Hey and welcome back to the A24 podcast.

Today's guests became best friends in 2007 while traveling the world together on the

marathon press tour for Superbad.

In the 12 years since, Jonah Hill and Michael Serra have stayed close as their careers continue

to expand in new directions.

This past year, Jonah made his incredible filmmaking debut with mid-90s, while Michael Serra

has further established himself as a formidable Broadway actor, earning raves for his performance in Kenneth Lonergan's play, the Waverly Gallery.

Despite their busy schedules, we help them find an hour to sit down and finally catch up.

We're starting right now.

I'm Joni Hill.

I'm Michael, Sarah.

This is Michael Sarah, and we've been friends for almost 12 years maybe even longer now.

Yeah. Maybe 13 years. When do you consider our friendship starting? That's the question. I

consider it starting. I think halfway through shooting maybe super bad that's when you

consider the start no that's when I felt like oh you really love me well I felt

earlier you did yeah I felt during the we should start by saying we were in a movie called Super Bad together

Let's give a lot of context. Yeah, yeah. We'll go back. We are

Anybody who choose it like goes out of the way to listen to this I think doesn't need too much how do these two chaffs know one another

I mean like who's just randomly listening to this what a weird combination of people to throw together for a podcast

But we were told when we both got the part that we we Judd Apotel made us hang out because only directive was really to hang out.

Become friends. We obviously had this like, this movie

that like stuck around for a long time,

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