Miles Teller took special care playing a real-life firefighter and a soldier
For any actor, playing a living, breathing person carries its own special weight. That goes double when you're chronicling the most traumatic moments in that person's life.
"If you take pride in what you do, you always have a bar you're trying to hit," Miles Teller said on a recent afternoon in Beverly Hills. "But playing a real person, there's an extra obligation."
Teller has been feeling that obligation a lot lately.
As it happens, this month the actor, who has starred in such films as "Rabbit Hole," "The Spectacular Now" and "Whiplash," portrays two real-life unsung heroes who persevere through trying ordeals in a pair of high-profile movies opening one week apart.
In the action drama "Only the Brave," which opened Friday, Teller stars as Brendan McDonough, a heroin addict who received a shot at redemption when he
