Miles Teller: Comics didn’t speak to me

Miles Teller didn’t get much out of reading comics as a child.

The 28-year-old actor will soon be seen as Reed Richards/ Mister Fantastic in Marvel’s Fantastic Four. But ironically, the star wasn’t an avid comic book fan growing up.

“I think I collected comic books at one point in my life just because I thought that was a phase I’d go through as a boy. But it was more of a collectable thing, I didn’t really get much out of reading them,” he admitted to British newspaper The Independent. “But the comic book format didn’t really speak to me.”

However Miles couldn’t resist the opportunity to work with his co-stars Jamie Bell, Michael B. Jordan and Kate Mara when the reboot film version came about. The stars have been billed as the greatest ensemble of today’s young actors and Miles admits the producers made interesting choices.

“I think I speak for all us that I was very excited by the cast. Hopefully, we’ll be making these films for many years. I think the casting of it was, yes, by far one of the most interesting parts about it,” he continued. “I don’t think people saw us individually as these characters at all. But they wanted to cast actors that maybe had a footing in dramatic acting, and I think that’s served us well for the story.”

The Whiplash star hasn’t always enjoyed working on big budget films. Miles appears in the Divergent series alongside Kate Winslet, Shailene Woodley and Theo James but admitted in the past that he didn’t feel passionate about the project.

“I didn’t have an interesting part, and I’d taken the film for business reasons,” he told W Magazine. “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.”