Miles Teller is a duck-hunter: Ive always had a respect for guns

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Ordinarily, I find Miles Teller somewhat attractive. I feel like I’m confessing something incredibly shameful by writing that. It’s true, though. He has an awful personality, but there’s something about his appearance – he’s really tall, he’s got that smirky, confident look, and he normally has great hair – that I find attractive. But these photos? No. Miles went blonde about a month back – he’s filming a movie where he plays a real guy, a blondie, so Miles is trying to be authentic. He was not meant to be a blonde though. It doesn’t work at all and it’s killing whatever vague affection I had for him. Now he looks like a serial killer! Yikes.

Anyway, Miles and Jonah Hill are promoting their film, War Dogs, which I do sort of want to see. They were (type)cast as douchebag bros who gamed the Pentagon bidding system to become major arms dealers. On that note, several media outlets asked Miles and Jonah what they themselves think about gun control and arms dealing. As it turns out, Miles is pretty pro-gun because he’s a hunter. Huh.

“You can see it as a dollar sign, and that’s what these guys did,” Miles Teller told Vulture at the premiere. “Even though these guys are dealing with $300 million contracts, and 100,000 rounds of AK47 ammo, to them it could have been Funyuns; it could have been Doritos. They were able look at it as a way to make money, and we are just exploiting a loophole.” Set in what the film calls “Dick Cheney’s America,” Teller plays Packouz, the workhorse in the partnership, with Jonah Hill as Diveroli, a bro partial to gold jewelry, black tracksuits, and Scarface references.

But the two actors have a different relationship with guns themselves. “I’ve pretty much always felt the same way about guns. I’m not a big fan of them,” Jonah Hill said. “I think the movie is really good at pointing out how ridiculously easy it was for these two guys to become gunrunners the way our government is currently structured in that world.” In terms of gun control, Hill said he’d like to see more oversight and “just way more heavy screening, and making it harder overall for people to get guns.”

Teller is a little more comfortable with guns. “I’ve always had a respect for guns,” he said. “Once I got into a pretty rural town of Florida, it was not uncommon for your buddy’s dad to have a gun rack.” He said that he would be going duck hunting soon. “I’m going hunting this fall in North Dakota, so I’ll have my hunter’s safety [license] and everything. If you are going to use a weapon, just make sure that you’ve passed all the tests.”

[From Vulture]

Some people are anti-hunting across the board, and some people view gun issues solely through the lens of “hunters’ rights.” I’m neither – I grew up in an area with a thriving hunting culture, and I think people should have the right to hunt ducks and deer and whatever, just as long as they follow the rules and get licenses and everything. I also think the hunters’ rights issues should be treated as a separate issue from the larger conversation about gun control and arms dealing because if you’re a hunter and your argument is that you need twenty-five 9MMs and your AK-47 because you’re a hunter, you’re full of s—t.

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Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

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