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 The Stars of Superbad
Interview By: Michael Dance Not that these guys don't have experience - well, the first two, at least. Jonah Hill didn't appear on screen until 2004's I Heart Huckabees but has since then stolen scenes in bit parts of a dozen-odd comedies such as Grandma's Boy, Ten Items or Less, and Click. He graduated to full-fledged supporting roles in the movies Accepted and this summer's Knocked Up, and it's thanks to that movie's director, Judd Apatow, that Hill took the starring role in Superbad, which Apatow produces. Cera, meanwhile, has been bouncing around Hollywood for a while, playing the kid versions of Vincent D'Onofrio in Steal This Movie, Noah Emmerich in Frequency, and Sam Rockwell in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. He managed to jump out of the child actor circuit - and prove what a finely-tuned comedian of all things awkward he is - by landing a role in the beloved cult TV series Arrested Development. Superbad marks his first big movie since Arrested's cancellation in 2006. And Mintz-Plasse, who in the movie plays Fogel, the third wheel of the trio? He's a complete newcomer, although you'll hardly know it when you watch the film. Currently, Superbad's riding on a wave of positive publicity, the likes of which haven't been seen since...well, since Knocked Up, this summer's other comedy that lacked starpower but drew audiences to the seats by, quite simply, being really, really funny. The early word from numerous sources (and having seen the film, I completely concur) is that Superbad is at least as good. The similarities don't stop, though. Seth Rogen, the star of Knocked Up, and his friend Evan Goldberg started writing the script back when they were in high school, and named the characters after themselves. "Fortunately Seth has aged poorly and I've aged wonderfully," Hill says, noting that while Rogen couldn't play his cinematic alter ego because he was too old, Hill is only a year younger. "I wasn't thought of originally for a long time, because we're all such good friends and it would be weird to consider me younger and not them." Mintz-Plasse, meanwhile, is exactly the right age - he was seventeen when the movie was filmed. "I didn't even know it was an Apatow movie when I went in to audition for it," he says. "When I went in to the audition I recognized Seth from The 40-Year |
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