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Jonah Hill Feldstein (born December 20, 1983) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and director. He is known for his comedic roles in films including Superbad (2007), Knocked Up (2007), 21 Jump Street (2012), This Is the End (2013), and 22 Jump Street (2014). For his performances in Moneyball (2011) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Hill ranked 28th on Forbes magazine's list of highest-paid actors from June 2014 to June 2015, at $16 million. In 2020, he was found to have sworn on film more than any other actor. As a screenwriter, he contributed to the stories of 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, Sausage Party and Why Him? In 2018, he starred in the Netflix dark comedy miniseries Maniac and made his directorial debut with the film Mid90s. He also wrote the screenplay for Mid90s. Hill has provided voices for the animated films Horton Hears a Who! (2008), Megamind (2010), How to Train Your Dragon (2010–2019), The Lego Movie (2014), and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019).
The season will be told in a non linear narrative, with different actors and actresses playing the characters in the Profumo affair at different points in their lives. In the end though, the story is all about Christine Keeler, going backwards and forwards in each episode to tell the story of the sexism levelled at one teenager for destroying the British government. It also examines how the media has portrayed her in popular culture, from the Spice Girls paying homage to her chair photo, to how she was reduced, in her own word, to a newspaper clipping, without being able to reclaim her story. It also, during the show’s Oppenheimer-esque framing, explains how Harvey Weinstein brought the US rights to distribute the 1989 Profumo Affair movie Scandal, when Miramax was still a new player in the Hollywood studio world. In the end, this season is about the rigid sexist thinking of the UK in the pre MeToo era, how Christine struggled to take back her narrative, and how she died 2 months after Harvey Weinstein was disgraced. This instalment of the UK scandal series adapts all 5 books Christine wrote in her lifetime about the scandal that brought her infamy, and puts you inside the disturbing mind of the original Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
