Actor Miles Teller (Pennsylvania, 39 years old), known for films such as Whiplash, Top Gun: Maverick and, most recently, the Michael biopic, has just significantly increased his wealth, although, according to him, not enough to retire from acting. And the interpreter’s canned cocktail company has been acquired for $325 million. In 2019, Teller purchased a minority stake in The Long Drink Company, maker of a sparkling alcoholic beverage with fruit flavors. This week, the entire Finnish company has been sold to the Mark Anthony Group, the alcoholic beverage corporation and creator of White Claw, one of the best-known brands of hard seltzer. Now the actor will take a percentage of the million-dollar sale, although the exact figure is not known: “I don’t usually talk about figures,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. «They taught me that talking about that is not in good taste. The only thing I will say is that I do not plan to retire from acting anytime soon,» he added in statements to the media specialized in film. Teller is one of the actors who in recent years have decided to found, invest in and then sell their alcoholic beverage companies. Ryan Reynolds, who sold his gin brand for 500 million in 2020, and George Clooney, who sold his tequila brand for 1 billion in 2017, did it.
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The actor encountered the drink by accident and liked it so much that he wanted to be part of the company: «Shortly after the launch of Long Drink in the United States, Miles Teller visited a winery in his old neighborhood on the Lower East Side, where the founders of Long Drink were organizing a tasting. Miles liked the drink so much that he decided to invest in the brand a few months later,» explains the Finnish company’s website. Although he was not the founder, Teller used his capital to finance marketing campaigns for the drink in the United States – mainly starring memes – which caused the brand to triple its sales and become the sixth largest canned alcoholic cocktail brand in the country in 2025. Who will also take a part of the sale is the Norwegian DJ Kygo, who invested in the company after trying the alcoholic drink at Teller’s wedding, which was He married model Keleigh Sperry in 2019. Teller feels “very proud” to have participated in this project. «I am very excited for our founders. How admirable that they come from a country that does not export many products worldwide! But that they have brought this drink, that they have managed to expand it and make it grow organically, is the true American dream,» he told The Hollywood Reporter. Unlike other artists, who take advantage of their fame to promote their companies, he feels proud of having achieved success without showing his face in the campaigns. «Long Drink was, without a doubt, my first company. It’s the first brand I’ve linked myself to in this way. I’m not on Instagram, I’m not on TikTok, I’m not on a lot of those platforms where brands think, ‘Well, if you can’t promote it through your own personal channels, how much visibility are we going to get?’ And this shows the opposite and, I think, that consumers know how to spot the lies. They can tell when a celebrity is just looking to make a quick buck. I’ve been involved in this company for over seven years. It was something I really believed in and we found great ways for me to promote it and put my own brand on it,» he tells the American magazine.Miles Teller and his wife Keleigh Sperry at the premiere of ‘Eternity’, on November 8, 2025, in New York.John Nacion (Variety via Getty Images)This success has also taught the actor that you can live without social media, and he doesn’t plan to join it anytime soon. “I remember when I started my career, and even until now, that several agents told me: ‘You’re not going to get this role, this offer, because you’re not on Instagram.’ For me it’s a personal decision,” he says. And he explains: «I never thought that people would care to know what I do all the time. Personally, I’m not interested in that. I would never use the networks just to see a little bit of someone else’s life. I like to keep my life private and that people know me through the movies that I identify with and my relationship with Long Drink. In any case, I would only post pictures of my dog. I have Twitter, especially because it used to be a source of fast news. But I pretty much only post about sports. Philadelphia, my wife Keleigh, the Grateful Dead and my dog. «It doesn’t bother me that people know that about me,» he tells the publication. Despite the sale of the cocktail company, the actor will continue to participate in the company and with his film career: «Although the headline is ‘a sale’ and it certainly is because we are being acquired by the Mark Anthony Group of Companies, for us it is an opportunity to continue growing. for us,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter.
