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Downingtown’s Miles Teller blasts Esquire after unflattering article

“Divergent” star Miles Teller is not too happy about his feature in Esquire magazine. On Wednesday, the magazine tweeted a link to the story along with a short description: “Miles Teller is on a quest for greatness (with a bit of d--kishness too).”

"Divergent" star Miles Teller is not too happy about his feature in Esquire magazine. On Wednesday, the magazine tweeted a link to the story along with a short description: "Miles Teller is on a quest for greatness (with a bit of d---ishness too)."

Only, Teller, a Downingtown native who made his feature film debut in 2010 alongside Nicole Kidman in "Rabbit Hole," doesn't feel he was accurately portrayed in the piece. And he let the publication know.

In a tweet, Teller responded to Esquire's tweet saying they "couldn't be more wrong. I don't think there's anything cool or entertaining about being a d--- or an a---hole. Very misrepresenting."

The piece in question was published Wednesday morning alongside a photo spread in which Teller is posed fully dressed in some sort of motel room with a nude woman strewn throughout the images. In the story, the author introduces readers to her subject saying, "You're sitting across from Miles Teller at the Luminary restaurant in Atlanta and trying to figure out if he's a d---," thus setting the tone for the rest of the piece. Ultimately, she decides he is…but with a sort of added charm.

An especially excruciating passage from Esquire's Teller story reads:

After the waitress leaves, shrugging off his comment about the highball glass, you ask him about his hair. He's brought up how nice it is in more than one interview. It's a little defensive, like maybe he's making up for not being the best-looking, or sometimes even the third-best-looking, guy in any given movie he's in. "I was thinking about that today, how I probably think I'm better-looking than the public thinks I am," he says with a laugh, like it's funny that he's willed himself into a higher tier of male beauty through limitless confidence. "I was in one of these forums about a film I did, and it's like, 'This dude is so ugly! How does he get f---ing parts?' 'Well, he's not, like, traditionally handsome, but . . .' And that's kind of what it is. Maybe it's because I came from a small town, but I always did well for myself."

You take stock. The nose is crooked, the eyelids fleshy, the chin soft, the cheeks mottled with flush.

Following Teller's blatantly dissatisfied reaction to the Esquire feature, members of the "Fantastic Four" cast jumped in to defend their costar.

Teller's grandma aka @MupTheQueen even hopped to his defense. She tweeted: