Jonah Hill Interview With Empire (The Wolf Of Wall Street)

This interview is between Phil de Semlyen of Empire Magazine and Jonah Hill talking about his latest  film "The Wolf Of Wall Street" among other things in his previous roles, the interview and Jonah Hill have a laugh and use a lot of comedy between them two by joking around and not taking a topic into a serious areas expect right at the end when they talk a small portion on drugs in the film and how he got into that frame of mind as Jonah Hill's character Donnie Azoff is addicted to a number of different drugs.


The interviewer mainly surrounds the interview around the movie 'The Wolf of Wall Street" but also when he turns into joking around with Jonah by mentioning a prop in the film and then goes on to ask about what other things (props) Jonah Hill keeps, he then does stay on the subject of the film by making him feel comfortable by giving him a number of compliments about Jonah Hill's acting in the film and asks him how he felt working along side the people mainly focusing around Leonardo DiCaprio and a number of crazy scenes they both do together. This is a good way the interviewer is mainly surrounding on how good the film is and what is in the film while joking around and making Jonah Hill feel comfortable so he shares as much as possible so the target audience get's to know a bit behind the scenes and about the film that might get them to either read/watch more Empire interviews and to also see the film.

While the interview is very jokey like the film itself the interviewer knows that there are serious things in this film and spends the last part of the interview to shortly explore with Jonah them asking about how he acted being a crazy drug addict who works in Wall Street and how he was able to show he was under all those drugs and they talk a bit about Jonah seeing a drug councillor to talk about the serious effects of the drugs and how his character would be acting while under these drugs and even thou these scenes are very funny one of the funniest moments of the film even the interviewer says this, he explores and mentions that it is a very serious topic.

You can see throughout the interview the interviewer keeps Jonah Hill very happy by keeping either a smile on his face or keep him laughing, this I feel is a good interview technique and works in this certain subject as the film is very jokey and crazy, while if the interviewer was interviewing him or someone else for another subject that is more serious you would want them to feel happy and comfortable but you wouldn't be making jokes and trying to make them laugh as it would not work as it wouldn't be considerate to the subject matter at hand while this interview is done perfectly by the interviewer having lots of humour with his interviewee but also mentioning that there is a serious topic and this is it and how did you do it which I feel is a great way of controlling a interview like this.