LECANTO, Fla. — Lecanto Excessive College school and college students had a really particular visitor on Friday — alumni and actor, Miles Teller.
In a packed auditorium at Lecanto Excessive College, the present crop of Panthers college students welcome Teller house.
Teller returned to his alma mater for a scholar meeting to have a good time the naming of the college’s theater in his personal title.
“I assume it was good to know I’m nonetheless common with the youth,” Teller mentioned.
Teller walked out to thundering applause on the very stage he as soon as carried out on as a scholar at Lecanto Excessive College. And now, 20 years later, it has been named in his honor.
“I used to be simply within the dressing room earlier tonight and I used to be having all of those reminiscences,” mentioned Teller, who graduated in 2005. “I imply, that’s the place I bought able to go on and carry out. So, you assume actors come from possibly sure drama excessive faculties which have performing arts faculties which have some huge cash put in this system. We simply did it based mostly on ardour.”
It’s that keenness that drove Teller to pursue appearing. Having starred in his highschool’s rendition of “Footloose” the place he performed Willard Hewitt.
It was a task he wold additionally play on the silver display screen. To acknowledge Teller and his achievements, Lecanto Excessive College introduced the dedication of the Miles Teller Theatre on the Curtis Peterson Auditorium.
“Any further, anybody who performs on this stage can start dreaming their very own desires and should turn out to be the subsequent Hollywood celebrity,” mentioned Dr. Scott Hebert, superintendent of Citrus County Colleges.
And that’s not all. Teller and his spouse — Keleigh Teller — introduced a $50,000 donation to the Citrus County Schooling Basis through the meeting.
“There’s children which are going to highschool right here which are really homeless which are dwelling within the woods who had been deserted by their mother and father,” Teller mentioned. “It’s a horrible circumstance, dangerous hand to be dealt. And so any time I believe you possibly can assist individuals which are underprivileged, everyone ought to have a proper to an training and clear garments and meals.”
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