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Jonah Hill would try drugs for film role

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Press Trust of India Los Angeles
Actor Jonah Hill says he isn't opposed to trying drugs for film roles.

The 29-year-old actor is earning rave reviews for his role as Donnie Azoff in new period crime caper 'The Wolf of Wall Street' and said he genuinely would have sampled a substance which his character uses in the movie, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

"I tried as hard as I could to find a quaalude, and I could not find any. I mean, I'm not, like, a drug person, but I genuinely would've tried one to see," Hill said.

Instead, the actor was provided a drug expert on set and also relied on the expertise of his director, Martin Scorsese, 71, who had first-hand experience with the drug.
 

Hill said he was awestruck when he first began work on the film because he is such a huge fan of both Scorsese and his co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.

"The first rehearsals were just the three of us. For me, obviously, it was intimidating - this is my favourite director and my favourite actor, and now I was working with them. You have to check that at the door at some point," he said.

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First Published: Dec 06 2013 | 10:10 AM IST

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