Do we like Jonah Hill?
Our score: 6 out of 10. A clean enough record on harm, held back by unresolved allegations and little proof of kindness found.
Born in Los Angeles in 1983, Hill grew up with a dad who was a Guns N' Roses tour accountant and a mum who worked as a stylist and costume designer. He studied drama at The New School in New York, debuted in I Heart Huckabees in 2004, then blew up with Superbad in 2007. Two Oscar nominations followed, for Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street, and in 2018 he stepped behind the camera for Mid90s.
His one big public face-plant on the harm side was in 2014. TMZ footage showed him snapping at a photographer who had been taunting him in Los Angeles, and he used a homophobic slur. He apologised on Howard Stern's show and said “I used a word that I don't use in my personal life.” Twelve years on, it reads as a real stain and not a pattern, and he owned it quickly.
On the harm test, searches for anything he has said or done against LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants or the planet came up empty beyond that 2014 slur. The 2026 Kanye West comments are the one to weigh. Hill told Zane Lowe he still loves Ye, hopes everyone can heal, and called him “probably the greatest artist ever to live”, while saying the hate stuff sucks. Where you land depends on whether you read that as grace for a friend or as going too easy on antisemitism.
The recent news is more showbiz than scandal. Warner Bros. pulled his Kristen Wiig comedy Cut Off from its July 17 date. Puck's Matthew Belloni reported it was considered unreleasable, and a studio spokesperson told TheWrap that speculation was inaccurate. A rep for Hill said the film was still in post-production, so a new date is still to come.
The good-stuff file is honestly thin from what we could verify: no big charity record turned up in the sources we could open. Add the unresolved allegations, one denied by his lawyer and the other met by no public reply in the coverage we read, and he lands in the middle. Funny, successful and nothing nasty in his words, but not a name we can wave through without a shrug.