Miles Teller Jokes About Tom Cruise & ‘High Gun’ In Monologue – Hollywood Life

Miles Teller has been using excessive off after the discharge of High Gun: Maverick again in Could — and naturally the film bought a point out in on Saturday Night time Stay. Throughout his first ever gig internet hosting the legendary weekend sketch program, Miles took to the stage to poke enjoyable at his function as Lt. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw in each his monologue and a sketch devoted to the wildly well-liked movie starring  Tom Cruise.

“This 12 months I used to be in a film known as High Gun: Maverick. What I beloved concerning the film is it actually appeared to drag individuals collectively — I imply it’s not every single day that you simply get a film that’s beloved by the army neighborhood and the homosexual neighborhood,” Miles joked as he launched the forty eighth season. The Whiplash actor made no secret of the truth that the internet hosting duties have been an honor — a sentiment just like these he’s expressed about showing alongside Dangerous Enterprise legend Tom.

“That labored out. It was additionally wonderful attending to work with Tom Cruise. That man is a legend. We each pushed ourselves to absolutely the restrict for this film…he did his personal stunts and I grew my very own mustache,” he added.

Miles has beforehand opened up about what it was like starring within the movie alongside Tom. “I used to be just a little apprehensive about entering into one thing that was sort of set as much as be this enormous factor,” he mentioned in a Could Zoom interview, per The Hindustan Occasions. “I’ve been in a few large films, however for essentially the most half I’ve tended to do some smaller scale issues. So, I used to be nervous about sort of lending myself to that world, nevertheless it’s one thing that I additionally was simply extremely proud and actually honored to be part of.”

He additionally didn’t shrink back from what it means when a movie icon chooses you for a task. “I imply, when Tom Cruise handpicks you to be his co-star in a film and to play the son of Goose, these are large sneakers to fill,” he  continued. “So I simply felt like if Tom thinks I’m the suitable man, then I feel I’m the suitable man too. Tom simply by no means stops working and he’s by no means actually even happy with good or nice. He places a lot time into these films that you simply see him in. And so his work ethic was one thing that I discovered actually inspiring.”

Miles defined that an motion film like Maverick additionally provides him a chance to be “excessive.” “I feel in my life I’m fairly chill,” the Struggle Canines star mentioned. “So, these films and sure performances, give me a chance to sort of go to the intense that you simply’re not in a position to go to in life. You’re in a position to do some issues via these scenes that if you happen to have been to do in actual life, individuals would say, ‘Oh my God! This man is so dramatic or this man is just too intense’. So I do are likely to gravitate in direction of these roles. I really like when the stakes are excessive, I actually take pleasure in films that aren’t afraid to sort of push the envelope just a little bit.”

Definitely, his first internet hosting gig on Saturday Night time Stay was excessive stakes, as nicely — and an enormous success so as to add to his resume.