Miles Teller seeks to make a good impression during his first day on a movie set

Miles Teller strives to make a good impression on his first day on a movie set.

The 38-year-old actor has established himself as a major Hollywood star with roles in films such as Top Gun: Maverick but always feels he has to prove himself when working with new directors.

Speaking to Collider, Miles said: "On that first day, if I haven't worked with that director before or those producers... you want to show them: I can do this whole movie. I'm so prepared.

"And I have to remind myself, you just have to play the truth of this one scene. You don't need to try and show all the different colours. But the first couple of days on any movie, I feel like I'm going to f*** up – or, not that I'm going to f*** up, but did I prepare as much as I could have? That feeling never goes away."

Miles has served as an executive producer on flicks such as The Gorge and Eternity and he relished having a role in the development process.

He said: "I'm at a point now where I'll get on things early, and, as a producer, I can develop things.

"Now, whether or not I end up shooting all of those things, who knows? But I really enjoy the development process... and, yeah, there are some projects that maybe they're not a studio project, and they really need that kind of push early on.

"If I'm working on something, I'm passionate about it. So if I can help get the pieces together, if I can help try to find some financing for us, then that's great.

"There will be at least one or two projects coming up where I'll be a capital 'P' producer, and those are the ones I'm really looking forward to. I love championing projects and filmmakers. It's great to be in that position."

Teller plays the role of Larry Cutler in the romantic comedy Eternity – which centres on Joan's (Elizabeth Olsen) choice whether to spend eternity in the afterlife with either Larry or her first love Luke (Callum Turner), who died during war, and explained that the film's emotional pull attracted him to the project.

The Divergent star said: "I always tend to gravitate towards projects that really kind of pull me in emotionally.

"I felt immensely for Larry and this couple when I was reading this script. It had been a minute since I had done some comedy... This one, it was very character-driven. And I think romantic comedies, when they're done well, give the audience everything.

"They make you laugh. They make you maybe cry. This is not a movie compiled from a bunch of one-liners. There's the funniest version of this movie – but I don't think we were interested in that."