Ezra Miller Signals 'Tentative' Hollywood Return After Surviving Personal 'Abyss'

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Ezra Miller has talked of a possible return to Hollywood after facing controversial allegations in 2022.
They told the Italian outlet Lo Speciale Giornale, while attending this year's Filming Italy Sardegna Festival 2025, that a 'tentative' return to the film industry was possible. Miller added they were working with director Lynne Ramsay after attending the Cannes Film Festival in May to support the premiere of her film Die My Love.
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'I came to Cannes to support one of my closest friends in the world, who's Lynne Ramsay, who I think is one of the greatest living filmmakers. I'm working with her, again, that will likely be the first thing I do, a film that her and I are writing together,' Miller revealed in the video interview that was posted to Lo Speciale Giornale's YouTube account.
They worked with Ramsay on her 2011 film We Need to Talk About Kevin. Miller added that attending Cannes was a tough ask but followed an invitation from Ramsay.
'I didn't necessarily want to go to Cannes. That's a tough re-entry point. If you've been in the woods for three years, I do not recommend going straight to Cannes, where every photographer and every weirdo, every rich, genocidal freak, is there. It's not an easy re-entry,' they said.
But Miller added they respected Ramsay enough to trust her with their return to Hollywood. 'I believe in her more than the rest of it. When we got through those crucibles, if we can survive — which was up in the air for me, if I'm being real — we then have that capacity to see other people in their crucibles and just to reach towards them,' they insisted.
A possible return for Miller to filmmaking follows a string of controversial incidents from 2020-2022, which included a number of arrests and culminated in Miller issuing a statement apologizing for their behavior, citing 'complex mental health issues' and noting they were seeking treatment.
Miller said a possible return to Hollywood came after they found out during personal challenges whose support they had.
'When you work in this industry, you will find yourself in deep, deep relation with a lot of people who do not give a single fuck about you or your well-being at all. Not that I don't hold a lot of remorse and lamentation for a lot of things that I did, and for a lot of things that happened in that time, but I'm really, really grateful for the lessons that came with that abyss,' Miller told the Italian outlet.
At the same time, Miller said they had no artistic regrets.
'I don't. I'll be honest, probably the reason why I don't is I don't really think about it. The process for me is where the magic is. The work is for other people's judgment. For me, it's not my job. It's not my job to figure out whether an expression I was involved in is good or bad, or how it compares to other expressions,' they said.
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