Can you talk about your future projects, The Middle Child, etc.?

Jonah Hill: Well, first of all, I would be doing a disservice if I didn’t mention the movie Superbad which comes out in August which Seth wrote and I’m in and Seth is in and Martin is in. And Michael Serra from Arrested Development, Bill Hader from Saturday Night Live.

Jay Baruchel: I could’ve been in it.

Jonah Hill: Jay could have been but we didn’t want him to outshine any of us. So I just wanted to mention that. And The Middle Child is a movie I’m writing for Universal and Judd that is awesome. It’s about a guy who comes home from school and finds out that he had a brother put up for adoption three years before he was born and basically he returns, who would be Seth basically, and basically is the version of him that everyone’s always wanted. A way more- -

Jay Baruchel: Just a cooler version of you.

Jonah Hill: Basically a better version of me arrived in my life and my family and friends and everyone really enjoy his company more than mine. I basically start going through middle child syndrome in my early ‘20s. It’s hilarious as you can tell. But yeah, Seth would play my long lost brother.

Jay Baruchel: And then I guess Tropic Thunder is a big ass movie. It’s going to shoot for four months. It’s like Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Cruise, Mos Def and Owen Wilson and me. It’s about the filming of a Vietnam movie that goes horribly awry so each of us is playing actors who are playing characters in the movie. My guy is the only actor that auditioned for the movie and the only actor that went through boot camp. I’m supposed to be the wet behind the ears rookie so that when shit hits the fan, I’m the only one that knows how to read a map and fire a gun and all that stuff. I get to shoot a 50 cal off the back of a moving jeep and all sorts of cool stuff like that. Steve Coogan’s in it who’s one of my idols. It’s just I’ve never gone and done one thing for four months straight before. It’s going to be crazy.

Your characters have the same names as you, is the implication that they’re not too far from yourselves?

Jonah Hill: I think it was a joke. It was like a joke I’d say, originally.

Martin Starr: It’s just easier because we’re all friends for so long before that it’s easier just to call us by our names so you don’t get- -

Jay Baruchel: And it’s also just funny, like when does that happen?

Jonah Hill: It was a joke. Also like Judd wrote it, he likes to write I think for actors and I think he wrote it with all of us in mind so the names in the script were always our names. And I think they were intending on like- - I think a week before we started shooting, we were rehearsing in Santa Monica and someone was like, “So, uh, we just keeping the names like our names?” And they were like, “Yeah, it’s kind of funny. All right, we’ll just keep it like that.” I think it’s actually funny but until the movie comes out, it will be a little bit odd.

Jay Baruchel: It’s a weird joke.

Jonah Hill: They’ll think that we’re playing ourselves which I think- -

Jay Baruchel: Yeah, I don’t believe half the—

Jonah Hill: I’m definitely not exactly like my character in the movie or anything.

Jay Baruchel: I don’t believe half the horrible, weird ethereal kind of Christian religious stuff that I spout in that movie.

How much time do you actually spend with each other off set?

Jay Baruchel: Well, I go back to Canada so I always remove myself from the picture.

Jonah Hill: Exactly. Jay’s in Montreal but we all miss him. It actually is awesome. Today I hadn’t seen him in a couple months.

Jay Baruchel: It’d been a while.

Jonah Hill: He’s a good buddy of mine so it was awesome to see him, but I see Martin and Seth.

Jay Baruchel: At Evan’s house last time I was here, we had a party at Evan’s.

Jonah Hill: And Seth and I made that movie Superbad right after Knocked Up so I see Seth probably two or three times a week and Martin probably once a week or once every other week maybe.

Martin Starr: Yeah, every now and again. We’re all on good terms.

Jonah Hill: We’re all friends.

Jonah, after Superbad will you become a big star diva and only do your own movies?

Jonah Hill: I go by the theory of- - it was weird because I was really nervous to star in a movie and luckily Seth went through it right before me. Literally right before I did it and I was just nervous and had him to talk to about it. I go by whatever part is the best. I don't think, I think Jack Black is really good at that. A lot of people are good at if it’s a really cool movie, why not play a smaller part? I’m writing two movies right now and I happen to be the lead in those movies but if there was a cool movie where someone wanted me to do two scenes and it was a really awesome part and I thought I could do a good job, I would totally do that. I go by whatever seems like the best thing. I don’t really think like that ever. Hopefully, anyone will let me be in a movie ever again. I just think it’s great.

Jay Baruchel: Making movies is the best job in the world so as long as you’re in good ones, who cares?

Jonah Hill: Yeah, whatever the part is, if I loved it, then I would do that.

Jay, can you talk about Fanboys and are you going to the Star Wars Celebration?

Jay Baruchel: I am. I will be there next week for Celebration. We show some scenes and do a bit of a Q&A. Fanboys, it just feels like so long ago that I filmed that movie. I love it. I really, really, really find it funny. It’s a perfect Thursday afternoon, you get off work early and you’ve got nothing to do, watch Fanboys. It’s just really, really funny. If you’re any semblance of a movie nerd, it’s not just for Star Wars fans is the main thing. I made damn sure, because I’m not really a Star Wars fan, I just got every kind of Highlander and Freejack reference in there that I could. There’s a lot, I think I even got a Buckaroo Bonzai. If you like movies as much as I do, you’ll like it. It’s really ridiculous. Seth Rogan played three different characters in it, very prosthetic makeup-y kind of crazy characters. He plays a pimp with a Jar Jar Binks tattoo on him. Then he plays- - maybe I should have kept that one- - he plays the leader of the Trekkies, Admiral C. Schultz and he’s got his horrible buck teeth. Then he plays just a guy in Star Trek makeup. The funny thing is, so Star Wars gave us their blessing so all the Star Wars stuff is real and we have the references and it’s all real Star Wars stuff but Star Trek and Viacom would have nothing to do with us. So all of it is quite clearly supposed to be Star Trek buy maybe instead of a triangle, it’s a triangle with one more spike coming out of it and the aliens are just like- - anyway, it’s ridiculous. It’s really, really, really ridiculous. There’s a statue of Kirk fighting Kahn and they’ve both got huge erections. It’s that kind of movie.