The fact that Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio are currently working together on two upcoming projects (a TV series about the rapper Q-Tip and a movie about the 1996 Atlanta bombing) strongly suggests that the two are now good, close friends. But during the filming of Wolf of Wall Street, their relationship may have been better described with the word “frenemies.”;

As Jonah Hill recently explained to ABC News, DiCaprio was partly to blame for a scene in which Hill was punched in the face for real. But the Superbad star managed to figure out a creative way to get even—by altering a single line in the script, Hill forced DiCaprio to feast on sushi to the point of vomiting.

The trouble all started during a scene where Hill’s character is confronted by a violent drug dealer. “He’s supposed to pull a gun on me and then he’s supposed to punch me in the face,” Hill said. “And we’re shooting it and we do a couple takes… Scorsese’s going, ‘Well, I don’t know. It doesn’t look good. Doesn’t look good,’ then he turns to me and he goes, ‘Hey kid, you want to try one more [where] he hits you for real?'”

Unable to say no to a director of Scorsese’s stature, Hill looked to DiCaprio to bail him out. “I turned to Leo…because I’m never going to say no to Martin Scorsese, and Leo just, I’m looking at him like, ‘Please help,’ … and then he just slowly looks away in the other direction, leaving me hung out to dry basically… and I go, ‘OK, alright, cool, alright, let’s do this.'”

With DiCaprio unwilling to intervene, Hill ended up shooting the scene as Scorsese wished—by taking a fist to the face. “My big fake teeth that I wear split in half and fly out of my mouth, and I’m on the floor,” Hill said. “Scorsese’s like, ‘Get him new teeth and shoot his face because it’s swelling.'”

But Hill got his revenge on the Titanic star later in the shoot. During the film’s climactic sushi-eating scene, Hill subtly altered the script so that DiCaprio had to eat sushi all night long.

“It’s my favorite scene I’ve ever shot in any film,” Hill said. “The line was for me to say to [DiCaprio], ‘Are you going to eat that last piece of yellowtail?’ and then I’m supposed to eat it. And in the first take I just said, ‘Take that last piece of yellowtail,’ … and so he had to eat it.”

A notorious perfectionist, Scorsese demanded take after take.

“We did takes all night, and so he had to eat, like, 80 pieces of raw yellowtail,” Hill said. “And by the end of the night, he was on the floor throwing up in a trash bin, and everyone was so concerned… and the only two people on the floor laughing were myself and Martin Scorsese.”

Watch ABC News” full interview with Jonah Hill on the ABC Special, “Countdown to the Oscars,” on Thursday, Feb. 27.