In the spring of 2020, because the COVID disaster was quickly turning into a world pandemic, Ezra Miller started sporting out their welcome in Iceland.
The actor — finest identified for enjoying the DC superhero the Flash in a number of movies for Warner Bros. — was set to begin filming the studio’s newest entry within the “Harry Potter” franchise, “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” in London when the shoot was halted on March 15, 2020, resulting from COVID. In the weeks after, Miller, who identifies as nonbinary and makes use of “they/them” pronouns, turned a daily at bars in Iceland’s capital, Reykjavík, the place locals got here to know and even befriend them. Many acknowledged Miller from their earliest breakout films, 2012’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and 2011’s “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” the place they performed a troubled teen who introduced a bow and arrow to high school and murdered his classmates.
Miller, then 27, additionally began to indicate a special, unstable facet to their persona — one which started to concern Icelanders.
“There was always something with Ezra,” mentioned Carlos Reynir, then a bartender at Prikið Kaffihús, a pub positioned within the coronary heart of Reykjavík.
Reynir mentioned he intervened in two altercations at Prikið involving Miller. The first was a heated argument between Miller and a male patron that started as banter however ended within the actor placing the person in a chokehold and later slapping him. Reynir, who broke up the combat, says Miller later apologized, and the opposite patron rapidly shrugged it off as a joke. The actor was allowed to proceed frequenting the bar.
“We just brushed it off as two friends getting drunk and getting in a fight,” Reynir mentioned. “It’s Iceland. That happens twice a weekend.”
But the following altercation, wherein Miller assaulted a younger lady on the bar, was more durable to low cost. The incident grabbed world headlines when footage of Miller inserting the lady in a chokehold after which pushing her to the bottom went viral on-line in early April 2020.
Soon after the incident, Variety spoke with the lady Miller assaulted; she just lately confirmed that her feedback could possibly be printed for this text. She requested to stay nameless out of concern for her privateness, as she’s telling her story publicly for the primary time.
In the blurry video, Miller is seen confronting the lady — who’s smiling and waving her arms as she walks towards them — and asking, “Do you want to fight? Is that what you do?” After Miller grabs her neck, she lets out an audible gasp. The individual filming the video stopped to intervene, Variety has confirmed.
According to a few sources, the lady had been talking to Miller on the bar previous to the quarrel. She mentioned she inquired concerning the actor’s ft — seen in flip-flops — after noticing some wounds, which Miller defined have been battle scars from a combat. After discussing how they acquired them, she started to stroll away, however rotated and joked, “But just so you know, I could take you in a fight.” Miller replied, “You really want to fight?” and the lady advised them to satisfy her within the smoking space in two minutes.
Eventually, Miller confronted her exterior the bar.
“I think it’s just fun and games — but then it wasn’t,” she mentioned.
Ezra Miller in “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.”
Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection
It’s a sentiment echoed by one other lady, Nadia (she requested that solely her first title be used, out of concern for her privateness), who alleges in an interview with Variety that after a heat, two-year friendship with Miller, largely through textual content message, the actor got here to her Berlin house late one night in February 2022 at her invitation. They hadn’t seen one another since that they had a consensual sexual encounter in 2020. But after a pleasant interplay, Miller’s temper sharply turned when she advised them that they couldn’t smoke inside her house.
“That just set them off,” Nadia mentioned. “I asked them to leave about 20 times, maybe more. They started insulting me. I’m a ‘transphobic piece of shit.’ I’m a ‘Nazi.’ It became so, so stressful for me. They were going around my house, looking at everything, touching everything, spreading tobacco leaves on the floor. It felt disgusting and very intrusive.”
After roughly a half-hour of pleading, Nadia mentioned she lastly satisfied Miller to depart as soon as she referred to as the police. The incident left her deeply disturbed. While she is evident that she by no means felt liable to sexual assault that night time in her house, she believed the actor “could somehow attack me physically.”
“I totally felt unsafe,” she mentioned.
