Why Jonah Hill Included Joke About Kanye West and Jews in New Movie ‘Outcome’

Jonah Hill included a Kanye “Ye” West joke in his new movie Outcome and it all stemmed from a 2023 Instagram post from the rapper, where he said the actor’s performance in 21 Jump Street made him “like Jewish people again.”

The actor, who is Jewish, opened up about the controversial rapper’s “bizarre public thing” during a recent appearance on Apple Music’s The Zane Lowe Show. West has faced widespread backlash over the last few years for making several antisemitic remarks and releasing a song called “Heil Hitler.”

“I felt that he did this bizarre public thing to kind of make up, like, ‘It’s all good cause I love Jonah,’” Hill said of the rapper’s 2023 social media post. “[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 [with] in the Jewish community. Me and him got no beef.”