“War Dogs” star Miles Teller has revealed that he almost never made it as a big Hollywood actor, but not for lack of talent. He was involved in a serious car crash that nearly claimed his life, and thus left his face badly scarred. As he told The Guardian in 2016, he was a passenger in a car with friends in 2007 when it skidded off the road at 80mph and flipped eight times. He was thrown 30 feet from the car and knocked unconscious.
“Everything was fine except for my face,” he told the outlet, noting that doctors told him, under normal circumstances, he’d be dead. Speaking with ABC News, he said the crash left him with facial scars and gravel still embedded in his face to this day, along with a broken wrist and 20 staples holding his shoulder together.
Luckily, after playing opposite Oscar winner Nicole Kidman in “Rabbit Hole,” his scars proved an asset for other roles, as it did in 2013’s “The Spectacular Now” where a character is hit by a car, and “Whiplash” which also includes a collision scene where Teller’s car rolls with him inside it.
While the scars from the 2007 crash are slowly healing with laser treatment, it would seem car accidents, and facial trauma, would turn up in his life again years later.
Nicki
