Miles Teller Is Finally a Sex Symbol

“I do know that there’s nothing good-looking about me,” Miles Teller instructed Vogue Italy in 2015.

And within the decade or in order that Teller has been a film star, individuals have usually agreed.

“He’s a surprisingly ordinary-­trying baby-faced man who charmed his approach out of the manatee-infested Accomplice backwater of Citrus County, Florida” a Vulture profile reported in 2014. The Guardian described him as “sleepy” trying. To Roger Ebert.com he’s merely “not conventionally glamorous.”

Teller’s look has been dissected—by the media and by himself—with a ruthlessness that’s normally reserved for well-known ladies. Teller has performed main males in two-to-four films a 12 months since 2013. He has been a Marvel hero, a firefighter, and a staggering variety of douche bros—all archetypes related to beauty. He’s presently starring in The Provide on Paramount Plus in a task that initially went to Armie Hammer. And nonetheless, even Miles Teller isn’t positive if Miles Teller is de facto sizzling.

“This dude is so ugly! How does he get fucking components?” Teller mentioned, parroting his haters in an Esquire profile in 2015. “Nicely, he isn’t, like, historically good-looking, however . . .” Later he instructed Playboy that he’s used to studying tweets evaluating his face to “a foot” or to Ted Cruz. At any level in Teller’s decade-plus of stardom, social media photographs of him have normally been garlanded with inches and toes of feedback that add up, basically, to “…Him?”

That’s altering now. The Miles Teller fandom—individuals who have had a deep affection and inexplicable animal attraction to Miles Teller for years—are being overwhelmed by panting, mouth-frothing band wagoners. It’s a story of muscular tissues, mustache, and and angst. 

The shift occurred this month, with Teller’s function as Lieutenant Bradley Bradshaw, name signal “Rooster,” in High Gun: Maverick. Choosing up greater than 30 years after High Gun, the film has been a field workplace sensation and a triumph of army propagandism with a near-perfect rating on Rotten Tomatoes. 

Alongside the iron cheekbones and jawlines of Tom Cruise, Glen Powell, and John Hamm, Teller has emerged because the film’s main intercourse image. His gigantic face has taken over timelines and feeds. His mustache, which is the kind that may provoke mockery if it was on one other man’s face, is inspiring odes in video kind. Everybody onscreen appears to be like stellar, with their shining aviator glasses, blockbuster grooming routines, and flattering backdrop of blue sky. However they’re fashions—good, untouchable. Teller, along with his means to crumple in misery or swell with bravado, is the heartthrob.

In a scene that alludes to the unique’s iconic volleyball sequence, fighter pilots play soccer on the seaside, nimbly treading the surf glazed in sweat and California solar. It’s a buffet of (largely) male our bodies. Numerous fan-made movies characteristic Teller’s second within the soccer scene, his torso ripping in a half-erotic, half-goofy dance. Montages of Teller in High Gun have gone viral on Tiktok, set to the Oscar successful ballad “Take My Breath Away” from the unique film. Even Teller’s spouse, Keleigh Teller, bought in on it, making a fan-style video of Teller footage with the caption, “We’re all Staff Rooster right here…thirst on.”