Miles Teller is suddenly everywhere. He’s been on the scene for over half a decade, but it seems like after his impressive turn as an ambitious drummer in 2014’s “Whiplash,” the 29-year-old actor became a brand name overnight.
His latest project, “War Dogs,” opens this Friday, and though Teller has prestigious films, bro comedies and a superhero movie under his belt, he’s a long way from being totally established in Hollywood. Luckily, he can take a page from the books of either of his “War Dogs” co-stars, Jonah Hill and Bradley Cooper, who know a thing or two breaking their own molds and demanding to be taken seriously.
Here are Miles Teller, Jonah Hill and Bradley Cooper’s movies plotted on a comedy to drama (left to right) spectrum over the years (bottom to top).
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Miles Teller
Shortly after graduating from New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts in 2009, Teller appeared opposite Nicole Kidman in “Rabbit Hole” (for which she’d receive an Oscar nomination). Since that strong start, he’s most often played the role of slightly jerkish, bumbling dude, with a notable exception in “Whiplash.”
Rabbit Hole 86%
Footloose 69%
Project X 28%
21 and Over 26%
The Spectacular Now 93%
Whiplash 94%
That Awkward Moment 23%
Two Night Stand 39%
Divergent 41%
Insurgant 28%
Fantastic Four 9%
Get a Job 5%
Allegiant 13%
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Jonah Hill
Hill started out as the funny fat kid, with slight variations. He was nerdy and uptight in “Accepted” and then outrageously inappropriate in “Superbad.” But when he landed a role in “Moneyball” and received an Academy Award nomination, people started taking him more seriously. Since then, Hill has alternated between more respected films (“Wolf of Wall Street” and “Hail Caesar”) and the more comedic material he was originally known for (“21 Jump Street” and “Sausage Party”).
I Heart Huckabees 62%
The 40-Year-Old Virgin 85%
Click 32%
Accepted 37%
Grandma’s Boy 16%
10 Items or Less 63%
Rocket Science 84%
Knocked Up 90%
Evan Almighty 23%
Superbad 88%
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 74%
Strange Wilderness 2%
Horton Hears a Who! 79%
Forgetting Sarah Marshall 85%
Just Add Water* 30%
Night at the Museum:
Battle of the Smithsonian 44%
The Invention of Lying 58%
Funny People 68%
Cyrus 80%
How to Train Your Dragon 98%
Get Him to the Greek 72%
Megamind 73%
Moneyball 94%
The Sitter 21%
21 Jump Street 85%
The Watch 17%
Django Unchained 88%
This Is the End 83%
Wolf of Wall Street 77%
The Lego Movie 96%
How to Train Your Dragon 2 91%
22 Jump Street 84%
True Story 44%
Hail Caesar 85%
Sausage Party 82%
Bradley Cooper
A pretty boy who got his original start in TV (“Sex and the City,” “Alias”) Cooper soon got typecast as the attractive asshole, whether playing the jerkish fiance in “Wedding Crashers” or the cheating husband in “He’s Just Not That Into You.” He leveraged that persona in “The Hangover” (and its sequels) to become a leading man, finally getting top billing on movies like “Limitless” before making the transition into more prestigious films. He received Academy Award nominations for “Silver Linings Playbook,” “American Hustle” and “American Sniper” and is now definitely your mom’s biggest celebrity crush.
Wet Hot American Summer 32%
Changing Lanes 77%
My Little Eye 67%
Bending All the Rules* 5%
Wedding Crashers 75%
Failure to Launch 24%
The Comebacks 9%
Older Than America 48%
The Rocker 40%
The Midnight Meat Train 72%
Yes Man 46%
He’s Just Not That Into You 40%
The Hangover 79%
Case 39 22%
All About Steve 7%
New York, I Love You 36%
Valentine’s Day 18%
Brother’s Justice 0%
The A-Team 47%
Limitless 70%
The Hangover Part II 33%
The Words 24%
Hit and Run 50%
The Place Beyond the Pines 80%
Silver Linings Playbook 92%
The Hangover Part III 20%
American Hustle 93%
Guardians of the Galaxy 91%
Serena 17%
American Sniper 72%
Aloha 19%
Burnt 29%
Joy 61%
10 Cloverfield Lane 90%