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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
Martha Alexander

From Jonah Hill to James Franco — why can’t men in Hollywood text properly?

Are the men of Hollywood okay? Because, from where I’m sitting, an increasing number of them seem incapable of basic propriety when it comes to texting. As though somehow their phone screen represents a different realm entirely, where they can say things that they wouldn’t in real life, and certainly not in public.

Jonah Hill is the latest high profile man to have texts said to be sent from him exposed: the Superbad actor’s ex-girlfriend, model and surfer Sarah Brady, revealed alleged exchanges, in which he purported to lay down boundaries for their ‘romantic partnership’, but looked very much like attempts to control her.

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