it was jonah hill s dream job. acting in a martin scorsese film. playing donnie azoff. a crack smoking, sadistic side kick to leonardo dicaprio s jordan belfort. for hill, a different part and a very different appearance. did you know then you were going to have to wear the teeth? yes, yes. we had talked about what his look would look like. and, you know, my thing was i kind of wanted donnie to look like a lit match. his hair s, like, wild and crazy and blond and orange. and he s just kind of like a stick of dynamite. $22 million in three [ bleep ] hours! bad dynamite. did you sleep in the teeth? i didn t sleep with them in.
talk on the phone for an hour and a half to two hours every day with them in order to get rid of the lisp. since no one in my personal life would obviously indulge me in doing that with me, i would call different businesses. so i would call, like, best buys. and targets. i couldn t go in somewhere and be donnie. if someone recognized me it would be really embarrassing. so i would call best buy, especially this one in hawaii. and their customer service was amazing. and i would speak on the phone to them as donnie for, like, an hour and a half, two hours every day. yeah, yeah, yeah. make a lot of money. when you first meet him, it s fantastic. how much money you going to make? i don t know. 70,000 last month. that was the scene i auditioned with. that was it? yeah. that was my big scene. donnie s big intro scene between the audition and the actual film, i had been rehearsing the scene for six months. for hill, the pressure of
it was jonah hill s dream job. acting in a martin scorsese film. playing donnie azoff. a crack smoking, sadistic side kick to leonardo dicaprio s jordan belfort. for hill, a different part and a very different appearance. did you know then you were going to have to wear the teeth? yes, yes. we had talked about what his look would look like. and, you know, my thing was i kind of wanted donnie to look like a lit match. his hair s, like, wild and crazy and blond and orange. and he s just kind of like a stick of dynamite. $22 million in three [ bleep ] hours! bad dynamite. did you sleep in the teeth? i didn t sleep with them in. but i had such a horrible lisp when i put them in that i had to
it was jonah hill s dream job. acting in a marten scorsese film. playing donnie azoff, the crack smoking, sadistic sidekick to leonardo dicaprio s jordan belfour. you re all right. for hill, a different kind of part. and a very different appearance. did you know then that you were going to have to wear the teeth? yes, yes. we had talked about what his look would look like. you know, he wanted donnie to look like a lit match. his hair is wild and crazy, he s just like a stick of dynamite. $22 million in three [ bleep ] days! did you sleep in the teeth?
it was jonah hill s dream job. acting in a martin scorsese film. playing donnie azoff, the crack smoking, sadistic sidekick to leonardo dicaprio s jordan belfour. you re all right. for hill, a different kind of part. and a very different appearance. did you know then that you were going to have to wear the teeth? yes, yes. we had talked about what his look would look like. you know, he wanted donnie to look like a lit match. his hair is wild and crazy, he s just like a stick of dynamite. $22 million in three [ bleep ] days! did you sleep in the teeth? i didn t sleep with them in, but i had such a horrible lisp