Christopher Mintz-Plasse

According to Seth Rogan and Judd Apatow, Jonah Hill “immediately hated” Christopher Mintz-Plasse during the callback audition for Superbad.

He was Dean Martin instead of Jerry Lewis.” I couldn’t perform with that guy,’” Rogen explained. He was like, ‘That was f***ing with my rhythm.

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"I was just, like, a scrawny kid. "And I said, 'That’s exactly why we’re hiring him. "Jonah said, 'I don’t like that guy.

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And I would run out of the Chipotle, and all of their friends would run after me. “I remember the weekend after, going to Chipotle,” he says. “Jonah immediately hated him,” says writer-star Seth Rogen.

It's hard to imagine anyone playing Superbad's McLovin aside from Christopher Mintz-Plasse, but Jonah Hill was actually against the casting.

“Especially as a 20-year-old, who is trying to figure out who the fuck I am. And I went in a second time and read with Greg [Mottola] the director, and then got a third callback, and read with Jonah [Hill] and Mike [Cera].” And it was pretty draining.” This is a cultural thing,'” said Seth Rogen. “I was just, like, a scrawny kid. I was the only one who got a callback, which was a little weird. he was like, ‘That was fucking with my rhythm. I was super stoked to be there. I couldn’t perform with that guy,'” added Seth Rogen. Eventually, casting director Allison Jones found the perfect candidate outside of Hollywood… Certain roles are so singular, they inevitably become synonymous with the actors who brought them to life. [Vanity Fair’s](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/superbad-oral-history) recent oral history of the classic millennial film’s production, the casting of Fogell / McLovin initially proved to be a Herculean task.

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“I know that Jonah [Hill] said, ‘Oh it’ll be funny to do it when we’re 70 or 80,’ but I really wanted them to do a Superbad in college where Jonah flunks out of college and just shows up and visits Michael Cera at college.” “It was my first movie, and I was nervous,” he added, before revealing that after the film premiered and won the hearts of viewers, he achieved sudden fame. “He played it like he was clearly the coolest guy in the room and everyone else was a nerd and a loser,” director Greg Mottola said of Mintz-Plasse’s audition. “I always wanted them to do a sequel to ‘Superbad,’” Apatow said earlier in the interview. Mintz-Plasse said he was a “scrawny kid” who was “super stoked” to even be auditioning for his first feature film. According to Variety, Jonah Hill was already cast in the film and was reading scenes opposite actors auditioning to play Fogell (aka McLovin).