Miles Teller: “Whiplash” Helped Me Revive My Love for Acting

He’s slowly but surely becoming one of the key voices of his generation, and Miles Teller is thankful for his latest film “Whiplash.”

The “That Awkward Moment” hunk explained that his career felt stalled out when Damien Chazelle’s project showed up on his radar, and the rest is history.

Miles shared, "When I first read Whiplash, I was feeling dead inside. 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. I called my agent and said, 'This sucks.' He told me about Whiplash."

Teller continued, "I was in good shape from Divergent. Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash, told me, ‘Stop working out! Don’t go outside!’ He wanted me pale and doughy. This is the first movie where I shut myself off from the world. It was, by far, the hardest thing I’ve ever done."

And Miles’ friend/costar Shailene Woodley added, "I tried to talk to Miles when he was making Whiplash, and it was difficult even to find him."

Woodley also noted, "I would love for us to be a famous screen couple… like Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. I want to do a musical with him!"