Five individuals — two associates, a girls’s rights advocate, a German social employee, and Nadia’s German lawyer — advised Variety that they spoke with Nadia quickly after her alleged encounter with Miller and corroborated her account. In April, Nadia filed a legal criticism about her expertise, which Variety has confirmed with the German State Prosecutor’s Office in Berlin. While the prosecutor was investigating a cost of trespassing towards Miller, their workplace says that it has discontinued its proceedings because the actor is now not in Germany.
Just over a month after her alleged encounter with Miller, Nadia noticed information experiences that the actor had been arrested half a world away in Hawaii, for disorderly conduct and harassment, after one other turbulent incident at a bar. In May, TMZ launched body-cam video of Miller’s arrest in Hawaii, wherein the actor data a lot of the encounter for, they are saying, “NFT crypto art.” In the video, additionally they say a patron at a bar “declared himself as a Nazi,” and accused a police officer of touching their penis throughout a search.
Nadia realized she wasn’t alone in her expertise with the actor. “It seems to be a pattern,” she mentioned. “They jet-set abuse.”
That alleged sample has solely grown extra alarming. After a second arrest in Hawaii in April, this time for second-degree assault after allegedly throwing a chair at a girl and leaving her with a reduce on her brow, the actor moreover has had two safety orders positioned towards them. The first, as reported by the Los Angeles Times, was by mother and father of a now-18-year-old from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North and South Dakota, who declare Miller manipulated their daughter when she was between the ages of 12 and 18. The second was by mother and father of a present 12-year-old in Massachusetts that entails an incident that occurred simply days earlier than their alleged confrontation with Nadia in Berlin.
In a narrative concerning the latter incident, The Daily Beast reported that Miller allegedly acquired into an aggressive confrontation with the Greenfield, Mass., household over the mom’s informal reference to “her tribe” and Miller’s declare that the board sport Parcheesi appropriates Rastafarian tradition. At one level, Miller allegedly revealed a gun and mentioned to a member of the family, “Talking like that could get you into a really serious situation.”
In June, a Rolling Stone story alleged that Miller has been housing a mom and her three younger youngsters at their Vermont farm amid unsafe dwelling situations, with unsecured weapons scattered across the expansive property. (The mom advised Rolling Stone that Miller helped her escape an abusive marriage.)
As for Miller’s future as a film star, it’s unclear whether or not they’ll proceed to carry out because the Scarlet Speedster in future tasks, however Warner Bros. continues to be dedicated to releasing its $200 million-budgeted tentpole “The Flash” in theaters in June 2023. According to sources with data of the undertaking, the movie merely prices an excessive amount of for the studio to scrap solely and reshooting with a brand new actor in Miller’s position is equally cost-prohibitive, as a result of the actor is in nearly each scene. Also, the movie seemingly can’t generate the revenues wanted to show a revenue with no sturdy theatrical run, so placing the film straight on HBO Max can be unlikely. All eyes are on Warner Bros., nevertheless, as to the way it continues to navigate the uneven waters surrounding Miller. The studio already needed to downplay the actor’s involvement in “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” which opened in theaters in April.
Representatives for Miller had no remark. A supply near the state of affairs tells Variety that Miller hopes to deal with the allegations sooner or later, however they’ve chosen to privately give attention to their well being and therapeutic over the approaching months.
When Miller began exhibiting up at Prikið Kaffihús in Reykjavík, their uncommon conduct was at first chalked as much as the eccentric whims of a visiting movie star.
“If they weren’t lighting incense or candles, or even bringing in their own Bluetooth speaker and playing it super loud to overpower our music, there was always something,” Reynir, the bartender at Prikið, mentioned. “We’d approach them and say, ‘Hey, do you mind? There are other people here.’ It was a bit of a chuckle. And then they would go, ‘Yeah, sure,’ and they’d stop, only to continue it a little bit later.”
The day Miller assaulted the lady at Prikið in April 2020, her preliminary interactions with them felt at first to be in a equally barbed-yet-easygoing vein. When she advised Miller to satisfy her within the smoking space, she mentioned she meant it as “a joke” — and it appeared that Miller took it as one after they remained inside.
