Jonah Hill is apologizing for hurling a “disgusting” homophobic slur at a photographer over the weekend.
“I am not at all defending my choice of words,” the “22 Jump Street” star, 30, said on “The Howard Stern Show” on Tuesday morning, reports TMZ.
“But I am happy to be the poster boy for thinking about what you say and how those words — even if you don’t intend them, in how they mean — they are rooted in hate, and that’s bulls—t and I shouldn’t have said that,” he continued.
Over the weekend, Hill was captured on camera telling a paparazzo to “Suck my d—k, f—t!”
“Look, I think I am pretty good at making movies, I am not good at being a famous person. I’m just not!” the actor told Stern.
“There are some people who are meant for it. If you call me ugly, if you call family members of mine drug addicts and maniacs, I’m eventually going to lose my cool. Now what I said in that moment, was disgusting and a hurtful term. I should have said either nothing or ‘f—k you.'”
Hill also noted he’s been a gay rights activist since the “day [he] was born” and has spoken out against homophobia before. In November, he tweeted a picture of himself wearing a shirt that read “Love Conquers Hate,” in Russian, to protest the country’s anti-gay laws.