This weekend, the biographical crime comedy War Dogs hits theaters. The film stars Miles Teller and Jonah Hill as arms dealers David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli who end up getting a contract with the U.S. government to supply weapons to the Afghan military, despite only being in their early 20s. When it was first announced that a movie was going to be made about Packouz and Diveroli, Teller’s father encouraged Teller to get a role in the film.
“My dad actually sent me an email once he read that [director Todd Phillips’] company Green Hat had gotten the rights to this story,” Teller told BackstageOL’s Dave Morales. “He was like ‘Miles, tell your boy Todd,’ because Todd produced a film I was in about two years before. He’s like ‘Tell your boy Todd, you know, you gotta be in this movie, man. You’re perfect for it.’”
“Sure enough, I saw [Phillips] in a restaurant and I said, ‘Look, my dad said you gotta put me in this movie,” Teller said with a laugh.
Watch our complete interview with Teller and Hill below:
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