But then a pal of the lady approached Miller and advised them that he’d heard the actor didn’t need to combat. “My friend didn’t have to say that,” the lady allowed. “It was just a joke, obviously — but [Miller] took that literally and got super mad and came running outside.” That’s when one of many lady’s associates began recording.
“I think it’s just fun and games — but then it wasn’t,” she mentioned. “All of a sudden, [they’re] on top of me, choking me, still screaming in my face if I want to fight. My friend who’s filming sees [they’re] obviously not joking and it’s actually serious, so he stops filming, and pushes [them] off me as [they’re] still trying to fight me. Two guy friends of mine are actually holding [Miller] back as [they’re] screaming, ‘This is what you wanted! This is what you wanted!’” (At the time of the interview, it was unclear whether or not the lady was conscious Miller identifies as nonbinary.)
The lady mentioned Miller spat in her pal’s face “multiple times” — an affront that was harmful within the early, pre-vaccine days of the pandemic. (Variety in 2020 confirmed Miller’s actions along with her pal, who additionally wished to stay nameless.) Eventually, she mentioned, a bartender — Reynir — ran exterior to interrupt up the combat.
Reynir had arrived early for his shift that day and had seen the lady within the smoking space along with her associates and Miller. When he noticed the state of affairs “going way out of hand,” he determined to get entangled.
“[Miller] grabs me by the throat as I’m trying to usher them out the [back] door and tells me they’re not leaving,” Reynir mentioned. He added that Miller repeatedly claimed that the lady’s associates had pushed them. “Which they didn’t,” the bartender mentioned.
“They proceeded to spit in my face several times, so with the final push I closed and locked the door,” he added.
Reynir then ran to lock the tavern’s entrance entrance, the place Miller, who had run alongside the perimeter of the constructing, was banging on the door and screaming to be let in. Eventually, the actor was ushered right into a automotive by two native associates and pushed away. Variety has corroborated Reynir’s account with three different sources, together with administration at Prikið.
The lady reported the incident to the police — the report was confirmed by Variety — however didn’t press costs. Reynir was allowed to complete work early and took a COVID PCR check the following morning, which got here again detrimental, he mentioned.
“I do believe the incident at the bar was what ruined [Miller’s] reputation thoroughly in Iceland,” Reynir mentioned. “They stopped coming to other bars shortly after.”
Reynir, who left Prikið just lately and now works at a Chinese restaurant, was struck by how rapidly Miller turned towards the local people, leaving a path of destruction of their path.
“I thought they were great to begin with. We talked about all kinds of spiritual things and went deep into philosophy,” mentioned Reynir. “They had this wonderful mask on as this total sweetheart with a completely open mind, who’s ready to help and talk to anyone. But as soon as someone does something they don’t agree with or doesn’t like, it’s their fault, not [Ezra’s].”
The day the video of Miller choking the lady in Iceland went viral, Nadia noticed it on her Twitter feed. She referred to as them instantly.
“Ezra was in Iceland in a car with a friend,” Nadia mentioned. “I could hear the friend or maybe friends, I don’t know, laughing, and Ezra was in a very good mood. Ezra was like, ‘Don’t worry. It’s just a misunderstanding. It’s nothing. Nothing happened.’”
At the time, Nadia had identified Miller for just some months, however she felt she had no purpose to doubt them. “In the video, it’s true that the girl is smiling, so I thought, ‘OK, I guess it was taken out of context and they were just playing around,’” she mentioned. “I just let it go.”
Nadia met Miller in January 2020 at an artwork opening in Los Angeles — she was visiting from Germany — when Miller approached her and a pal exterior and struck up a dialog. While she works within the music world, Nadia was unfamiliar with Miller’s profession and didn’t acknowledge them.
“They said they were a performer,” she mentioned. “My friend kept on saying, ‘It’s Ezra Miller!’ And I kept on asking my friend, ‘Who’s Ezra Miller?’”
She favored that Miller was fascinated with discussing “society” and “spiritual things” reasonably than speaking concerning the movie trade or popular culture. “It was refreshing,” she mentioned. So, as she was leaving the opening, Nadia requested Miller to trade numbers.
