'Mid90s' trivia and fun facts
Big advices
Before the shooting started, Jonah Hill received a lot of advices from Martin Scorsese and Ethan Coen about how to work with the movie.
Partying director
Jonah hill left the reunion of production from the movie to assist to a post-premiere album party of Kanye West.
Wash your hands after
There is a scene in which Stevie, drunk, pees in the outside. In his commentary about the film he says he was actually peeing.
returning actors
Some of the actors from 'Mid90s' also appeared briefly in 'Dont Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot', another film directed by Jonah Hill.
True experiences
The dialogue occuring in the skate's shop about Beverly Hills is based on a real Na'kel Smith's experience.
Tricked
After a screening test in a cinema, the projectionist though the film was originally from the 90s and thanked the director for releasing now an old film.
Influences
Some of the influences that lead Jonah Hill to make this movie were 'Kids' (1995), 'Ratcatcher' (1999) and 'The Sandlot' (1996).
A scene to make up
Jonan Hill admited that he was affraid of being called problematic for repeating all the time words like "fagg*t" throughout the movie and considered to shoot a scene in which they discussed if it was okey or not to say it. He showed the scene to producer Scott Rudin, who is gay, and he said: "would you have had this conversation back then?" and Joanh said: "No", so Rudin considered that: "it would have been more offesive to make up that scene than to really show what happened".
16 mm.
The entire movie is filmed on 16 millimeters.
Scorsese
Stevie's mum is watching a film at nigh, it is 'Goodfellas', from the director Martin Scorsese, premiered in 1990.