8/13/2023 0 Comments Miles teller firefighter movie![]() ![]() He has multiple scars on his face from the crash. In 2007, Teller was a passenger in a car that lost control at 80 mph (130 km/h) and flipped eight times. Subsequently, he attended the New York University Tisch School of the Arts there, he studied method acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and screen acting with Stonestreet Studios. He graduated from Lecanto High School in Lecanto, Florida. He also played baseball competitively and had dreams of turning professional. Growing up, he was involved with acting, was president of his high school's drama club, and played alto saxophone, drums, piano and guitar. ![]() Teller spent his early years in Pennsylvania and Delaware before his family moved to Citrus County, Florida, at age twelve. His paternal grandfather was of Russian-Jewish descent, and his ancestry also includes English and Irish forebears. Teller was born in Pennsylvania to parents Merry, a real estate agent, and Michael, a nuclear power plant engineer. ![]() On television, he has starred in the Amazon Prime Video crime drama Too Old to Die Young (2019) and the Paramount+ miniseries The Offer (2022). Teller gained wider success for starring in the action film Top Gun: Maverick (2022). He went on to star in the superhero film Fantastic Four (2015) and the biographical film War Dogs (2016). His starring role in the drama Whiplash (2014) served as his breakthrough and earned him praise. ![]() He made his feature film debut with the independent drama Rabbit Hole (2010), and gained recognition for his starring role in the coming-of-age film The Spectacular Now (2013) and the Divergent film trilogy (2014–2016), both opposite Shailene Woodley. It might just be a firefighter movie thing.Miles Teller (born February 20, 1987) is an American actor. Still, even he can’t keep himself from the occasional aerial glamour shot of the team, posing in formation on top of a mountain while guitars blare. Only the Brave feels like a film that would have made sense coming from Peter Berg or Michael Bay, but Kosinski mostly pulls back on the macho cheerleading to find something more objective, and ultimately, deeply emotional. Despite their title, these hotshots are anything but. Most of Marsh’s job involves watching the blaze from a distance, taking temperature and humidity readings, and checking the wind direction. There’s little in the way of minimalist architecture or light-up catsuits to be found among this grubby crew, but there’s a sense of quiet shared by all the films, a resistance to all-out bombast. The film is improbably directed by Joseph Kosinski, apparently putting his sci-fi auteur dreams on hold after the gorgeous but hollow Tron: Legacy and Oblivion. But Teller and Brolin lead the film with incredibly watchable naturalism that never descends into sentimentality. Connelly in particular, as Marsh’s loving but long-suffering wife, feels well-positioned to subvert many of the expectations around that kind of character … until she doesn’t. The cast, by the way, is incredibly stacked - Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Connelly, and Andie MacDowell all acquit themselves agreeably in roles that feel like they could have used a lot more screen time. Oftentimes it plays out like a condensed season of television, a format for which it might actually have been better suited, with its long, subtly rendered character arcs and ensemble cast. Only the Brave is meandering and picaresque, sometimes to its own detriment. Cue a predictable yet comforting redemption arc, from McDonough’s fast friendship with hazer turned roommate Chris (Taylor Kitsch) to the surrogate father he finds in Marsh, who we come to learn may not be that different from him. Meanwhile, young addict Brendan McDonough (Miles Teller) stumbles his way into fathering a child, and suddenly feeling the urge to step up and be responsible for her, arrives at the department looking for work. The film opens with them still uncertified and frustrated at their inability to stave off yet another fire. Led by their supervisor Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin), they became local heroes, but if you don’t know their story I’d advise against Googling it, or the GQ article the film is based on. Only the Brave is based on the true story of Prescott, Arizona’s Granite Mountain Hotshots, the first ever municipal fire crew to be certified as Hotshots (that is, the class of firefighter that deals on the ground with wildfires). Miles Teller on His New Movie, Superhero Franchises, and Being Likable (or Not) ![]()
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