With the release of this month’s American Honey, Shia LaBeouf is garnering arguably the best reviews of his career.
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The profile also revealed that for his role in the acclaimed movie, which hits theaters this week, he never had a script. Arnold just gave him some dialogue every morning and let him do his thing.
But LaBeouf, who had been burned by studio blockbuster experiences like the “Transformers” films and “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull”, told Variety that it wasn’t meant to be. According to LaBeouf, the pitifully small special forces role was initially much bigger when he was attached, but the script was changed to accommodate Will Smith’s casting as Deadshot – leaving Rick Flag and Lt. GQ Edwards (yes, Eastwood’s meaningless character had a name) with diminished roles. “That character and Tom [Hardy’s] character [later played by Joel Kinnaman] got written down to build Will up”. “I don’t think Warner Bros. wanted me”, Shia says.
I don’t love Missy Elliott like I wanna get two Missy Elliott tattoos, but you’re in a tattoo parlor, and… peer pressure.
Suicide Squad was one of the weirdest failures of a comic book movie I’ve ever seen, but apparently, it could have been even weirder.
In the past five years, the Fury star has been arrested for several alcohol-related incidents and garnered attention for his freaky antics, such as wearing a paper bag over his head to his movie premiere.
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“I don’t think I’d be working with the directors I’ve been working with if I had not f**ked up a bit”, he explained. “They wanted a fucking fireball”. He did say he’d be willing to work with Michael Bay again as the pair met through Transformers. “People don’t realize how dope that dude is”, LaBeouf said. “He’s trying to toe the line and be James Cameron, but James Camerons are dying”.
