Jonah Hill says massive experience of death has left him very scared
Jonah Hill has admitted to being 'scared' following a close encounter with death.
Speaking in his new Netflix documentary Stutz, which follows the actor and his therapist Hill openly discusses his mental health and the progressively worsening anxiety attacks he has experienced around movie promotion that have turned what he does for a living into a nightmare.
The film aims to focus on renowned psychiatrist Phil Stutz and the cognitive-behavioral tools that he used to help treat Hill, but it does also see the Superbad actor share his own experiences, including the loss of his brother.
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Jordan Feldstein passed away in 2017 when he was just 40 years old, after suffering a pulmonary embolism.
In a clip from the documentary, which is overlaid with artistic images including some of Justin Bieber, Hill can be heard telling Stutz that death in itself is a 'complex subject' for everybody, but admitted that it makes him in particular 'very scared' to lose his therapist because he's the person he goes to for 'life advice and a sense of comfort that there is a way through things'.
"At the same time, the only time I've had massive experience with death, you were the person that got me through that, as well," Hill explained.
When Stutz sought to clarify that the actor was talking about his brother, Hill responded: "Yeah... he passed away unexpectedly a few years ago and before I made this movie I didn't know that you had lost your brother."
Hill recalled learning about Stutz's own experience with loss, and admitted that while his therapist remembers a lot about the day his own brother past away, Hill spends a lot of his time 'avoiding thinking about' the day Feldstein died.
"I went to your office that morning, it was definitely the most intense day of my life. It was definitely the most shook up I've ever been," he said.
Hill recalled how Stutz took a picture of him on that day, as the therapist explained that is rare in life to be able to record something at the 'most important moment'. In the time between taking the photo and coming back to it, then, Stutz explained that you can experience 'the forces of healing'.
Hill looked at the picture for the first time since it was taken, and described himself as looking 'oddly serene' as in that moment he was stripped of everything that 'didn't matter'.
"That's a picture of victory, even though it may not look like it," Stutz explained.
Topics: Jonah Hill, Mental Health, Netflix, Film and TV
Emily Brown