When Miles Teller appeared on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” this week, we hear the host had to fight with CBS’s “standards and practices” people in order to show a racy still from Teller’s new film, “Bleed for This,” on-air.
The image shows a ripped Teller — playing real-life boxer Vinny Paz — wearing nothing but what we’ll call a leopard-print banana hammock.
In the scene, Teller as Paz is taunting rival boxer Roger Mayweather (played by another real-life pugilist, Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin) at a weigh-in.
For the role, Teller grew a mustache and got down to 6 percent body fat — which Colbert dubbed “the Oscar zone.”
Teller and Paz will attend a Monday screening in New York.