Jonah Hill’s Dramatic Weight Loss on Film Set in LA

Jonah Hill continued showing off his dramatic weight loss transformation while on the set of his upcoming movie Cut Off in Los Angeles.

The 41-year-old actor went for a double denim look as he was getting ready to shoot a scene, and his clothes appeared oversized on his thin frame.

While arriving on set, he wore a baggy denim button-down shirt and a pair of darker-wash jeans with rolled cuffs. 

Later, he was seen wearing the same outfit while getting his hair and makeup done to transform into his character before getting into costume.

He previously stunned fans earlier this week when the barely recognizable actor appeared on set and debuted his impressive weight loss transformation. 

Several weeks ago, Hill kicked off production on Cut Off, in which he is credited as the director, producer and co-writer as well as the leading star. 

His all-star cast for the forthcoming movie includes movie icons Kristen Wiig, Bette Midler and Nathan Lane. 

In the film, Wiig and Hill play a pair of entitled siblings whose wealthy parents stop supporting financially. 

Cut Off is slated for release next summer and will premiere on July 17, 2026. 

The star — who lost 40 pounds in 2011 — previously explained that he lost weight over a decade ago by working with a nutritionist to change his diet and ‘physically running instead of emotionally running,’ he said on Kidd Kraddick in the Morning. 

In his 2022 documentary Stutz, Hill opened up about how fame and public opinion affected his body image.

‘The media kept being really brutal about my weight,’ he said at the time. 

‘It was just kind of free game for anyone to sort of hit my sore sport. It made me so defensive — like almost anticipating someone saying something mean. I’d be so angry.’

 He admitted: ‘It kept me from feeling any sense of [being] able to grow past negative feelings about myself.’ 

He also discussed his fluctuating weight with his therapist Phil Stutz for his second feature directorial effort in the Netflix documentary.

‘When I was a kid, exercise and diet was framed to me as like, “There’s something wrong with how you look,”‘ the Winning Time director recalled. 

‘But never once was exercise and diet propositioned to me in terms of mental health. I just wish that was presented to people differently.’ 

Hill admitted growing up overweight ‘intensely f***ed me up,’ and inside he still feels like ‘a 14-year-old boy who’s very overweight and has acne and feels very undesirable to the world.’ 

‘​Inherently, at my core, I’m still this unlovable person,’ Hill explained. ‘But the work is inching toward [realizing] that it’s great to be this person. But that’s still very hard.’ 

Back in October 2018, he made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and read an excerpt from his magazine, Inner Children, in which he said he spent most of his young adult life being called ‘gross and unattractive.’

He said on the daytime talk show: ‘I really believe everyone has a snapshot of themselves from a time when they were young that they’re ashamed of.’

He added: ‘For me, it’s that 14-year-old overweight and unattractive kid who felt ugly to the world, who listened to hip-hop and who wanted so badly to be accepted by this community of skaters.’