‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ was, without a doubt, one of the most powerful films of the first part of the 2010s. The film that tells the adventures of Jordan Belfort, a character for whom Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for an Oscar, he also had actor Jonah Hill, who played Donnie Azoff, among his cast.
Azoff was a furniture salesman who joins Azoff’s company. His extravagant personality and drug addiction make him one of the most important characters in the plot, because little by little It is growing further up the social ladder. In fact, he was nominated for an Oscar for ‘Best Supporting Actor’.
In ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Jonah weighed 127 kilos, an ideal weight to contribute to the image that They wanted to get rid of an excessive, vulgar and uncontrolled character. A man who lived without limits. In few interviewsHill confessed that this physical state led to some episodes of depression and that he suffered bullying during part of his life.
Therefore, after an acceptance process, the actor placed himself in the hands of nutrition and training professionals. In fact, in his latest appearances he seems like a totally different person, since he has a much thinner body, although equally valid.
He worked for the minimum
A curiosity about Hill’s professional career is that the actor, when he was offered the role of Azoff in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, agreed to work in the film for the minimum salary: $60,000. An amount considerably less than the usual Hollywood emoluments.
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“I want to sign the papers before I go to sleep tonight so they can’t legally change their mind.”“, he said in an interview in which he revealed that his decision was immediate when he knew that he was going to work for Martin Scorsese. He even confessed that he would have paid money to do so. “I would sell my house and give him all my money to work for him. “I would have done anything in the world.”
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