![]() Then there are the scars-on his chin, his left cheek, incising his neck. He's appealingly attainable, a good-looking guy who shouldn't know he's good-looking, who should believe the commenters, except that he dates a twenty-two-year-old model/aspiring swimsuit designer/professional girlfriend who thinks Teller is attractive enough to have permanently monogrammed her perfect ass with his initials. He's tall and solidly muscled, with a nice tan from filming Todd Phillips's big-budget comedy Arms and the Dudes with Jonah Hill in Miami a few months ago. ![]() He's right-he has good hair, thick and cowlicked and widow's-peaked. The nose is crooked, the eyelids fleshy, the chin soft, the cheeks mottled with flush. Maybe it's because I came from a small town, but I always did well for myself." "I was in one of these forums about a film I did, and it's like, 'This dude is so ugly! How does he get fucking parts?' 'Well, he's not, like, traditionally handsome, but . . .' And that's kind of what it is. "I was thinking about that today, how I probably think I'm better-looking than the public thinks I am," he says with a laugh, like it's funny that he's willed himself into a higher tier of male beauty through limitless confidence. It's a little defensive, like maybe he's making up for not being the best-looking, or sometimes even the third-best-looking, guy in any given movie he's in. He's brought up how nice it is in more than one interview. Not all of them were winners, but they allowed him to show his thing, his Tellerian essence, by talking faster and drinking more and seeming to give fewer shits and inhaling more of the oxygen in the room than anyone else.Īfter the waitress leaves, shrugging off his comment about the highball glass, you ask him about his hair. Of course, in between there was the stupid, easy, fun spate of movies in which Teller played characters who do things like tell the waitress that highball glasses are based on his dick: 21 & Over, Two Night Stand, Project X, That Awkward Moment. Now he's in the action game, with the Divergent series and this summer's Fantastic Four. And his performance in last year's Whiplash, the two-hander about the sexless S&M relationship between a music teacher and his student, won him a lot of attention and a couple tickets to the Oscars. His first role, in 2010's Rabbit Hole, was as a tremulous teenager who runs over and kills the son of a couple played by Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart. But the thing is, you agree with him: His admittedly limited body of work so far, his oeuvre-a word you define and spell for him, so who's the dick now?-is pretty great. He says he wants to contribute to the body of great acting in the world, to the . . . shit, he can't find the term- cache? catalog? canon? Whatever, you know what he means. Really related to what you're talking about and striving for greatness and how it can oftentimes be an isolated journey, and how relationships can be a weakness in a way, if you're really kind of going after it. ![]() He recounts a direct message he-a twenty-eight-year-old actor still trying to find his place in his profession-sent to five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant through Twitter: Kobe, watched your Showtime documentary. to needle crooked X's and I's onto their biceps. He explains that everyone in the "32 Crew" got this tattoo after a night at the High Octane Saloon from a man they bribed out of bed at 2:00 a.m. He is wearing a pool-blue V-neck that shows off the Roman-numeral tattoo on his arm, a reference to the thirty-two-ounce beers his high school friends were forced to buy because forties were not available in Florida. Then he tells the waitress the same thing. You've just told him, by way of making conversation, that according to legend the champagne coupe in your hand is shaped like Marie Antoinette's left breast, and he tells you the highball glass is modeled after his cock. You're sitting across from Miles Teller at the Luminary restaurant in Atlanta and trying to figure out if he's a dick.
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