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Topics: Celebrity, Miles Teller, Health, Film
Joshua Nair
Topics: Celebrity, Miles Teller, Health, Film
It's fair to say that Miles Teller is one of the biggest names in Hollywood nowadays.
From Whiplash to War Dogs, to Top Gun: Maverick - the actor has been part of some of the more memorable films in the past decade or so.
But while you may appreciate his acting or range of roles, you may not have noticed a certain facial feature of his.
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Teller has scars on a part of his face because of something that happened when the American actor was just 20.
While he was a college student in 2007, he was a passenger in a car crash on the way home from a music festival that left him with some nasty facial injuries.
Opening up to ABC in 2016, he recalled: “My buddy lost control of my car going 80 miles per hour.
“We flipped eight times. I got ejected out the window. The car landed and I was just laying, like, 50 feet from the car, unconscious, covered in blood. My buddy thought I was dead.”
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He said that the car flew over three lanes while he flew out of the window.
18 years on, the actor still sports the scars, as well as two pieces of gravel embedded in his cheeks, which were left to avoid further scarring.
The actor said that the aftermath of the crash was also 'very painful' when speaking to Esquire in 2015, and added in a separate interview with The Guardian a year later: “Everything was fine except for my face.”
Teller suffered a broken wrist and needed to have 20 staples put in his shoulder afterwards as well.
He feared soon after that it would be difficult to land film roles because higher-ups wouldn't think the scars would 'make sense' in line with the characters.
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But there was one director that didn't care, and gave him his breakout role.
Director John Cameron Mitchell cast Teller opposite the likes of Nicole Kidman and Dianne Wiest in Rabbit Hole in 2010, as the actor revealed: “[Mitchell] was like, ‘I love [the scars]. It tells a secret.'”
Obviously, he would go on to have a successful career in Hollywood, which is still going on, as he is set to star in upcoming Michael Jackson biopic, Michael.
As for Teller's buddies from the car crash, it looks like they are no longer on the best terms, as he explained what happened in his interview with Esquire.
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He recalled: "I was racking up all these medical bills, so we had to sue his insurance because he was driving.
“It’s not like we’re suing HIM. We’re suing his insurance. He comes to me, he’s like, ‘Miles, I don’t know if we can be friend when my parents’ insurance premiums are going to go up.’ I just sat with that for, like, 24 hours, and after that I was like, ‘Man, f*ck you. I’ve never made you feel bad for this. For you to make me feel guilty and make me feel like you’re the victim here, that’s really f*cked up.'”