Miles Teller Arrested For Public Drunkenness, ‘Whiplash’ Star Was ‘Uncooperative’ With Police

Actor Miles Teller landed himself in some big trouble over the weekend after becoming uncooperative with police while drunk, leading to an arrest.

According to TMZ, Teller, 30, was partying with a group of guys in San Diego when a cop noticed he was having trouble standing on the sidewalk. Sources told the website that he was uncooperative while being questioned by police, lost his balance and fell into a traffic lane.

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He was reportedly taken to a volunteer detox center where cops in the city take those who are drunk so they can sleep off their state of inebriation for four hours, but Teller reportedly refused to go, and when cops took him there anyway, he still didn’t cooperate and was eventually rejected by the center’s staff. He was then arrested for being drunk in public, a misdemeanor offense, and was in jail for four hours before he was released without bail.

No other information has been revealed at this time about the incident, and Teller has not posted to his Twitter account since June 12.

Teller, who has taken on roles in several films, including “Footloose,” “Project X,” and the “Divergent” trilogy, is well known for his roles in “The Spectacular Now,” “Whiplash,” and “That Awkward Moment.” In “Spectacular Now,” he portrayed a hard-partying high school senior, and the performance earned him a Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

Teller also won award nominations for “Whiplash,” including a Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Actor, the Satellite Award for Best Actor—Motion Picture, and a BAFTA Rising Star Award.

However, despite an impressive career, Teller has become known in Hollywood for a somewhat less positive attitude, after an interview with Esquire Magazine in 2015, which was later slammed for his coming off as someone who was incredibly cocky, as well as his slamming his “Whiplash” director Damien Chazelle for replacing him in “La La Land” with Ryan Gosling.

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“He says director Damien Chazelle offered him the part when they were filming ‘Whiplash,’ way before it became an Oscar-winning hit… He explains that he almost passed up the chance to be in ‘Arms and the Dudes’ because it would have conflicted with ‘La La Land,’” the article stated. “ ‘And then I got a call from my agent, saying. ‘Hey, I just got call from Lionsgate. Damien told them that he no longer thinks you’re creatively right for the project. He’s moving on without you.’ So he sent him a text: What the f--- bro?”

Chazelle later responded to Teller’s comment, saying that his reasons for firing Teller were more about the uncertainty that had cloaked the film for so long before it was finally made.

“I probably just won’t say anything about anything he said in the interview,” Chazelle said during the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. “Except what I will say is that casting of this movie during the six years it took to get made went through lots of permutations, and it’s true there was a moment where Emma Watson and Miles Teller were doing it. And neither of those casting things wound up lasting or working out. But it was part of the up and down of this movie: that we were about to make it, we were about to not make it, about to make it, about to not make it.”