the richest and the most powerful and have the best of everything. in jordan and in donny, that was 100% of who they were. jordan, do you know how good it is to have you back in this office? it s not the same when you re gone. like him or not, it s the role that won hill a second oscar nomination. a role that could have been totally out of his reach. hill built his career in comedies. it all started as a teenager with too much time on his hands. i started making these prank phone call cds for people, you know, just friends of mine. and they were fun and ridiculous and i was about 17 or 18. i m friends with the hoffman family and their kids went to the same school as me. dustin was like, you know, you should be an actor. he heard me do some of these prank phone calls. i just took it as a nice compliment. i never expected anything. one day he called me and said come to this house. i want you to come to this house. so i go. in the house is david o russell
i love three things. i love my country, i love jesus christ and i love making people rich. hello? meet donny azof. from wolf of wall street. cold-blooded. don t forget about my money. calculated. listen, i quit. corrupt. we don t work for you, man. you have my money taped to your boobs. technically you do work for me. he s a man jonah hill actively dislikes. donny has no impulse control. no morality. and completely values the wrong things. what made you think that you could do donny? because you re not like him. no, i m not like him. but unfortunately, you know, you meet people in life or you have people in life that they don t possess a lot of the qualities that you would hope they would. there s a small part of every person that wants more. that wants everything. that wants to be the best and
a young slave brutalized by a sadistic master. i ain t got no she didn t have the luxury of sentimentalizing her pain. and so neither could i in playing her. we don t work for you, man. technically you do work for me. a ruthless soul sucking wall street broker. donny has no impulse control. no morality. and completely values the wrong things. indescribably complex roles that have stretched these four actors to their limits. and won them nominations for hollywood s biggest prize. the oscar. tonight, vanity fair s krista smith sits down with four of hollywood s hottest actors in cnn spotlight: and the nominees are.
standing in martin scorsese s new york office, sweating. and i m like, oh, i must be really nervous, you know. and i go in the bathroom and i wash my face. i m like, get it together. you know, this is like your one chance. don t blow this. i go back in. i immediately start sweating, like, really badly again. i m like, i m sorry, guys. i don t want to be in any way demanding in any way, but is it really hot in here? and scorsese was like, yeah, no, it s so hot. the air conditioner is busted. let s go in my office. we went in his office where it w was, like, way cooler and more relaxed. we talked for about an hour and a half about donny. then the read the scenes. i said, you know, i did the best i could. i prepared for months. and i told my family and friends i was even up for a martin scorsese film because i figured i wasn t going to get it. hill waited a month and a half with no word. then he got a phone call. my phone rang. it was leo. he s like, you got the part. i ran around t