Shia LeBeouf Reveals Why He Didn't Enjoy Working With Spielberg
Shia LaBeouf might have to wait a while before texting Steven Spielberg.
In a wide-ranging interview with Variety, in which he talks about his career and his new-found sobriety, the outspoken ‘Transformers’ star has revealed his rather bitter disappointment at working with the veteran director.
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LaBeouf has worked directly and indirectly with Spielberg on a number of projects, from ‘Disturbia’, made by Spielberg’s Dreamworks, to ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’.
“You get there, and you realise you’re not meeting the Spielberg you dream of,” he said.
“You’re meeting a different Spielberg, who is in a different stage in his career. He’s less a director than he is a fu**ing company.”
Clearly the director’s vision and rigid methods were not something that sat right with LaBeouf’s acting style.
“Everything has been so meticulously planned,” he added.
“You got to get this line out in 37 seconds. You do that for five years, you start to feel like not knowing what you’re doing for a living.
“I don’t like the movies that I made with Spielberg. The only movie that I liked that we made together was Transformers one.”
It’s not the first time that LaBeouf has overstepped in terms of his remarks about one of the most important film directors of all time.
He famously criticised him for ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’.
“I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished,” he told reporters at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
“I have a relationship with Steven that supersedes our business work. And believe me, I talk to him often enough to know that I’m not out of line. And I would never disrespect the man. But when you drop the ball you drop the ball.
“You get to monkey-swinging and things like that and you can blame it on the writer and you can blame it on Steven. But the actor’s job is to make it come alive and make it work, and I couldn’t do it. So that’s my fault.”
For his trouble, Harrison Ford called him a ‘f**king idiot’ for the comments, telling Details magazine: “As an actor, I think it’s my obligation to support the film without making a complete ass of myself. Shia is ambitious, attentive, and talented – and he’s learning how to deal with a situation which is very unique and difficult.”
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