About 5 minutes into the automotive trip again to her lodge, Nadia mentioned she began receiving “pretty adult, X-rated” textual content messages from Miller suggesting the 2 hook up. “Which, by the way, was totally fine — there was nothing abusive about it. I’m just not into texting like this,” she mentioned. “I told them to stop, and they stopped on the spot.”
The two saved texting, and on Miller’s final night time in L.A., they spent the night time collectively. “They were super caring, super nice,” she mentioned. “I had no reason to suspect anything bad was ever going to happen with them.” (Nadia mentioned she couldn’t share the texts with Variety out of concern it will violate German privateness legal guidelines.)
Over the following two years, Nadia mentioned she and Miller continued to textual content one another, however each try to satisfy once more in individual was thwarted both by their schedules, the pandemic or each. After plans to spend Christmas 2021 collectively in London have been foiled when Nadia’s flight was canceled 3 times, she started to fret concerning the energy of her reference to Miller.
“They’d been super nice to me, and I didn’t feel good to not show up and to refuse the invitations,” she mentioned. “I thought maybe I’ve lost a friend because we’ve missed each other so many times.”
Ezra Miller because the Flash on the set of “Justice League.”
Warner Bros. / courtesy Everett Collection
So, with the Berlinale approaching in February 2022, she invited Miller to go to her ought to they be within the metropolis for the annual movie competition. The actor had just lately wrapped filming on “The Flash,” and “The Secrets of Dumbledore” wasn’t opening for an additional two months, so that they had nothing to advertise in Berlin. But one night time throughout the competition, Nadia acquired a textual content from the actor at almost 4 a.m.
“I received a message, like, ‘Hey, I’ve arrived in Berlin, but I might have to go tomorrow,’” she mentioned. Miller hadn’t lined up a lodge, she mentioned, so with the town shut down amid the omicron surge and the climate close to freezing exterior, she invited Miller to her house.
“When they arrived, they were super nice, super polite, asking me if they could come in,” she recalled. “When I said my house is shoes off, they had no problem taking their shoes off.”
They talked. She gave them tea and vegetable soup. Then Miller started to roll a cigarette.
“I was like, ‘Yeah, you need to smoke this outside or on the balcony. There’s no smoking in my house,’” she mentioned.
Miller saved rolling their cigarette. Nadia insisted they smoke exterior. Instantly, their demeanor modified.
“And this I’m quoting word for word,” she mentioned. “They started with ‘I’m a maker of planets. Tobacco is sacred.’” Miller continued on a “tirade,” she mentioned, that they may do “whatever they want whenever they want, basically.” When Nadia stood as much as insist that friends ought to honor their host’s home guidelines, “they looked at me with this really mean, stern face, and told me, ‘Sit down,’ like they were ordering a dog.” Nadia advised Miller as a lot. Their reply, she mentioned, was “Yes, I’m talking to you like a dog.”
“I said, ‘OK, if you talk to me like this, it’s time for you to go,’” she mentioned.
But Miller didn’t. Instead, they escalated, accusing Nadia of being “transphobic” and a “Nazi.”
“I asked them if they remember I told them I’m a descendant of Holocaust survivors, so why would they say that to me?” she mentioned. “They answered, screaming at me, ‘Yes, but how many people of my family died?’ Because many people in their family died. I was like, Oh, OK, this is a game of who’s got the most trauma.”
So, Nadia disengaged. “The only thing I said to them was ‘Leave my house. Go away. Go away. Leave. Can you leave now?’” she mentioned. “Like a broken record.”
Miller persevered, stalking her house. “I told them I was calling the police because they were refusing to leave,” she mentioned. “And while I was calling the police, Ezra was calling the police — or pretending to call the police. I don’t know.”
Miller entered Nadia’s bed room, and when she advised them to depart, “they started to shout that they were a rape survivor and I was triggering them,” she mentioned. “They started to say I had assaulted them. I had beat them up. I had hurt them.”
Finally, Nadia was in a position to block Miller close to the doorway to her house along with her physique, and mentioned out loud that she was shocked the police hadn’t arrived but. Miller lastly gathered their issues and left. Nadia referred to as the police to inform them to not hassle coming, put her cellphone and door buzzer on silent and set about cleansing up her house.
