![]() I would be the dude playing the guitar and singing. Lynyrd Skynyrd "Simple Man." So are you the guy banging on the bongos? Tracy Chapman, "Give Me One Reason." Those were the popular ones. ![]() We used to play "Gimme the Beat Boys." That's a good one. It was a very small town in Florida where you kind of make your own fun. My friends to this day are like, "We had no idea that you were getting straight A's when you were out partying with us!" I guess I had balance, and that's not something that Sutter Keely had. We'd be drinking at the party and all that, but I also was getting 4.0s and was in National Honors Society and took AP classes. Me and my buddies would throw the parties. I always knew I was going to go to college. Without the complete disregard for moving past high school. What was it like growing up in small-town Florida? Were you a Sutter Keely type? When I was in high school our band name was The Mutes because we were playing the homecoming day parade, and the generators on our float went out so there was no sound. And in California, I still have my drum set, and me and the buddies will get on it and jam out. But no, I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school. My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. I think my mom always wanted like a Partridge Family kind of thing because we all played instruments. But it was all fun, man! Did you ever Jackson 5 it and form a family band? In middle school I was in marching band, which can be fairly uncool, I guess. That was not something that I thought was uncool. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home and my sister Dana would be playing the clarinet or playing the piano, and I would play the saxophone, my other sister would be singing, my mom would be singing. Media Platforms Design Team Like your character in Whiplash, you grew up playing drums-and sax, actually. In the best morning croak he could muster (not bad), Teller caught me up on these latest achievements-and fessed up to his Sutter Keely qualities and how he wooed his girlfriend, model Keleigh Sperry, on the dance floor. He's also working on Chazelle's much buzzed-about next project, a studio-era-type movie musical called La La Land, co-starring Emma Watson. ![]() Fantastic in the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. He stars as a jazz drummer in director Damien Chazelle's Sundance opener Whiplash and plays Mr. This season, Teller's dance card is full. He's the kind of guy who has "buddies" in lieu of "friends," who scripts himself as the punch line of his own stories, and who doesn't try to cover up an obvious hangover when I call. Teller is serious about not being too serious, which might have something to do with his brush with death seven years ago, when he went flying out of a friend's car window and wound up with 20 staples to his shoulder and severe facial scarring. ![]() It's not surprising the friends have good professional chemistry (Woodley recently called Teller the George Clooney to her Julia Roberts ) there's a similar sense of honesty and individuality to their work, and like Woodley, Teller is part of a wave of young film actors scrapping the Hollywood mold in favor of decidedly keeping it real. But the name most often connected to Teller's is Shailene Woodley, whom he starred alongside as the alcoholic good-times high schooler Sutter Keely in The Spectacular Now and again as Woodley's dickish nemesis, Peter, in Divergent. If you don't know the 27-year-old actor by name, you might think of him as that guy on the rise who reminds you of-and here is where people have gotten creative-a young John Cusack (the most common so far), a pre-pandemonium Shia LaBeouf, or a modern-day Elvis Presley (that one's his own suggestion).
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