For these of you who preserve tabs on Kanye West, you possible caught a giant piece of stories that broke this previous weekend: he likes Jewish individuals “once more.” Following a stretch of time the place the rapper shared quite a few antisemitic sentiments (which resulted in Adidas and different manufacturers chopping ties with him), West, a.okay.a. Ye, as he’s been legally identified since late 2021, posted on social media that watching Jonah Hill in 2012’s 21 Leap Road led to him altering his tune on this entrance. Now Seth Rogen, a fellow Jewish expertise in Hollywood, has shared his ideas on his Superbad co-star curing West of his antisemitism.
CinemaBlend’s personal Jeff McCobb broached the topic whereas talking with Seth Rogen about The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film, as Rogen voices Donkey Kong within the 2023 new film launch. When McCobb requested the actor if he was “jealous” of Jonah Hill being the actor who led Kanye West to doing a 180 on antisemitism, he instantly began laughing after which stated these phrases within the midst of nonetheless busting a intestine:
You already know what? He can have it. Comfortable to be not noted of that one. However what? Good! Cured!… They need to ship that film around the globe, let everybody watch it!
After his viewing of 21 Leap Road, the buddy cop comedy that noticed Jonah Hill starring reverse Channing Tatum, Kanye West wrote on Instagram that, “Nobody ought to take anger in opposition to one or two people and rework that into hatred in direction of thousands and thousands of harmless individuals.” For sure this introduced all kinds of responses on-line, from some questioning if West was being severe, to different believing this is likely to be the beginning of a “redemption arc” for him. I’m simply ready to see what West thinks of 22 Leap Road and if he would have appreciated to have seen that scrapped Leap Road/Males in Black crossover.
So Seth Rogen is pleased with Kanye West altering his thoughts on Jewish individuals from watching a Jonah Hill film slightly than one among his personal. Solely, it seems that Rogen does have a connection to 21 Leap Road, as he later advised Jeff McCobb:
I wrote some jokes for that film, so I really feel slight possession.
I’m certain Jonah Hill would haven’t any subject passing alongside partial credit score to you, Seth Rogen. After Kanye West shared the large information, 21 Leap Road co-director Christopher Miller shared his ideas on the matter, and it was clear that like the remainder of us, he was left perplexed by this revelation. Miller helmed 21 Leap Road with Phil Lord, Hill and Channing Tatum had been joined onscreen by Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Roy Riggle and Ice Dice, amongst others.
As for Seth Rogen, together with The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film opening on April 5, we’ll hear him this August as Bebop in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, which he’s additionally producing. Rogen’s different upcoming tasks embrace taking part in a yet-to-be-revealed function in Dumb Cash and reprising Pumbaa in Mufasa: The Lion King. Must you want to watch 21 Leap Road and attempt to discern at what level it labored its magic on Kanye West, it may be streamed with a Netflix subscription.
