Ezra Miller is making a "tentative" return to the spotlight.

The 32-year-old actor - who uses they/them pronouns - made a rare public appearance at the Filming Italy event on Thursday (19.06.25) and explained that they have been contemplating a return to the film industry despite the legal issues that have overshadowed their career in recent times.

Discussing their shock appearance at the Cannes Film Festival last month, Ezra told Italian publication Lo Speciale Giornale: "I came to Cannes to support one of my closest friends in the world who is Lynne Ramsey."

The star explained that they have been writing an unnamed movie with Ramsey - whom they collaborated with on the 2011 flick We Need to Talk About Kevin - and said that the project "will likely be the first thing I do" if a return to Hollywood materialises.

Ezra - who has faced accusations of harassment, burglary and grooming of minors - said: "I've been writing a lot, because you can do that in solitude, which has been friendly to me."

They also declared that they would do anything for Ramsey, despite the Cannes Film Festival being a "tough re-entry point" after such a long time out of the public eye.

The Fantastic Beasts actor said: "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 be there, you know what I mean?"

Ezra described their legal woes as a "crucible", which is defined as a "severe test or trial".

They said: "When we go 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. I think that grows more and more rarefied in our world too.

"Like, the capacity to do that, the desire to do that, the willingness to do that. We've become very consumed in notions of perception, self-perception, how we're perceived in the world. I really believe in digging past that and being a friend to people. And the people who did that for me, they have my lifelong devotion."

Ezra continued: "And also I'm grateful for the revelations of who was not that. When you work in this industry, you'll find yourself in deep, deep relation with a lot of people who do not give a single f*** about you, or your well-being, at all.

"And so, not that I don't hold a lot of remorse and lamentation for a lot of things that I did and a lot of things that happened in that time, but I'm really, really grateful for the lessons that came with that abyss."