Next month will mark 14 years since Superbad premiered in theaters, becoming an instant pop culture phenomenon and elevating Jonah Hill, Michael Cera and Christopher Mintz-Plasse to true movie stars. (OK, Cera already had four seasons of Arrested Development under her belt, but still.)
Thinking about the 2007 comedy classic, we wondered what McLovin in particular was doing these days. So we’ve put together five things you need to know about Mintz-Plasse life right now.
With the benefit of hindsight, he describes the sudden celebrity that accompanied Superbad as “intense”.
After the overnight success of Superbad, the 17-year-old admits he wasn’t exactly equipped to handle so much sudden attention on the world stage. “It was very difficult to be no one for one minute and then literally two days after the movie came out I was recognized everywhere,” he told Page Six in May. “It was very alarming, it was very intense. There was a lot of anxiety, a lot of blackouts, but I had a great support system of friends and family, a great agent and manager to help me. to guide a career that I wanted – but it was intense.
“It was very alarming for a 17 year old. I was trying to figure out who I was as a human being back then and then having millions of people know you as McLovin was very intense.” , continued Mintz-Plasse. “It wasn’t like I was an actor working up to a certain level of fame. It was zero to 100 really quickly and I was barely out of high school. When that was happening, I think. that I was young and stupid enough to go along with the ride, but looking back on it now, it was very intense. “
You might recognize it in a recent Oscar hit.
While Mintz-Plasse has racked up a number of vocal credits over the years – from Fishlegs Ingerman in the How To Train Your Dragon franchise to King Gristle in Trolls – her last film appearance was in 2020, Oscar nominee Promising Young. Woman.
“It was only five minutes,” he said in the same interview with Page Six of his memorable scene with Carey Mulligan as “nice guy” Neil. “I had nothing to do with how tall it was but I recommend people go and watch it if they did ‘I haven’t seen it yet. I just think it’s one of the movies. most difficult of this year. “
He plays bass in a band.
One of the reasons you might not be seeing Mintz-Plasse in dozens of movies these days? He also focuses on music, playing bass in Los Angeles-based alternative rock band MainMan. Formed in 2017, the first single from the “WWH” quartet was featured on Funny or Die. Their follow-up Social Security Party EP, dropped later that year, and more recently they released the single “Bitterman” in 2019.
He’s dating a musical photographer.
According to her Instagram, Mintz-Plasse is in a relationship with musical photographer Britt Bowman. The actor shared a photo of the couple as recently as last month, writing, “We went to Fenway to celebrate my dad’s 70th birthday but I’m posting this photo because my girlfriend is just a little sexier than my father! But I love them both! “
He recently returned to Twitter.
The 32-year-old has been noticeably absent from Twitter in recent years, but has decided to resurrect his presence on the platform this summer. “Hey / hi how are everyone,” he tweeted on June 15 only to reappear on the Twitterverse. It’s unclear if he decides to continue tweeting, but for now you can follow him @MintzPlasse.
