Christopher Mintz-Plasse Really Annoyed Jonah Hill During ‘Superbad’ Audition/Filming

The R-rated teen comedy “Superbad” helped launch multiple film careers and was a breakout feature for its screenwriting duo, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, entering the world of filmmaking which would lead to them directing their own films such as “This Is The End” and producing multiple popular television shows such as Amazon’s “The Boys.” Even the young cast ended up becoming well-known names themselves with Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Bill Hader, and future Oscar-winner Emma Stone (“La La Land”). It explores a small snapshot of the Vancouver high school years of Rogen/Goldberg, as three classmates try to get their hands on alcohol for a party. 

While the film produced by Judd Apatow and helmed by Greg Mottola was entertaining, an oral history from Vanity Fair, in honor of the comedy turning 15 years old, paints a much more tense situation when it comes to newcomer Christopher Mintz-Plasse’s original impact on cast members. Specifically “annoying” Hill. 

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Mintz-Plasse’s audition (See below) for the role of Fogell, aka, McLovin saw him improvising attacks on Hill’s character Seth and seemed to have too much confidence embodying “Dean Martin instead of Jerry Lewis,” as stated by Mottola. 

“Chris was really, really amazing off the bat. And I think he was really annoying to me at that time,” Hill admits.

Rogen added, “Jonah immediately hated him. He was like, ‘That was fucking with my rhythm. I couldn’t perform with that guy.’”

Hill himself was a question mark given his age compared to the other actors, he was 24 while others were still in their teens and the filmmakers wanted a much younger actor to play Seth, which is understandable. 

“Jonah was like, ‘I should play Seth. I should play Seth. I should play Seth.’ And we said no like, 100 times. ‘You are too old looking’” And he said, ‘No, you’re too old looking. I’m not! I can do this with makeup and hair,” Rogen recalled of the casting of Hill. Ultimately, Hill convinced them and pulled it off. 

He eventually got into the groove with Mintz-Plasse who doesn’t actually have a lot of scenes with Hill and Cera. Most of the time the McLovin character spent with cops played by Hader and Rogen after the robbery scene which sounds like it was for the best.