--- title: Jonah Hill: Reveals Martin Scorsese Wolf of Wall Street Trick description: Jonah Hill revealed scene-saving Martin Scorsese Wolf of Wall Street trick. canonical: https://time.com/4457404/jonah-hill-martin-scorsese-wolf-of-wall-street/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-18T15:41:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:38.924Z og:title: How Martin Scorsese Got Jonah Hill to Calm Down During a Wolf of Wall Street Scene og:description: "I'm freaking out" og:url: https://time.com/4457404/jonah-hill-martin-scorsese-wolf-of-wall-street/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte664b7ae4767d268/6988a1193c16394aca45e5d7/jonah-hill-leonardo-dicaprio-scared.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Giorgio Armani Presents: The Wolf Of Wall Street World Premiere og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Martin Scorsese Got Jonah Hill to Calm Down During a Wolf of Wall Street Scene twitter:description: "I'm freaking out" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte664b7ae4767d268/6988a1193c16394aca45e5d7/jonah-hill-leonardo-dicaprio-scared.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jonah Hill Reveals How Martin Scorsese Got Him to Stop Freaking Out During a _Wolf of Wall Street_ Scene by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 18, 2016 3:41 PM UTC  Jonah Hill (L) and Leonardo DiCaprio attend Giorgio Armani Presents: "The Wolf Of Wall Street" world premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Dec. 17, 2013 in New York City. Jonah Hill (L) and Leonardo DiCaprio attend Giorgio Armani Presents: "The Wolf Of Wall Street" world premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Dec. 17, 2013 in New York City.Stephen Lovekin-Getty Images for Giorgio Armani by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 18, 2016 3:41 PM UTC [Jonah Hill](http://time.com/4438676/jonah-hill-leonardo-dicaprio-prank-scared/) revealed the process behind a [_Wolf of Wall Street_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPosIwxj630) scene, which started out as “a disaster” on Wednesday. In an interview with Bill Simmons on _Any Given Wednesday_, Hill revealed he managed to bang out that scene when his character Donnie Azoff and [Jordan Belfort](http://time.com/4368577/margot-robbie-suicide-squad-harley-quinn/) (Leonardo DiCaprio) meet for the first time in just a few takes. But it took more than “20” times to nail the scene when Donnie casually quits his job with his brother-in-law by phone. In the movie, Azoff quits because he’s ready to upgrade to being a wealthy upstanding salesman with Belfort. Hill, who remembered he was “freaking out” and “sweating” when they shot the diner scene, said that Scorsese didn’t give the actor any feedback on why his performance wasn’t working. Instead, Scorsese just sat with Hill in silence while the director read the newspaper for a while, and it got Hill totally chill enough to finally knock it out of the park. 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