Skateboarding’s cool, right. It just is. It’s kind of dirty, and grubby, and sometimes high, but it’s also counter-culture, and yet accepting of all cultures, and that’s just…
Well, whatever it is, it’s something that celebrities like to have rub off on them a little. As such, it’s no great surprise too see anybody from Justin Bieber through to Zac Efron and those clearly-not-set-up shots of skateboarding in a supermarket, rolling around on seven sheets of ply.
So, when you see a celebrity talking both knowledgeably and enthusiastically about skateboarding, it’s kind of unusual. And yet, that’s exactly what American film star, comedian, and born-again-calorie-counter Jonah Hill has done. You know, Jonah Hill. The dude that’s kind of dirty, and grubby, and sometimes … you know.