Person:miles Teller

  • NewsKevin Polowy

    The Yahoo Movies Interview: Miles Teller on 'Whiplash,' 'Divergent' Backlash, and Bleeding for His Art

    It’s the day after the premiere and after party for his latest film, Whiplash, and Miles Teller has certainly felt better. Teller stars as Andrew, a jazz drummer at an elite music conservatory who wants so badly to be a musical great that he not only forfeits all personal relationships, he also withstands the emotional and physical abuse of a fiercely intimidating instructor (J.K. Simmons).  Teller shares not only Andrew’s musical talent, but also his drive. He’s already wrapped two other potent

  • NewsGwynne Watkins

    Miles Teller: Filming 'Divergent' Made Me Feel 'Dead Inside'

    “When I first read Whiplash, I was feeling dead inside,” Teller tells W magazine. “I didn’t have an interesting part [in Divergent], and I’d taken the film for business reasons: It was the first movie I’d done that was going to have an international audience. Teller, who played the bully Peter in Divergent (and will reprise the role in the sequel Insurgent), wasn’t director Damien Chazelle’s first choice for Whiplash. As fate would have it, Dane DeHaan turned the part down, and Teller immediat