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If this whole acting thing doesn’t work out forJonah Hill, he can always start a second career as a shutterbug!
The two-time Oscar nominee, 35, gave his 1.3 million followers on Instagram a peek at one of his longtime hobbies on Tuesday: photography.
“I love photography,” Hill wrote. “I’ve been doing it for years privately and am starting to work professionally.”
“I have decided to start sharing some photos with you all,” he added. “Hope you enjoy, if not, that’s cool too.”
A series of black and white photographs followed, includinga picture of Q-Tip giving the middle fingershot in New York City in 35mm black and white film back in 2018.
Other pics included shots of 2 Chainz, Paul Schrader, Lucas Hedges, Michael Cera, andKim KardashianWest holding a bag of Skittles — the later shot while the two were atKanye West’s album release party last spring in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
In addition to photography, Hill recently made his directorial debutMid90s,about a 13-year-old boy trying to fit in.
The project allowed Hill, who started in showbiz when he was young, to reflect on thepublic criticism about his bodyhe received early on. As he worked on the movie, Hill put together a magazine calledInner Children, in which he wrote about hisbody image issuesthroughout the years.
“I became famous in my late teens and then spent most of my young adult life listening to people say that I was fat and gross and unattractive. And it’s only in the last four years writing and directing my movie,Mid90s,that I’ve started to understand how much that hurt and got into my head,” he read from the magazineonThe Ellen DeGeneres Showin October.
Hill wrote inInner Childrenthat he thinks this is a universal experience.
Exploring those issues in the magazine while working onMid90shelped Hill to work through his emotions.
“What I found amazing about [the magazine] is it was really a companion piece to writing and directingMid90sbecause, to me, this movie is about learning to love yourself and finding a community of people that accepts you and how imperfect life is,” he said. “It took a long time, honestly until right now, for me to come out as sort of the person, the artist, mind, what I represent, how I feel, how I’d like to be spoken to, how I speak to the world in a way that actually represents who I am as a person as opposed to me trying to be something else that I’m not.”
source: people.com
