The Wolf of Wall Street actor has criticized the fashion industry’s exclusion of overweight people.

 

Jona hill has been active beyond his comedy origins in recent years.

In 2018, Hill made his directorial debut with Mid90s, a super-nostalgic time capsule focused on skating culture. He also starred in Cary Joji Fukunaga’s Maniac on Netflix, a surrealist, dystopian miniseries.

In a recent interview with GQ, Hill discussed his relationship with ‘style’ and how he’s allowed himself to embrace it more as his career progressed.

“I think I was conditioned for that based on my acting career,” Hill explained. “Because, (A) being overweight and (B) comedy, you’re not supposed to be into fashion on either of those sides. When I was coming up in comedy, you would get made fun of if you cared about fashion, but I always did.”

Write-ups and Instagram posts are hailing him as a newfound ‘king of style’, turning out a number of fashionable combinations as he walks the streets.

“I think the biggest shift in my personal style was that I always had an interest in personal style and fashion, but I was always a bigger guy,” he said. “It’s really hard when you’re overweight to dress a certain way because clothes aren’t made for people who are overweight to have style.”

“So, I think it surprises people. Even now, I’ll overhear someone discussing my place in the fashion world or whatever, and people are like: ‘That guy? The schlubby guy from Superbad?”

While filming the Mid90s, the actor was frequently wearing black, with some describing it as a ‘director’s uniform’.

“That’s so funny. It was just because I had to do press every day and I didn’t have the real estate in my brain… it was just a way to look nice and good,” he said.

People began to pay attention to Hill’s fashion sense. But for him, this is nothing new – it’s just always been sidelined compared to his other accomplishments.

“I mean, I already had a passion for style before I was directing the film. But I think, as you grow as a person and as an artist, of course, you have a better sense of self,” Hill said. “All my work, whether it’s designed, directing, acting, writing, any of it, is aiming towards just being my true self. So that can mean anything at any moment, especially in regards to style.”