Jonah Hill shades Ye in new movie after rapper claimed “21 Jump Street” cured his antisemitism
Jonah Hill shades Ye in new movie after rapper claimed “21 Jump Street” cured his antisemitism
Wesley StenzelSat, April 11, 2026 at 2:00 PM UTC
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Jonah Hill in New York City on April 6, 2026; Ye in New York City on Nov. 7, 2019Credit: Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty; Brad Barket/GettyKey points -
A character in Jonah Hill's new film, Outcome, says, "Turns out that hating Jews doesn't negatively affect a person's career."
The film then cuts to a prominent photo of Ye.
Ye previously said that "Watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street made me like Jewish people again."
The artist formerly known as Kanye West publicly expressed his admiration for Jonah Hill after numerous antisemitic remarks — but it doesn't seem like the Superbad actor has forgiven him.
Hill's third directorial film, Outcome, landed on Apple TV on Friday and features a prominent jab at Ye. The movie follows Reef Hawk (Keanu Reeves), an A-list Hollywood star and recovering addict who fears the destruction of his reputation when a mysterious extortionist threatens to release a damaging video of him.
About 30 minutes into the film, Reef attends a meeting assembled by his crisis PR agent, Ira Slitz (Hill). The meeting includes specialists who advise Reef in the event of sexual misconduct or racism accusations. However, Hill's character is surprised when a representative from the antisemitism committee fails to attend the meeting.
Laverne Cox, Jonah Hill, and Keanu Reeves in 'Outcome'Credit: Apple TV
"Where's Moshe from the antisemitism committee?" he asks.
"We ran the numbers," his colleague Hazel (Annie Hamilton) responds. "Turns out that hating Jews doesn't negatively affect a person's career. In fact, it can even help."
The film then cuts to a close-up of a portrait of West on the conference room wall, and the scene ends.
West isn't the only notable figure whose photo adorns the walls of the crisis PR office — there are also pics of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Kim Kardashian, and Kevin Spacey revealed later in the movie — but the emphasis on his particular photo in the aforementioned scene is clearly intended as a visual punchline to the joke set up by Hill and Hamilton's character.
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for Ye for comment.
The "Black Skinhead" rapper has a long history of antisemitic remarks. He previously wished "death con 3" on the Jewish people, praised Adolf Hitler, and appeared to promote antisemitic conspiracy theories. Such comments have resulted in lost sponsorship deals, bans from social media platforms, and, most recently, an alleged block from entering the United Kingdom.
Ye has apologized for his remarks on a few occasions, including in an ad in The Wall Street Journal, in a social media rant, and in a message written in Hebrew.
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Ye in Los Angeles on March 21, 2024Credit: Bellocqimages/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
Perhaps his strangest apology, however, was directed specifically at Hill. In 2023, Ye posted a photo of Hill's 2012 film 21 Jump Street on Instagram and announced that he'd experienced a change of heart.
"Watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street made me like Jewish people again. No one should take anger against one or two individuals and transform that into hatred towards millions of innocent people," Ye wrote in his caption at the time.
Ye added, "No Christian can be labeled 'antisemite' knowing Jesus is Jew…Thank you, Jonah Hill. I love you."
Keanu Reeves and Jonah Hill in 'Outcome'Credit: Tobin Yelland/Apple TV
Hill addressed Ye's Jump Street post in a recent interview with The Zane Lowe Show.
"I felt that he did this bizarre public thing to kind of make up, like, 'It's all good, cause I love Jonah,'" the Moneyball actor said. "[It] just sat with me in a way that it's, like, all good. I love him still, and I hope whatever happens, he can heal or whatever, and everyone can heal from all that stuff. I hope he can heal and make it right with the people he needs to make it right to in the Jewish community, whatever."
In the same interview, Hill also said he doesn't feel he has a genuine feud with the rapper and explained why he included a photo of Ye in Outcome. "Me and him got no beef," he said. "I just put that in there like, 'Yo, you're gonna put the 21 Jump Street poster up there and say you don't hate Jews anymore? That's pretty wild. I'm gonna put a picture of you saying that hating Jews helps your career. Obviously, that's a joke on my part — it doesn't help your career. But it's me just having fun with, alright, I'm a comedian. It's not horribly mean to Kanye, that joke.'"
Jonah Hill in New York City on April 6, 2026Credit: Cindy Ord/Getty
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Hill also opined that the joke doubles as something of a prophecy, as Ye recently performed back-to-back sold-out shows at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles despite his repeated antisemitic comments.
"It's to say that culture's f---ing weird and it always has been and it always will be and one of the funny things about it is like you can go on a Jew-hating tour and then sell out [SoFi Stadium]," Hill said in an interview with SiriusXM's Julia Cunningham.
Outcome is now streaming on Apple TV.
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