Hill:It's been such a magical experience showing this film, because it is my heart it is my heart and my soul. On the way the teenage boys talk in the movie, which is often offensive It really was an ethic and aesthetic for me that I carry with me to this day. One of the things I loved about it was the non-judgmentalness, in certain ways, of skateboarders.Īnd I think that created a lens that I saw life through, whether it was sense of humor, musical taste, cinema taste. But when I started skateboarding, it was not cool, and society really looked down on you as a nuisance. You know, skateboarding now is such a - it's going to be an Olympic sport for God's sakes it's so mainstream. And there's a certain person that skateboarding draws.
I've had it many various ways, whether it was skateboarding, film - but I definitely felt like an outsider, I definitely felt like I didn't belong. On if Hill ever saw his own skateboarding friends as a family "It's sort of a idiosyncratic, perverse closeness, layered with a lot of toxic masculinity and on-the-surface cruelty, but such a deep connection and family situation." "It's the kind of closeness you can see from 10,000 miles away," Hill says. Stevie sees this group of kids hanging out in front of this skate shop and he feels instantly close to their tribe. He's lonely and looking for some kind of connection. Things are bad for him at home his brother beats him up. but none of them had ever set foot in a recording booth and interviewed anybody, you know what I mean? So it's like any really proud subculture."Īt the center of the story is a 13-year-old named Stevie. Imagine if there was like 10 movies about NPR hosts. It's butchered, you know, it's misunderstood.
"Skateboarding is the most protective, insular community, which is why it's so difficult to make a film involving it. Superbad's going to make a skateboarding movie?' You know, like, 'Thumbs down.' And so skateboarding is really sensitive. "Skateboarding is always shown as, like, 'Cowabunga, dude!'" he says in an interview. Many of the teenagers he cast were first-time actors. A24 Jonah Hill (right) talks through a scene with Lucas Hedges (left) and Sunny Suljic.
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