Name: Miles Teller on Why It's Important to Him to Work with Veterans
Uploaded: 2025-11-10T17:33:34.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Miles Teller on Why It's Important to Him to Work with Veterans' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-10. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Miles Teller on Why It's Important to Him to Work with Veterans' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-10. Transcript available.

you've had so many interesting experiences you got to work with tom cruise was
that pretty
fascinating did you get to meet him before you got to work with him and sorry
if some of this
seems like a little bit petty but i don't know anybody that ever met him oh
yeah no tom i mean
yeah tom's tom's great i flew it was this i'd worked with that director before
i had done two
movies with him i think at that point no i had done one movie with him at that
point um but yeah
i mean i flew uh i had to audition for it i think there was they were down to
like a couple guys
flew and you know did a yeah audition with tom he's he's like he's very disarming
i mean i but for
some reason i i didn't feel like i was going to be nervous around him i have
like obviously an immense
amount of respect for the guy but he's he's such like a consummate professional
and he is he's one
of our great great actors um and his filmography i think if you attach
commercial and critical i think
this run that he's you know went on multiple times for his career is going to
be very hard to to touch
um but yeah he's he really cares about the work and he labors over he labors
over the script i mean we
would go we would meet we would have a meeting or we're filming he's like all
right we're going to
meet we're going to talk about you know this scene that exists on page like 50
or something but you
always start page one scene one and you start from the very beginning and then
three hours later when
we've had all these side conversations about just different parts of the script
by the time you get
to the scene you met we're there to meet about it's like ah well it's time to
go we'll meet tomorrow
but nobody works harder uh he knows everybody's name um uh he's first one in
last one to leave
but that that movie i mean that movie yeah that movie took a a long time uh to
make everybody was so
committed and also like you have to work in part and parcel and in concert with
the navy you know i mean
navy doesn't stop being the navy so if we're filming on a carrier we're filming
it you know in top gun or
we're filming all these places these guys are actively you know training um non-stop
so uh yeah
it was a lot it was it was a lot to to kind of work out yeah so you're having
to like work like in
between certain days while they're doing stuff or at night while they're yeah
like i remember when we
were on the carrier we could maybe we had like you know uh two hour window for
something to be up on
on the top deck um but yeah that was yeah we're on the carrier for two weeks
and i remember i i walked
by this one sailor that's like one of my first few days being there and even
though you're on this
giant carrier like you feel like you're on a submarine because the hallways are
very cramped
everything is metal there's nothing for for company comfort there's nothing
extraneous like that is an
active carrier it's um it's a wartime you know carrier um but it's very a
weapon it's very it's a weapon
um i mean we're launching you know aircraft from it um and so but when you're
walking around i mean all
of the hallway everything is so tight even though it's this massive vessel and
i walked by this one
sailor and i was like hey i was like living the dream huh he just turns me and
he goes
nightmares are also dreams and he said it's so cold i was like that is we're on
the theodore roosevelt
yeah um but no i just i don't know i have so much um nightmares are also
nightmares are also dreams
yeah because i mean that's a good depend on what your job is on that carrier i
mean your job placement you
might be seven or eight you know decks below and you know just the nature of uh
operations sometimes
like you're kind of that's kind of your your territory oh yeah absolutely man
um do you start so much
respect for oh yeah when you think of the terrorist best what people go through
we're trying to maybe
have gary sinise come on i know he's he is there's nobody that's done more yeah
that guy is it's
truly been his like life's mission um yeah he's fantastic to support veterans
yeah absolutely because
it's not like the va like because i did this movie about guys coming home from
wars called thank
first service and it was based on this book um real guys and that's kind of
what you learn it's like the
va is not broken it's just overwhelmed um and so you know and for guys to kind
of unpack and our
writer director was telling me he's like you know miles we've known how to send
guys to war men and
women to war for centuries since the beginning of time we've known how to
create a soldier but we still
don't really know how to bring them back um and it is it's really it's really
complicated
those programs that are you know working for you know non-profit they can only
take so many people
funding is really important um and the use of people sorry go on no i was just
saying it's it's
really it's really tough and also just with mental health in general um the
amount of training that
it takes for somebody to be able to um appropriately deal with someone with you
know if it's ptsd if
it's bipolar if it's schizophrenia whatever it is it takes a really uh takes a
long time to train
somebody um and to be able to get them to sit with the person and be able to
potentially you know
change their meds a little bit somebody that they trust somebody who has those
skills um to deal with
it's it's very tough um and yeah that's actually something i'm uh yeah i have a
lot of advocacy
for i think and also when you talk to people i think most i think a lot of
people have somebody
you know in their family or with friends that are you know dealt with that and
it's it's it's just
yeah it's really tough um i think i have yeah just immense amount of empathy
