00:00Hello GQ, my name is Jonah Hill and these are my essentials.
00:05My first essential Celsius Kiwi Guava sparkling energy drink. I might just be like the biggest
00:20mark for marketing of all time, but it's like a health food Red Bull. So there's like vitamins
00:26and they sell it like health food stores. But I think it's just like really well marketed
00:32drink with a ton of caffeine in it. And everyone thinks I own it because whenever you work with me,
00:38I like get people hooked on Celsius. My greatest achievement was this movie I did, Don't Look Up.
00:44By the end of the movie, Leo, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep and Mark Rylance were all hooked on
00:51Celsius. So if y'all want to send me a bunch of I don't own the company or anything
00:56like that, I just am a fan. I need this to like wake up and do my job. I don't even drink coffee
01:01anymore. I call it director juice. It's great. My next essential is my little Jonah directing starter
01:12pack. So everywhere I go on set, I have my Celsius. I have my turquoise American spirits, which is not
01:22a good one that I'm trying to like recommend to people. I should quit as I'm 37 years old,
01:27but I haven't as of yet. And I'm just keeping it real with you guys. Have you tried switching
01:32to vape? Kind of. I call them mouth fedoras. Has Leo heard you say mouth fedoras? Yes. I don't
01:39diss what anyone does to find personal fulfillment. So if you vape, respect. But like, I think of vapes as
01:47mouth fedoras. The hydro flask is I don't drink enough water. So I carry this with me and I try
01:55and drink like two of them a day, but I kind of suck at it. So it's mostly just like a reminder of how
01:59much I suck. I love putting stickers on things. This is strong baby, which is my production company.
02:06And I love all the peeps that work there. So shout out to the strong baby productions crew.
02:10And then I always wear this bucket hat when I'm directing. I love it. And then the most important part is
02:16music. So like one of the things people don't do on sets is they don't create like a vibe.
02:22And so I was like, well, when I direct and I, if I ever get to direct movies,
02:25I'm asking these people to give like the hours of their life to being here. And I want them to be
02:31like, I had fun. I am always playing music out of this. This is the main event. It's a bang and Olufsen
02:40thing, but it has the strap. You can be walking anywhere, even like hanging with the actors or talking to the
02:46crew. And you can bring the vibe with you everywhere you go. Another thing is smell.
02:51Like it really smells bad. Most places you're shooting. So I really like this incense. So I
02:57like to bring, it's called, I don't know how to pronounce the company, Astia de Vellate.
03:06I ain't fancy. So I don't know how to pronounce it, but I know how to smell it. It's good. It like,
03:11if there's music and it smells good and you're kind of laughing and dancing and like kind of
03:15having fun, even if you're making a serious ass movie. I don't think people know this unless you
03:21make movies. Like it's straight up porta potties everywhere at your job all the time. When I say
03:27it smells like shit, like it actually smells like shit at work. After like 15 years, I was like,
03:33maybe it'd be cool if it didn't smell like shit every day.
03:40My next one is this. So this is a ring I wear every day and it's a strong baby ring.
03:45So my older sister, Dana, she has a company called The 10 Jewelry, at T-H-E-1-0 Jewelry.
03:53Follow them on Instagram. Family business. And she's so ill. She can make you anything. So I just was like,
03:59I want to make a strong baby ring. And I kind of sent her the drawing and this is what she came
04:03up with. And she's so sick and I wear it all the time. Love her. Love, love at the 10 Jewelry.
04:10I don't make any money off it, by the way.
04:16Next essential item is stickers. I always have stickers with me. I love stickers.
04:20I like to make stickers for things that are even like inside jokes. This is a strong baby sticker,
04:25which is like our company, obviously. And then Surf Juice California is an inside joke.
04:31My friends who got me into surfing were Spike Jones and Mike Diamond from Beastie Boys.
04:36But when I started doing research on surf culture in Malibu, there was a big surf Nazi culture.
04:43It's almost like irony poisoning, you know, kind of like 80s surf culture, but like basically all
04:49their dads fought in World War II against the Nazis. So they were being punk and like,
04:54fuck our parents. So we're going to be surf Nazis. But then of course, irony like seeps into,
05:00there's a great New York Times article that will explain it a lot better than me.
