Shia LaBeouf jumps ship from Broadway debut

[doc_phibes]

[http://www.avclub.com/articles/shia-labe…-br,92769/](The A.V. Club — Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed.)

Less than a month before previews begin, it’s the ol’ “creative differences” excuse. Considering we’re talking about LaDouche and Alec Baldwin was the co-star, anything’s possible.

If anyone has links to gossip, inside scoops, or just plain ol’ dirt… PLEASE POST THEM!

[user_32]

a role that, presumably, the
studiously Method acting
LaBeouf prepared for by killing his parents.

Must be some serious “creative differences” after going that far for the role.

[cylon_baby]

I hope he didn’t decapitate Baldwin the way he did Tom Hardy.

[doc_phibes]

Apparently, he and Baldwin didn’t mix well. But everyone apologized to each other via email and made nice. How do we know this? Because LaDouche posted all the emails on Twitter.

[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/0…d=tw-share](Shia LaBeouf Withdraws From Broadway's 'Orphans' - The New York Times)

[barkatthemoon]

There was a time Nic Cage was this radical and self-important too. Having teeth removed for Birdy, eating cock roaches for Vampire’s Kiss. He was a loon.

Then he made Con Air, and he was alot of fun for a while.

[mrbananagrabber]

I wish I had such a comfy life that I could quit a job if I didn’t get along with a coworker.

[user_32]

Hey, loon he may be but at least Cage had a Raising Arizona on his resume before winning an Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas. What does LaBeouf have? Except for youth and trillions of dollars?

[machiav]

@Barkatthemoon

was a time Nic Cage was this radical and self-important too. Having teeth removed for
Birdy
, eating cock roaches for
Vampire’s Kiss
. He was a loon.
Then he made
Con Air
, and he was alot of fun for a while.

I’d take “Vampire"s Kiss” over “Con Air”. Pauline Kael said there was genius in that performance. I agree.

Hmmm, some other films/performances I’d take over Con Fucking Air.

Valley Girl

Birdy

Raising Arizona

Peggy Sue Got Married

Moonstruck

Wild At Heart

Honeymoon In Vegas

Red Rock West

Leaving Las Vegas

Fuck Bruickheimer.

[user_32]

An e-mail sent by the “Orphans” director Daniel Sullivan to Mr. LaBeouf at 7:18 p.m. on Tuesday reads: “I’m too old for disagreeable situations. You’re one hell of a great actor. Alec is who he is. You are who you are. You two are incompatible. I should have known it.”

“But having to choose between the two of you which one to stay and which one to go, I went with Alec. Sorry Shia old buddy.”

BTW, Labeouf’s hour long audition for the play.

[barkatthemoon]

@machiav

take “Vampire"s Kiss” over “Con Air”. Pauline Kael said there was genius in that performance. I agree.
Hmmm, some other films/performances I’d take over Con Fucking Air.

Well yeah, his acting was always great, but his Con Air era is when his stopped being so method and self-important.

He didn’t insist on actually having John Travolta’s face transplanted on his skull for Face Off. Vampire’s Kiss era Nic Cage would have.

I heard he actually wanted to blow up Randell “Tex” Cobb with a grenade in Raising Arizona though.

[bailey]

@Barkatthemoon

didn’t insist on actually having John Travolta’s face transplanted on his skull for
Face Off
.
Vampire’s Kiss
era Nic Cage would have.

Good news: You can get it in rubber now.

(With an order of two they throw in a bonus Newton-John.)

[doc_phibes]

An angel comes to the rescue…

[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/0…n-orphans/](Ben Foster Will Replace Shia LaBeouf in 'Orphans' - The New York Times)

[user_32]

Can we get some of Ben Foster’s e-mails published on twitter.

[user_32]

Alec Baldwin responds to a Shia Labeouf tweet that, “The theater belongs not to the great but to the brash”.

"
I can tell you that, in all honesty, I don’t think he’s in a good position to be giving interpretations of what the theater is and what the theater isn’t. I mean, he was never in the theater. He came into a rehearsal room for six or seven days and, uh — you know, sometimes film actors — I mean, there are people who are film actors who have a great legacy in the theater. Some of the greatest movie stars had really serious theater careers and still do. And many film actors, though, who are purely film actors, they’re kind of like celebrity chefs, you know what I mean? You hand them the ingredients, and they whip it up, and they cook it, and they put it on a plate, and they want a round of applause. In the theater, we don’t just cook the food and serve it. You go out in the garden and you plant the seeds and you grow it. You know, it’s a really very, very long, slow, deliberate — it’s the opposite of film acting. It’s a much more intensive and kind of thoughtful process. And there are people who that’s just not their thing. So for those people who I think it’s
not their thing
, I’m not really interested in their opinion of it. But thanks."

http://www.vulture.com/2013/03/alec-bald…tweet.html

[dr_harford]

AI think I have to get Shia’s back on this, since he has a well liked actor - an actor who some might say made many bad choices over the course of his career - coming out against him here. Baldwin’s garden is a perfectly valid approach to theater, I don’t doubt, but for this rather aged thespian to insist that there is one way and one way only to approach the stage, well that I have to take with a grain of salt. I get the feeling that Shia is simply too ‘real’ (for lack of a better word) for today’s media environment. He isn’t a plasticine person and so he gets hammered when someone like Bieber (who might as well be called ‘Idoru’) is rewarded for his empty flash and posse that includes Kanye & the Kardashians.

I like Shia. He reminds me of a young Tom Cruise. He is definitely one of the most naturally charismatic performers of his generation, if nothing else. He takes acting seriously, and I have to give him the benefit of the doubt on a call like this.

[fatherdude]

@Barkatthemoon

was a time Nic Cage was this radical and self-important too. Having teeth removed for
Birdy
, eating cock roaches for
Vampire’s Kiss
. He was a loon.

Nicolas Cage did not have Labeouf’s star power in the 80s. I mean, what evidence bears out the “self-important” claim?

[cylon_baby]

I can’t recall another young actor with talent (and The Beef does have talent) Death Starring his career so quickly and effectively.

He pisses off Spielberg and probably Michael Bay with his shitty comments on Indy 4 and Transformers (yeah the comments on Indy were innocuous but by Hollywood standards they were a kick in the balls to a very important patron). He shit talks Oliver Fucking Stone on the followup to one of his best films (and I actually like Wall Street II though it’s not as good as the first, mostly I think because Stone is now ambivalent about Wall Street). Then the “fights” in bars. Now this.

Thank God Tom Sizemore is sober, else we might see a new Sex Tape co-Starring Sizemore & The Beef.

[mrbananagrabber]

Tom Sizemore is on the wagon again? CAST HIM IN EVERYTHING!

… I have an unhealthy affection for Sizemore.

I’m actually kinda sad about the Beef’s fall. I could have seen him on a Tom Hanks trajectory, but his ego is getting the better of him.

[ben_grimm]

@MrBananaGrabber

Sizemore is on the wagon again? CAST HIM IN EVERYTHING!
… I have an unhealthy affection for Sizemore.

Today’s AV Club:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/tom-sizem…ose,93298/

[mangy]

AV Club interviewed Sizemore just today. EDIT: Blast!

LaBeouf The Goof posted more emails. This seems like a good way to get people to never correspond with him again.