Miles Teller Stopped Doing Press Profiles After Esquire Magazine Called Him ‘Kind of a Dick’: ‘It Felt Like Such a Violation’ and Was ‘So Mishandled’

By Zack Sharf

Zack Sharf

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Miles Teller made the press rounds at the Cannes Film Festival to promote James Gray’s competition entry “Paper Tiger,” in which he stars opposite Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson. But Teller is wary when it comes to interviews after he felt violated by an infamous 2015 Esquire profile that labeled him “kind of a dick” and claimed he would “charm the world with his dickishness.” The profile even started with the line: “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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