“I thought it was over, but it was not,” she mentioned.
About half-hour later, at almost 6 a.m., Nadia heard a loud banging noise on the entrance door of her house constructing. When she regarded exterior, she might see Miller on the door seemingly trying to interrupt it down, and mentioned they have been screaming that Nadia had stolen their passport and cash. She then found Miller had left behind a second jacket in her house, which did include Miller’s passport and bank card. She threw down the jacket to Miller from her balcony and went again inside. At that time Nadia realized Miller had texted her simply minutes earlier, however she mentioned she didn’t see the texts till days later, when she reviewed them with a social employee. (The social employee confirmed seeing the texts with Nadia to Variety.)
It was an alarming exclamation level on what had already been a daunting expertise. “I did not feel safe,” Nadia mentioned.
All 5 sources who corroborated Nadia’s account with Variety mentioned they spoke along with her very quickly after — in a single case, the day after — her alleged encounter with Miller. Only Nadia’s lawyer might recall Nadia telling him that Miller had declared that they have been a “maker of planets” and that “tobacco is sacred.” All the sources have been deeply troubled by what Nadia associated to them about her alleged expertise.
“I was worried,” mentioned one in every of Nadia’s associates. “I think she was misled — she had a memory of them from when they had time in L.A., and what she got [in Berlin] was really different. It sounded dangerous.”
Nadia mentioned she has not seen Miller since that night time, and he or she blocked their quantity on her cellphone. But she was deeply shaken. “One of the reasons I did not feel safe is after they left, I Googled Ezra to see maybe something is going on with them,” she mentioned. “And I saw a report in the press that they made some sort of death threats to KKK members via Instagram.”
On Jan. 27, the actor posted a message on video “for the Beulaville chapter of the North Carolina Ku Klux Klan.”
“Look, if y’all want to die, I suggest just killing yourselves with your own guns, okay?” Miller continued within the video. (The actor has since deactivated that Instagram account.) “Otherwise, keep doing exactly what you’re doing right now — and you know what I am talking about — and then, you know, we’ll do it for you if that’s really what you want.”
Miller had repeatedly referred to as Nadia a Nazi in her own residence. They knew the place she lived and had tried to interrupt down her house constructing door. What was to cease them from posting about her?
“And then I have fans at my door wanting to beat me up,” she mentioned.
After talking with the social employee about her choices, Nadia realized {that a} technique to defend towards any reprisal from Miller was to share her expertise with a journalist. She reached out to a girls’s rights advocate whereas searching for steerage on find out how to proceed; that supply, who additionally corroborated Nadia’s account, put her in contact with Variety.
For the Icelandic bartender Reynir, the worldwide consideration following Miller’s conduct in 2020 rocked his metropolis, which regardless of being accustomed to Hollywood actors coming by city as a part of Iceland’s booming manufacturing scene, is much less aware of the worldwide attraction of movie star drama. The incident, Reynir mentioned, introduced him near the others concerned, however “thanks to an Icelandic upbringing, we’re rather quick at letting things like this go.”
Prikið noticed Miller simply as soon as extra after the incident with the lady. Both Reynir and his former supervisor mentioned the actor got here to the bar with the reward of a stuffed toy elephant, meant as a peace providing and nonetheless kicking round “somewhere” within the bar. They haven’t seen Miller since.
Two years later, nevertheless, following the brand new string of headlines about Miller, the actor is as soon as once more a subject of dialog in Reykjavík.
“To this day, if I see Ezra Miller, I’ll look the other way and keep walking, but I still wish them the best. I don’t want this to be their life,” Reynir mentioned. “I want them to stop going through the celebrity craziness that they’re going through and be happy. Even though they did all this shit to me and my friends, they’re still a person that deserves good things, but not if they continue acting the way that they have. You get what you give.”
Nadia is much less forgiving of Miller’s conduct, but in addition a bit much less involved about any reprisal from the actor since they’re dealing with so many different allegations and authorized battles. “They’re probably not thinking about me anymore because I’m just one of many people they abused,” she mentioned.
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