A profile in “Esquire” is usually a sign that a young actor has arrived, but Miles Teller admits he wasn’t all that thrilled with the piece the magazine ran on him earlier this year, in which the word “d**k” was used numerous times.
The article begins thusly: “You’re sitting across from Miles Teller at the Luminary restaurant in Atlanta and trying to figure out if he’s a dick.” The word is used in reference to the “Whiplash” star several more lines, with the article’s conclusion predicting that Teller will “charm the world with his d**kishness.”
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“Oh, I felt frickin’ helpless, I felt extremely misrepresented, I felt a little angry,” Teller said in an interview with The Guardian. “For the average person, they are reading this article, they haven’t met you, they’re like, ‘Oh, Miles is an a**hole. You didn’t hear it? You didn’t read that Esquire? Yeah, she said he was an a**hole – he must be!’”
Teller, however, says that “misrepresentation” is far from accurate.
“I’d say that you get a little more guarded but I’m actually not,” he added. “Certain times I’ll choose my words very carefully and maybe come off a little more boring. But I also think that’s why people – certain people – do relate to me: because there is no agenda, honestly. I was raised middle-class in a small town. I have all my same friends from high school. I’m close with my family. I’m dating a normal girl. So I want to feel people think I’m a man of the people. Because I feel that way.”
