The “Outcome” actor-director says he’s not surprised his joke about the rapper actually came true.

Jonah Hill says prophetic joke about Ye in new movie proves ‘you can go on a Jew-hating tour’ and still be successful

The "Outcome" actor-director says he's not surprised his joke about the rapper actually came true.

By Kathleen Perricone

April 6, 2026 10:54 p.m. ET

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Some jokes just write themselves.

In Jonah Hill's new movie *Outcome*, which he co-wrote and directed, Keanu Reeves stars as an actor being blackmailed with a mysterious video. As his crisis lawyer (also played by Hill) tries to determine its incriminating content, he wonders if it could be something antisemitic.

"There's a joke in the movie," Hill explains to SiriusXM's Julia Cunningham, "my assistant says, 'Actually we did the research and it turns out being antisemitic doesn't hurt your career; it helps it' — and it cuts to a picture of Kanye [West] that's on my wall."

As it turns out, Ye just sold out back-to-back concerts at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, with a combined audience of 140,000 fans. The first show on April 1 featured a surprise performance by the rapper’s 12-year-old daughter, North West.

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And that proves the point of the joke, says Hill.

"It's not to take a shot at Ye or anything. It's not to take a shot at anything that hurts people's feelings," he told Cunningham on Monday. "It's to say that culture's f---ing weird and it always has been and it always will be and one of the funny things about it is like you can go on a Jew-hating tour and then sell out [SoFi Stadium]."

A representative for Ye did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.

Hill, who is Jewish, added that like his character in *Outcome*, he can separate the art from the artist.

"I don't have judgment. People can, you know, it's up to everyone individually to judge what they judge and my publicist is like right over your shoulder," he joked, as his *Outcome* co-stars Reeves, Cameron Diaz, David Spade, Matt Bomer, and Laverne Cox all erupted in laughter.

But not all is completely forgiven for Ye.

Ye is set to embark on a world tour in support of his new album 'Bully'.

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Two days after the rapper's successful run in Los Angeles, Pepsi pulled out as a sponsor of the Wireless Festival in London due to mounting backlash over Ye headlining the July event.

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In response, Melvin Benn, managing director of Wireless Festival's parent company Festival Republic, told ** he hopes people will "forgive" the rapper and "move on" from his past antisemitic remarks.

"He is intended to come in and perform," said Benn. "We are not giving him a platform to extol opinion of whatever nature, only to perform the songs that are currently played on the radio stations in our country and the streaming platforms in our country and listened to and enjoyed by millions."

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