Miles Teller & Elizabeth Olson Dissect Influencers, Life & Rom-Coms
I bet you’ll get a wax someday. Statue. Sorry. He’s like Alcatraz, but for but for influencers. I don’t have an issue with influencers. Let that be known. Congratulations on the film. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you. And for a film that’s so funny. You managed to pack it with a lifetime of emotions as actors. How was that process for you both? That’s a good way to phrase. I haven’t heard that. The lifetime of emotions. I mean the stakes even I am going to steal her is is very funny but you still have to take the circumstances seriously and it is for these characters it’s it’s everything you know they love this woman immensely and they kind of get pitted against each other and there’s some high jinks and there’s some screw ball comedy elements to it but it’s incredibly grounded if I read this script and I felt like it just lacked any real sincerity without taking itself too seriously then I wouldn’t have been interested I think Reese Witherspoon recently said there’s been a real decline line in romcoms and maybe that’s what it’s missing. Well, she needs to make some more. She definitely does need to make some more. Yeah, you got to contribute. Like you said, like having that balance of having that real balance of like being funny without being too funny or like like you said, do you have any favorite romcoms growing up? I guess growing up I I really loved My Best Friend’s Wedding and Pretty Woman and Bridget Jones as I got older when that was released. I loved that film. They’ve just unveiled a statue of Bridget Jones. Leave her. Maybe we’ll get a statue. Yeah, I that would be scary. Boy can dream. I bet you’ll get a wax someday. Statue. Sorry. I don’t know. Maybe I’ve already had a wax today. Do you have any favorite romcoms? I love Tom Hanks in in this genre in general. Well, 10 Things I Hate About You I thought was really great. And Highf Fidelity was one that just came to mind. One of my favorite scenes is the archive tunnels. If you were to visit an archive tunnel in real life and look at certain points of your career, maybe days on set, what ones would you look back on? Personally, I don’t think I would have too many films in there. But to answer your question, it’s the work archive tunnel. Sorry. I do remember Foot Loose being making a big impact on me and that feeling very special and surreal because the first play I did in high school, I played Willard when I was like 16 or 17. And so to be on set and have a camera and people be saying, “All right, Willard.” I was like, “Heck yeah, I am Willard. I’ve been Willard twice.” How long had you been working when you did that film? Two. That was my second year of So there’s also like that I think I I immediately think of earlier jobs just because there’s such a purity to not knowing how the machine of releasing something works. Night shoots are fun. Yeah. Everything’s really fun. you know, you don’t have like responsibilities on the weekend cuz you’re a kid. I mean, like a young adult. And uh so I think about Martha Marcia and Marlene and how freeing that felt cuz there’s just no expectations and it was such a young crew. Everyone was like pretty close out of college. The oldest crew member was 30. We were just fooling around. We had so much fun on the weekends. Everything seems better when you’re younger though. It’s always fresher, isn’t it? I don’t know if I fully agree with that, but there is something cuz I really enjoy getting older. The people we become hopefully are better versions of ourselves than the people we were, but there is something to be said about first experiences that you that you just can’t get to do again. Yeah. Now, obviously, the whole film is built around these different worlds, these eternities. I’m sure everyone’s asked you what your ideal eternity would be. What would be your hell? Mine would be like like whisper eternity. I just I can’t stand when people are whispering all the time. It makes me insane. I was whispering this morning on a radio show just to try it out because that was an option for like what you would have to do for a turn is whisper. So you were you were solo for that interview. If you were if you were there I would have joined us with me. Mine would be some version of like a concrete jungle but you know that there is something outside but you just can’t go to it or see it. And then everyone’s just like content creators, not interacting with each other, but just interacting to all the people watching that they think. You’re describing what I’m saying is like Alcatraz, but for but for influencers. But for not I I don’t have an issue with influencers. I don’t like the idea of people not interacting with each other in real space. Yeah, I don’t have an issue with influencers. Let that be known. Thanks. Now, Joan obviously is a massive Dean Martin fan and she almost gets to meet her idol. Who would be the idol that you would look out for in the afterlife? Dian Katon. I never got to meet her in this life. Jerry Garcia. Chat with that dude or just listen. Just have him play. Oh, but it’s been lovely to meet you both. I honestly It’s one of my favorite films of the year. Thank you. Congratulations to you both. Lovely to meet you. Thank you. [Music]
In our full interview for their new movie Eternity, the two stars get into a hilarious debate about modern culture and influencers, leading to Miles coining the perfect term for this specific nightmare: “Alcatraz for influencers.”
But that’s not all. Miles also delivers a brutal hot take on Reese Witherspoon and the decline of rom-coms, and they both look back on the early roles that defined their careers.
Eternity is out in UK cinemas from 5th December!
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