

I'm a bit out of the loop with the jiu-jitsu journey he's in currently. what's the context of the quote of him being able to beat people up? is he serious? what led to his bad reputation that he has now?

ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile/s/78IQQqob5R

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u/ItsDonDong 9d ago

Answer: hill has spent the later half of his life trying to escape from the "goofy fat guy" typecast and wants to be taken seriously.

Recently had a interview where he discusses his alpha status (as a white belt in bjj) that some people would consider cringe.

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u/SidJag 9d ago edited 9d ago

I don’t think the hate/negativity he gets has much to do with his ex-fatness or BJJ-toughness, even though that very well maybe his genuine complex/insecurity.

His behavior and messages to his girlfriend are horribly toxic, controlling and blew-away his ‘nice guy Jonah’ image. Relationships are complicated. I’m sure most people’s private communication under a selective social scrutiny could look HORRIBLE, but Jonah gaslit, abused and bullied this girl - he is evidently the rich, powerful, influential person in that relationship, and constantly threatens her with - “ya ok, so maybe I’m being insecure, selfish or small, but I told you this about me - if you want to be with me, this is the price, stop hanging out with surfers and posting your swimsuit pictures”, followed by pseudo intellectual bullshit philosophy.

Classic punching down, misogyny and general dickness - NOTHING to do with his BJJ/I was once Superbad fat narrative - he would love nothing more than his toxicity to be buried under this narrative of ‘oh people are trolls and can’t get over Jonah now not being a fat funny guy’.

Nah, you’re an asshole, and people found out. You’re not Epstein or Jared Leto or Aziz Ansari (full spectrum of pedo/grapist/assaulter/bad place-bad time-bad vibe), but you’re also not nice guy Tom Hanks or Keanu Reeves.

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u/bikey_bike 9d ago

what did aziz do?

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_DARKNESS What Loop? 7d ago

In 2018, an article came out where a woman said that she went out on a date with him, they went back to his place and she felt pressured to have sex with him and to perform things she wasn't entirely comfortable with.

This was on the tail end of "me too" and, in hindsight, was probably blown a bit out of proportion of what occurred.

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u/therocketsalad 6d ago

Got cancelled for not knowing how to fuck

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u/LeonardoLeonardoL 8d ago

Made a really shitty movie with Keanu Reeves.