The actor and filmmaker confronts his anxieties in Netflix’s Stutz, one of his most personal projects yet.
Hill laments at one point.
TheWolf of Wall Streetactor started seeing Stutz “out of desperation to get happier,” he reveals.
Jonah Hill in ‘Stutz’.Netflix
“I had no healthy self esteem,” Hill says.
“When I met you I was 33, maybe.
But “inherently, at my core, I’m still this unlovable person,” he says.
Jonah Hill and Phil Stutz in ‘Stutz’.Netflix
Hill had “no confidence as a human being,” he says.
“I just didn’t invest in myself and understand how to like myself.
I just worked to achieve this thing, which is your idea of the snapshot.”
Stutz defines the snapshot as a realm of illusion, wherein individuals seek out the perfect experience.
When success came, however, “it didn’t cure any of that stuff,” Hill says.
“It made me beyond depressed.
At the same time, the media kept being really brutal about my weight.
It was just kind of free game for anyone to sort of hit my sore spot.
I’d be so angry.
It kept me from feeling any sense of being able to grow past negative feelings about myself.”
The documentary tracks both Hill and Stutz’s mental health journeys.
And it doesn’t matter what people think about the movie.
It just matters that we finished it together.”
Stutzdebuts Nov. 14 on Netflix.
