Watch the interview that made Jonah Hill quit his ‘War Dogs’ press tour in France

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Jonah Hill is no longer promoting his new movie, War Dogs, in France, after the Oscar-nominee was mocked by a French presenter on the CanalPlus program Le Grand Journal. Alongside War Dogs co-star Miles Teller, Hill was chided by Ornella Fleury, the program's weather reporter. 

Speaking in French — though Hill wore an earpiece so he could understand in real-time — Fleury referenced Hill's sodomizing scene in This Is the End as the starting point of a faux crush she had on the actor. 

"When I saw you get sodomized by a three-meter-tall demon in This Is the End, I told myself, 'Now that's the man of my dreams'!" Fleury said to an unamused Hill. 

"I hear you get sodomized pretty often," Hill quipped. Fleury continued:

Anyway, that's why I have a sexual fantasy with you, Jonah. We would meet up in a hotel room at night. We would chat, you'd make me laugh. Then all of a sudden, you'd bring your friends [Leonardo] DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, and then you'd go away.
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Afterward, Hill reportedly opted to cancel the rest of his press tour in France, and Fleury has since apologized for her comments. Per a translation from the Local, an English-language French publication: 

"Jonah, the problem is that for 10 years I have lived with you through your films," she said. "In fact, Jonah, I really had the impression that I knew you, so last Friday I thought I was just messing around with a friend, but the reality is that we are not friends." 

Watch the interaction between Hill and Fleury below.