Story of Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf learned how to play with others on action-movie sets, which may help explain why he’s often ready for a fight. One scrape last October during the filming of “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center pitted the young actor against director Michael Bay over a song.
Bay unplugged the actor’s iPod, LaBeouf says, and replaced it with his own, cueing up the propulsive, orchestral “The Dark Knight” score. Spit’s flying.” According to LaBeouf, Bay left the set with the NASA/military entourage, and his director of photography finished shooting the sequence without him. After working on three “Transformers” movies together, the 25-year-old actor says, Bay is “sort of my big brother. Sometimes it’s not actor-director. “I come here for the décor,” LaBeouf says, gesturing at the mostly empty eatery’s eight Formica tables. “There’s candleholders. Lean, shaggy-haired and smart alecky sometimes to the point of self-destruction, LaBeouf has little in common with the beefy, well-behaved heroes of many summer popcorn movies. (LaBeouf says his father, a onetime heroin addict, is now clean — “My parents are retired basically. LaBeouf was handpicked by executive producer Steven Spielberg to be the human face of the “Transformers” franchise, which so far has grossed more than $1.5 billion worldwide; the third installment reaches theaters on 3-D screens Tuesday night, and opens nationwide on Wednesday. LaBeouf plays Sam Witwicky, a reluctant soldier in the war between the benevolent Autobots and the evil Decepticons.
Critics love to hate the “Transformers” films, but that hasn’t kept audiences away. “This movie’s very different, more physicality, darker premise, more story line, clearer thought,” LaBeouf says of “Dark of the Moon.” Like the character he plays, LaBeouf has developed since being handed his first blockbuster. In 2009 and 2010, LaBeouf topped Forbes magazine’s list of Hollywood’s “Best Actors for the Buck.” According to the business journal’s calculations, LaBeouf’s movies earned an average of $81 of profit for every $1 a studio spent on the actor in 2010, and $160 for every $1 spent in 2009. LaBeouf is the youngest, most ambitious of three violent brothers — his siblings are played by Tom Hardy and Jason Clarke.
“When you’re a racehorse and you’ve got 20 trainers, all the trainers want the racehorse to run a certain way,” LaBeouf says. I’ve learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. I like going to camp,” LaBeouf says. I have a hard time with free time.”
In 2007, LaBeouf was arrested for refusing to leave a Chicago Walgreens (the store owner later dropped the charges). LaBeouf says he has been warned by people he respects — including Spielberg — to watch his words in public and smooth some of his rough edges.
Shia LaBeouf and Harrison Ford may have only played a father/son pair on-screen, but their real life relationship has a distinct tone of disapproving dad to it. Shia LaBeouf, seen here with Harrison Ford at the film's 2008 premiere, was the recipient of a strange mix of flattering and harsh words from his co-star, stemming from the 25-year-old's outspoken honesty about the film's faults.
"I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished," Shia LaBeouf said. Look, the movie could have been updated. In reaction to Shia LaBeouf's words, Harrison Ford told Details magazine, "I think I told him he was a [expletive] idiot.

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