During an interview with movie critic Peter Travers for ABC News' "Popcorn With Peter Travers," Miles Teller revealed that his face was wounded and subsequently scarred during his young adulthood, which then affected his burgeoning acting career. When he was 20 years old and attending college, Teller revealed, he was injured in a serious car accident after his friend lost control of a car while driving the both of them at 80 mph. The car rolled eight times in total and ejected him fifty feet away, according to Teller's account. After being thrown from the vehicle, the actor ended up in such bad shape that his friend thought he might be dead. Fortunately, Teller survived the incident, albeit after sustaining some significant injuries to his face.
Following the accident, Teller underwent multiple painful surgeries to remove the scar tissue resultant from his wounds over the course of roughly four years. As it turns out, he still has some pieces of gravel embedded in his face, which his doctors said would cause even more damage if removed than if left alone.
For a while, Teller's appearance after the car accident stood in the way of his acting ambitions. "When I first started auditioning, people were straight up just like, 'Yeah, Miles is a good actor, [but it] doesn't make sense for this character to have scars,'" he said. "[The scars] used to be really bad."
Soon, however, one director took a chance on Teller when others would not, putting him on a career trajectory he maintains today.
