Cera collaborated with Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva on two films in 2013 – '' Magic Magic '' and '' Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus '' – both of which were filmed in Chile and premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival . He spent " five hours a day learning Spanish " for '' Magic Magic '' . Cera was featured most prominently in '' Crystal Fairy '' , in which he starred as a self-absorbed man travelling Chile with a woman named " Crystal Fairy " ( played by Gaby Hoffmann ) while bearing a cactus . Along with Reggie Watts , Tim & Eric , and Sarah Silverman , Cera created the web-based comedy YouTube channel Jash in March 2013 , where he has posted short films which he directs and/or stars in . These films include the comedy-drama '' Gregory Go Boom '' ( 2013 ) , in which Cera played a paraplegic man , and his directorial debut '' Brazzaville Teen-Ager '' ( 2013 ) , co-starring Charles Grodin as his sick father . He played an exaggerated version of himself in the apocalyptic comedy film '' This Is the End '' , which was released in summer of 2013 and featured his '' Superbad '' co-stars Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen . Throughout 2013 , Cera also appeared on '' Burning Love '' , a web spoof of reality dating competition shows , and on an episode of '' Drunk History '' as John Endecott . Cera had previously played Alexander Hamilton in a comedic retelling of Hamilton 's duel with Aaron Burr on the show 's first episode as a web series in 2008 before it was adapted into a television show
2013 Sundance Film Festival
2013 Sundance Film Festival
Michael Cera