Jonah Hill quit LA to raise his kids in a ‘very small’ San Diego town
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!
Jonah Hill has left Hollywood behind and isn’t looking back.
The “Outcome” actor admitted that he booked out of Los Angeles and moved to a “very small town in San Diego” to raise his family.
During a live taping of her recent “SmartLess” podcast, Hill, 42, revealed that the move to “America’s Finest City” happened about three years ago when she gave birth to her first child.
FORMER DISNEY STAR MAITLAND WARD SAYS YOUNG ACTORS ARE TREATED AS ‘PRODUCT’ AT THE HOLLYWOOD PLANT
Jonah Hill left Hollywood for a quieter life in San Diego with his family. (The StewartofNY)
“Very quickly, before we go any further, my wife is here. My best friend. Shout out to my beautiful wife, Liv. Where is she? Oh, what’s up, baby?” Hill said as he took the stage with hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett.
“I live in a very small town in San Diego, and it’s wonderful, and my neighbors are incredible people. We moved there three years ago when we had our first child.”
JONAH HILL WILL NO LONGER PROMOTE HIS MOVIES TO PREVENT PANIC ATTACKS, WORK ON MENTAL HEALTH
“I wanted to leave Los Angeles and start a family outside of Los Angeles,” he added.
Jonah Hill appeared at a live taping of the “Smartless” podcast in Los Angeles. (Rodin Eckenroth)
The “Superbad” star and his wife recently welcomed their second baby, People confirmed.
Despite finding his way out, Hill boasted about the benefits of growing up in the City of Angels.
“I grew up here,” he admitted. “Los Angeles was a great place to grow up in the ’90s because you could go skateboarding downtown, or sneak into a movie premiere, or sneak into a comedy club and see Chris Rock or something.”
DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
The Oscar nominee noted: “You had access to the show business stuff, but you had access to punk and skating and graffiti and all the naughty stuff. There was no internet either. It was just amazing.”
Jonah Hill rose to fame with the 2007 movie “Superbad.” (Michael Buckner)
In her early 20s, Hill appeared in cameos in the films “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Grandma’s Boy” and then rose to fame with the 2007 coming-of-age film “Superbad.”
“It was a long night for me,” Hill said previously. GQ Style about his early success.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER
“[Co-star] Michael Cera and I talk about this all the time. We just had a very rare experience: One day life was in one direction, the next day life was in a different direction. I got a job writing on ‘Brüno’ right after ‘Superbad’ [with Sacha Baron Cohen]”
Fame quickly caught up with the actor, who admitted at a young age that he had “too much power” and needed a break from Hollywood.
The actor was born and raised in Los Angeles. (Stephane Cardinale-Corbis)
“I was a child,” he said. “I probably had too much power, too much autonomy, and not enough life skills for a teenager. I dropped out of college and couldn’t understand why people go to college.”
CLICK TO DOWNLOAD FOX NEWS APPLICATION
“Because if you’re ambitious, why would you spend four years idling? And then I didn’t realize until I was 30 that what those four years gave all my friends was this shaky period of learning how to be a human being.”
