For better or worse Shia LaBeouf is consistently making headlines around Hollywood; mostly because the world thinks he has gone insane. Seriously, he wore a paper bag that said “I’m not famous anymore” to a premiere of Nymphomaniac, was caught plagiarizing scripts, harassed Mia Wasikowska on the set of Lawless to the point where she almost left the project, and has seemingly just lost all of his marbles.
His latest stunt comes from filming the upcoming World War II drama Fury, where Shia reportedly cut his own face and had some of his teeth removed to make the movie feel more real. And before you think Shia’s being a pathological liar again, his co-star Logan Lerman actually confirmed everything in an interview with GQ. Here’s what he had to say:
On Shia cutting himself: “We were in make-up and they were putting cuts on Shia and I said, ‘Yeah, yeah, it looks good.’ And Shia was like, ‘No, it doesn’t look real’,” said Logan, who appears alongside LaBeouf, Brad Pitt, Jason Isaacs and Michael Pena in David Ayer’s film. “Then he walks out into the hallway and says, ‘Hey man, wanna see something fun? Check this out…’ and he takes out a knife and cuts his face. And for the whole movie he kept opening these cuts on his face. That’s all real.”
On Shia getting teeth pulled: “I mean, he didn’t do it himself, he did go to a dentist and asked them to pull his tooth out but yeah, what an odd request.”
On Shia learning to operate a turret: “He really spent every moment on that set. He’s the guy operating the turret in every shot, even when you don’t need to be in there as an actor. You know, you can have somebody else inside. But he was there, for every shot.”
We can debate whether Shia is crazy or not, but in this case you have to admit that it is some pretty admirable and hardcore dedication to his role. Fury will be released on October 17th, and stars Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Michael Pena, Logan Lerman, and Jon Bernthal.
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Originally published October 8, 2014. Updated July 3, 2023.
