Miles Teller’s performance in Whiplash (2014) as a prodigious jazz drummer bullied by his conductor was breathtaking. Made in less than three weeks and on a budget of just $3.3m, the Damien Chazelle-directed masterpiece won three Oscars and was nominated for two more. And though Teller himself was snubbed for Best Actor, few who have seen the film could argue that his powerful portrayal of the ambitious yet vulnerable Andrew Neiman was not central to its success.
But Teller’s career has often struggled to hit the heights expected of him. “If film stardom is a Monopoly board, then Miles Teller has just raced around it in double-time and set up camp on Mayfair,” wrote Tim Robey for the Telegraph in his Whiplash review. In reality, the chronic inconsistency of Teller’s filmography would be better represented by the chance pile.
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