The coolest part of our, of this job,
is you get to go to other countries
and show the movies and stuff,
and one of my favorite things like, that happened
during one of those trips was we were promoting
"Get Him to the Greek," and we were in Dublin, Ireland,
and I'm always so excited when someone knows
the movies from a different country, I don't --
[Conan] - Yeah. Know why that our movies
come out in different countries. (laughter)
And they had a big premiere in Dublin, I didn't realize
there was a premiere, so I was just dressed
in like, jeans and a t-shirt, and some
dirty like Vans sneakers, right?
Yeah! (laughter) It was super embarrassing,
and I was so happy 'cause there was this group
of like, teenage girls, like teeny boppers,
like 12 or 13 years old, and they had this big sign
that said, "We love Jonah," and I was like,
so moved by that, I ran over and gave 'em a hug.
[Conan] - That's nice. And the girl was like,
freaking out, and I was so, I was just like "Oh hey,"
and gave her a hug, and she was like, she didn't know
what to say, I guess, and so she just like screamed out,
(Irish accent) "Jonah, yer trainers are gorgeous!"
(laughter) Trainers is like shoes,
but I'm wearing some crappy-ass shoes, yeah!
Oh, shoes is trainers? "Your trainers are gorgeous," wow.
(Irish accent) "Jonah, yer trainers are gorgeous."
(laughter) And then like, it was so awkward afterwards,
because she knew I wasn't wearing like nice shoes
or anything, and she had messed up, and I was just like,
"Thanks, and uh..." (laughter) So I say that all the time.
You say that now, everywhere?
If a my friend has like, a cool pair of shoes,
I'll be like "Yer trainers are gorgeous!" (laughter)
Do you get any, like, here's the... the times I get
to travel for this job it's always go to this,
you know, part of the world, and be there
for a couple of hours and then move,
I never get any down time, do you ever
get down time when you're promoting a movie internationally?
Yeah, well the most fun tour I mean, one of the
best pressed tours I ever went on was for 21 Jump Street,
'cause Channing Tatum is one of my best friends,
he's like my brother, and we got to go to Australia.
And the flight was so long, it was crazy,
and when Channing and I get together like,
really bad stuff just happens, like... (laughter)
It's not okay, you know. (laughter)
And he was basically like, pouring drinks down my throat
from the second we got on the plane --
Oh yeah, so it's his fault, yeah. (laughter)
Yeah yeah, it was all him, I was like
"No, I want to sleep!" Um nah... no, I was wrong too.
Yeah. (laughter) So we, we get there,
and we get off the plane, and immediately were like,
"Let's go swimming," and so we go to Bonsai Beach --
So what state are you in when you
get off the plane, let's be fair.
Blackout drunk. (laughter) Okay.
So like, we go and we're like, what's the coolest beach,
and they're like Bonsai Beach, now we didn't know
that there's literally a reality show called Bondi Rescue,
because there's such a bad rip tide there,
that dumb tourists get off the plane
and go swimming and drown. Yeah.
And get rescued, okay. Yeah, yeah.
And so we go in the ocean, and I start swimming,
and then like a second later, or what feels like a second,
I look back and Chan's about a mile away from me,
(laughter) he's this big, and he's
a big guy, he's literally this big --
Is he the one that's drifting out far?
No, I'm the one that's who's drifting out!
Oh you are! Oh, good. (laughter)
He's like, by the beach, taking pictures with people,
and I'm literally like, head bobbing out,
like "What's going on, where am I?"
And I start to swim as hard as I can,
and I'm not going anywhere. Yeah.
So I'm like, this is how I die. (laughter)
Yeah. Like I'm a guy who died
in an ocean in Australia, and that's that, wasted, okay?
So finally, a guy comes out on a jet ski, and he's like,
(Australian accent) "Hey mate, we got to pull you in,
you can die out here!" (laughter)
And so I'm like, terrible Australian accent, and so,
he kind of pulls me in, and I start swimming
and I'm exhausted from all the time I was swimming in place,
um... (laughter) And what's crazy is there was paparazzi
on the beach, and rarely in life you tell a story
that sounds ridiculous, and there's a picture
that's even more ridiculous than the actual story,
and I'm going to show it to you guys.
You have the picture of you struggling in the water --
Yes, almost drowning. (laughter)
[Conan] - To paparazzi... (long laughter)
[Conan] - You, you really look like
you're ready to meet God. (laughter)
I literally saw like, my whole life flashing
before my eyes, so okay, there's also another picture
of me traumatized on the beach.
[Conan] - Yeah, they get you back to the beach --
(audience laughing loudly)
[Jonah] - Literally like a scared child
who's been through a trauma, okay. (Conan laughing)
[Andy] - The best part: still drunk.
[Jonah] - Yeah, just blackout, and so,
the worst part of it was we're there for a week doing press,
and you know in your hotel they leave a newspaper sometimes,
I open the newspaper, on the front page of the Sydney
newspaper was "Johah Hill, actor almost drowns,"
[Conan] - Oh my God. And that picture
is on the cover of the newspaper,
for all of Australia to see, and then every interview
we did started off with "Heard you went
for a swim yesterday, huh?" (laughter)
Which is like, yeah... It's like, ergh!
It's just screwed.
"Somebody needs to get some floaties, eh?"