Scott Eastwood said he clashed with Shia LaBeouf during the filming of the 2014 war movie "Fury," describing his co-star as someone who seemed troubled and indirectly calling him a psychopath.
Eastwood, the son of actor and director Clint Eastwood, discussed the conflict on the podcast "Armchair Expert." He said LaBeouf was clearly tormented and probably dealing with some issues, and that working with him was difficult.
Eastwood said that one day LaBeouf was going through some kind of episode and decided Eastwood should not spit tobacco onto the tank during a scene, even though it was called for in the script. Eastwood said that at some point he had had enough and told LaBeouf to stop the nonsense, warning that he would beat him up if he kept it up.
Eastwood said Brad Pitt, who starred in the film, had to step in to defuse the tense moment.
LaBeouf's devotion to method acting
Eastwood recalled that LaBeouf was intensely devoted to method acting, going so far as to pull out one of his own teeth and injure himself to prepare for the role. Eastwood said he remembered thinking that his co-star was crazy and that he would simply stay away from him rather than play along.
Eastwood said everyone on the set of the 2014 film had some kind of incident with LaBeouf. He said LaBeouf had finally grown up, and called it funny that the film industry attracts psychopaths because it is a place where art and business meet.
A history of arrests
LaBeouf has been admitted to rehab several times over an addiction to alcohol and has been arrested repeatedly over a period of more than three decades. This is not the first time he has been accused of clashing with a co-star during filming.
Rumors from the set of Lawless
During the filming of "Lawless" in 2012, rumors circulated that LaBeouf had knocked Tom Hardy unconscious. LaBeouf denied this in 2019, telling "Hot Ones" host Sean Evans that the rumors were nonsense and that the two of them had simply been wrestling and playing around. He said Hardy was a huge guy, especially at the time, as he was preparing to play Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises."
Director John Hillcoat, however, appeared to confirm that the two actors had actually come to blows and had to be pulled apart. Hillcoat told Collider in January that there was definitely a fight between them, that the situation escalated to the point where both men had to be restrained, and that he was relieved it hadn't gone further because he would not have wanted to see how it ended.
