SHIA LABEOUF | INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (2008)
“You get to monkey-swinging and things like that and you can blame it on the writer and you can blame it on Steven [Spielberg]. 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. Simple.”
LaBeouf — it took us 27 tries to spell that correctly — has garnered quite a reputation for being an arrogant pain in the ass. Even Alec Baldwin got annoyed with him. Then again, Shia was obviously correct about Chrystal Skull; those monkeys and whatnot would have been laughably bad if we hadn’t been crying due to the metaphorical death of one of our childhood heroes.
SHIA LABEOUF | TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN (2009)
“I wasn’t impressed with what we did [with Transformers 2] … There were some really wild stunts in it, but the heart was gone. We got lost. We tried to get bigger. It’s what happens to sequels.”
Yep, he did it again. LaBouf’s IMDB page has plenty of low-hanging fruit to bust on: Eagle Eye (2008), Dumb and Dumberer (2003), New York, I Love You (2009), and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) are all lousy movies. So why would he single out two blockbusters that A) made him a household-ish name, and B) gave him the financial freedom to do whatever Broadway projects he wanted to do before his annoyed costars asked him to stop doing them?
