Jonah Hill on playing with guns at ’21 Jump Street’
NEW YORK – No one will ever mistake Jonah Hill for a macho action star.
But the portly comic actor gets to engage in more than his share of gunplay in his new action comedy “21 Jump Street.” Appearing opposite hunky, handsome Channing Tatum in the TV remake about youthful LAPD cops going undercover at a high school to bust drug dealers, Hill got to sling weapons on screen for the first time in his career.
But, as he told it during a press day hosted by Columbia Pictures, he wasn’t entirely comfortable handling all that firepower. On the other hand, Tatum (a veteran of “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” and other action fare) handles guns with aplomb.
“I’m pretty comfortable with weapons,” Tatum told reporters. “I’ve done a lot of work with them in films.” Then he laughed. “But this person next to me (Hill) has the worst gun safety that I’ve ever been around in my entire life.”
In his own defense, Hill explained, “I had a problem because there’s a guy on set whose job it is to give you a gun, right? It’s a real gun and it’s loaded with blanks. And I had not been around guns before. But I went with a cop and trained how to shoot guns. I’m actually a pretty good shot. And so this guy was responsible for giving me a gun, so my thing was like …”
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