Miles Teller is still not feeling fantastic about a 2015 magazine profile of him.

More than a decade after a viral Esquire interview referred to him as “kind of a d–k,” the Fantastic Four alum revealed how it led him to stop doing those kind of longform profiles altogether. 

“That was so mishandled,” Miles told Indiewire at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival in an interview published May 19. “The reason why I have not done profiles is because I said, ‘Wow, if I’m not doing this interview on camera, this person can misquote things or put things out of order or say things that didn’t happen.'”

According to the Emmy nominee—at Cannes with his new movie Paper Tiger—the published profile “felt like such a violation of what actually transpired” during the interview. 

As a result, Miles, 39, made the decision to no longer agree to be interviewed for profiles. He recalled telling his team, “Guys, I don’t think I’m doing this again, because I’m reading this and this doesn’t sound like me to me. This is not life, so why would I ever want to be a part of something where they can just put that in?”