I interviewed Miles Teller and Jai Courtney for one of the Divergent movies (‘memba them?) and asked them “What’s the next big thing you have coming up?” To which Teller immediately replied, “My dick!” https://t.co/0kQfv8JDmz
— Jim Vejvoda (@JimVejvoda) May 21, 2026
Miles Teller claims he swore off press profiles after feeling “violated” by a 2015 Esquire cover story that labeled him as “kind of a dick.”
“That was so mishandled. The reason why I have not done profiles is because I said, ‘Wow, if I’m not doing this interview on camera, this person can misquote things or put things out of order or say things that didn’t happen.’ It felt like such a violation of what actually transpired. I told my team, ‘Guys, I don’t think I’m doing this again, because I’m reading this and this doesn’t sound like me to me. This is not life, so why would I ever want to be a part of something where they can just put that in?’ So it’s unfortunate that being a good person, that doesn’t sell. People want to click on the negativity. If you go to bed and put your head on your pillow and how you treat people truly, that’s what matters. That [2015] interview was like 12 years ago.”
He added, “The actors, the directors, the crew, the producers, you can’t hide who you are when you’re on set.”
After this, journalist Jim Vejvoda recounted an awkward press tour moment where Miles responded to a question with “My dick!”
The original 2015 ONTD posts here and here.
Read Notorious Celebrity Interviews: Miles Teller for Esquire 2015 (An ONTD Original) here.
