In 2015, Esquire published a profile of Miles Teller that opened with the journalist interviewing the actor “trying to figure out if he’s a dick.” More than a decade later, Teller is still thinking about it. The article, he recently told IndieWire at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, led to an intentional step away from written profiles. “That was so mishandled,” Teller told IndieWire in Cannes. “The reason why I have not done profiles is because I said, ‘Wow, if I’m not doing this interview on