05:03But I was obviously like, fuck, like all this classic Malibu surf imagery has like swastikas on it,
05:08which is so gnarly and fucked up. So I was like, yo, we should start surf Jews. So there's all this
05:14imagery of like opposite of a swastika, essentially. It's really fun and funny and silly and not meant
05:21to be serious in the slightest. So I'm sure I'll get canceled for being or having a Jewish star
05:25or a yin yang or something. But like, I don't know. It's all just to have a good time.
05:34My next essential item. So this is my wetsuit for the summer because it's, it's got the arms cut off,
05:41which is great. Tank top style. My friends say I look like it, like an old timey boxer. And this
05:46is Axe, A-X-X-E. This is a Japanese company and they're so sick. They make my favorite wetsuits.
05:52I don't know how deep you want to go into this, but like,
05:58This is my next essential item. Mr. Zog's coconut sex wax. It's awesome. It smells really good.
06:06I love the way it smells. Green's my favorite color. So I gravitate towards green things.
06:11It's pretty iconic. And then it's also good and smells good, which is like, I like smell.
06:22Hydrating argan oil mask. This is a good cutty move for you guys at home. Anyone who like bleaches
06:29their hair, fucks with their hair a lot. I bleach my hair a lot and I'm in the ocean a lot. So it
06:35gets all like Doc Brown, like frizzy, you know, like Christopher Lord in Back to the Future. So
06:41you'd start in after you surf or take a shower and then you leave it in and you're good to go.
06:46That smells good. And it leaves you feeling like silky smooth, you know?
06:50Can you like mime how you would apply it?
06:53No, dude. I'm not doing that.
06:55You do it.
07:03Okay. Now we're getting into serious stuff. Jiu Jitsu. My man shooting this is a purple belt.
07:10So we got to give him some love over there. This is one of my favorite geese. Shout out to Bear
07:14from Show Your Roll. Show Your Roll's the shit. I hit a point in my life in my like early mid thirties,
07:20where I was like, if I don't start like developing hobbies and shit, I'm going to be one of those
07:25people that only likes to work and I can fall into the workaholic category. So I was like,
07:29wouldn't it be cool if the things I chose were things I was really scared of my whole life?
07:34So the first one was Jiu Jitsu. Josh at Clockwork, who's an amazing guy. And then also Kenny Florian,
07:39who's an amazing guy. I was lucky enough to train with such great people. Got me over that fear. And then
07:44that led to me breaking my fear of surfing. I think the hardest thing in the world to do is to be
07:48present for me. And the two things I like to do, if you are not present, you will literally get
07:54fucked up. So like it forces me to be present, both things in Jiu Jitsu. Definitely. You will
07:59literally get choked out if you're thinking about like some shit you did two years ago that you're
08:03bummed about. You know, I learned early on, if I roll in a class, everyone wants the story of,
08:10I choked out Jonah Hill. I had to learn fast. Like it's a story to basically beat the shit out of me.
08:16So I was like, I'm also going to pull up in a peach gi. So like, you know, I'm just whatever,
08:21dude, I'm not trying to be like a tough guy. I just am out here having fun. And most of the time,
08:27I got to say culturally people have been really, really fucking cool.
08:34My last essential is my surfboard. This is what I'm currently riding. Shout out to 88 surfboards.
08:40I like riding foamies. I'm only two years into surfing. Whenever I ride a foamy, I go for more
08:46waves. I feel more like if I fuck up or if something bad happens, I'm not going to hurt anyone or hurt
08:52myself. What I love about 88 is you should watch their videos. Their whole ethic is having fun.
08:56They're like serious Aussie surfers that grew up in all the harshness of surf culture. They can rip on
09:02anything, but they're like, we just want to have fun and ride foamies. And I just like,
09:08fucking life is so serious. Like, I just want to try and have a good time and smile.
09:13So this is my board. Mike D named it Ron Burgundy. So this is Ron Burgundy.
09:21Thanks GQ. Thanks for having me. Thanks for everyone who watched this. And I hope this made you smile.