and that stuff's always
you know it's more or less it always kind of some traumatic event happened at
some age and that leads
to um you know these these mental health issues yeah that's such a great
statement we don't know how
to bring these people home and then how much value like it you know even at a
governmental level how
much value you know should there be just as much of a training and untraining
program you know as much
as you're training people for military and for combat should there be just as
much of an untraining
and also these guys you know they the guys that they go to war with those are
the guys that
understand more than anybody what they went through but then you know they go
from being in you know
battalion and you know being those guys and then they come home and everybody
kind of disperses and
you know it's uh yeah it's it's tough well it's like you were saying earlier
just like being able
to be part of a group and have that you know yeah and then suddenly it's
different or suddenly
even if you're a shared life experience you're put on leave or something
because you're a mental
condition then that's got to be even scarier because now are you maybe
struggling but also
you're away from your group right and also each like each um you know depending
on what job you're
going for in the military you know infantry different uh branches um you know
you need it's a numbers
game we need numbers um at all times and so some of these you know some of the
boot camps are
you know x amount of weeks and it's like here you go and here's a gun and um
when you get more kind
of i guess uh tier one senior yeah where i'm just saying like our special
forces guys i mean those
those guys have been through you know uh a lot of training and they're they're
you're usually not
in those groups until you're you know you're certainly not 18 um as a navy seal
it takes you know
yeah a couple of years oh the last thing i was going to tell you so yeah i went
to the
venerable game but i saw these two there was two kids there and they were there
with their dad and
their dad had just gotten back from service he was in uh qatar and he and right
when i saw the kids
like oh dude my dad saw you perform in qatar i'd went over there and did just a
um a thing for the
military or like was it through uso or something different no it was like they
were doing like uh
something something for troops yeah the president was doing something over
there and they were doing
some troops thing but um but anyway it was just they're like oh dude our dad
and you could just
tell like i was like oh how long were you there for he's like i was there for a
year and it was just
like i don't know it's just interesting to see this moment and i was i was like
are you guys dad you're
glad are you are you guys glad your dad is home you know and you could just see
like i don't know
it's just you just see some of the sacrifice it was just a moment that i had to
witness like
kind of firsthand a little bit of like the sacrifice that absolutely that sons
deal with that fathers deal
with that people deal with to keep our country safe and uh yeah it's just
touching man yeah this
guy the guy that i played in uh thank you for service um andrew or adam schumann
um he you know
because people say you know thank you for service and a lot of the time people
say that sometimes to
just alleviate their own guilt of having not serve but you know i've heard guys
talk about it's weird
you're thanking me for something that hey i signed up for i wanted to do or you're
thanking me for
you don't even know what my job was it's just a complicated kind of decorative
term that we use
out of lack of knowing but he would say the thing that really broke him he was
you know filling up his
um uh you know his his truck uh with gas and you know his army the big red one
and you know guy saw
that and you know basically just kind of shook his hand and you know said like
welcome home you know
welcome home son and um you know glad you got home safe and that's you know it's
it's uh yeah it's
tough it's it's but you're that's we can do what we do because those men and
women are over there
doing you know oh yeah doing the dirty work i mean our job is built on the
freedom of speech you know
both of our jobs are built on it like it doesn't even exist if people uh if
people aren't uh making
the sacrifice for us um but yeah that would be great to be able to talk with gary
sinise i know
he does a lot with the with the for veterans and um yeah it's nice to just be
reminded it's nice to
be reminded of a space to another reason just to have gratitude for the things
we have going on
so it's like it's different parts of the like we're you know growing up in florida
i feel like
there's so many people that um you know had family members in the military um
but it's it's a lot more
socio like economic driven now to where the military it's it doesn't feel like
the entire country is
really a part of it and it's really happening in very specific pockets um so it's
kind of it'll be
interesting in the next like 25 years 50 years of who you kind of have to live
in these certain areas
to to have a relationship with somebody who's serving because that's what
personalizes it um
yeah that's a good point man you know during uh in ancient rome they used to
have the the
politicians were also on the battlefield which is pretty fascinating so it was
like the rules that
they were making if they were going to send people into battle they were going
to have to be
associated with those rules and i think it would be i mean who am i to say i
didn't serve but
it would be you know i think maybe some of the rules we would make might be
some of the choice
we would make might be a little bit different if it felt if you had skin in the
game yeah yeah i think
there's always some value in having skin in the game yeah i think that's just a
tricky thing
politics in general when you just can't recognize the um you know the the
elected officials and the
leaders you just feel like you cannot relate to them they can't relate to you
on any level
um and it feels like those margins are getting wider getting wider right