Miles Teller: Esquire profile made War Dogs actor feel extremely misrepresented

Miles Teller is still feeling whiplash from his profile in Esquire last year. In a new interview, the War Dogs actor says he “felt extremely misrepresented.”

“Oh, I felt frickin’ helpless, I felt extremely misrepresented, I felt a little angry,” he recalled to 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!’”

The first line of the Esquire article reads, “You’re sitting across from Miles Teller at the Luminary restaurant in Atlanta and trying to figure out if he’s a dick.” Following multiple other uses of the word, the last line concludes he’ll “charm the world with his dickishness.”

Continuing his defense, Teller said, “I’d say that you get a little more guarded but I’m actually not. 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.”

Teller previously responded to the article shortly after its publication, tweeting, “[Esquire] couldn’t be more wrong. I don’t think there’s anything cool or entertaining about being a dick or an a–hole. Very misrepresenting.” His Fantastic Four costars Jamie Bell and Kate Mara also came to his defense, calling him “a great actor” and “a truly fantastic person.”