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Published 15:34 26 Aug 2021 GMT
Jonah Hill has compared Instagram to cigarettes and described social media as "death".
The actor, 37, made the revelation in his recent GQ cover story where he said despite knowing how unhealthy Instagram is, he still "fully participates" in using the app, but has learned his limits.
"So, Instagram. Instagram - as I smoke a cigarette - is the cigarettes of this time. It is the biggest killer. It is death," Hill said.
"And I fully participate in it, like I smoke cigarettes. Again, it's a spectrum of what you find healthy. I have to have really limited interaction with it."
Hill said that his late 92-year-old neighbor Geoff taught him that in order to be truly happy, you shouldn't pay too much attention to what other people are doing.
"I said, 'What’s the deal, man? You're the happiest guy I've ever seen in my life. Why are you so f***ing happy?' And he's like, 'I don’t look around at what anybody else is doing. I just live my life, and I don't look at what other people are doing,'" he shared.
The actor then opened up about how he was "brutal" to himself throughout his twenties because of his appearance.
He said that this was a result of him being "a target for abuse" in comedy and skateboarding communities as "an insecure, overweight kid."
"I sucked at skateboarding. But I would throw myself down 10 stairs to make my friends laugh, knowing I couldn't ever do any trick that would be good," he told filmmaker Adam McKay.
Hill continued: "Or in comedy, I would be brutal to myself, or allow brutality to me because I felt like that was my seat at the table."
The 'Knocked Up' star said that people who pursue comedy and skateboard like him "are the smartest, most interesting, most damaged and beautiful people."
"They really remind me of each other because they bring in these lost souls that don't fit anywhere else, and they really are similar," he said.
The actor added that being "overweight" in comedy and skateboarding was "like having a scarlet letter on you."
