Shia LaBeouf never one to shy away from giving frank copy about his past work with legendary directors (regarding Steven Spielberg’s work in “Indiana Jones 4 and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”: “He’s done so much great work that there’s no need for him to feel vulnerable about one film. But when you drop the ball you drop the ball”) and less than legendary ones (“[Michael Bay] went so big that it became too big, and I think you lost the anchor of [Transformers 2], ya know, human-on-human contact”) shared a gem about his work with Oliver Stone in the upcoming “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.”
“We’re in the Adirondacks, and Josh Brolin and I are shooting this bike scene,” the actor told the press assembled at the Wall Street sequel’s premiere. “And at one point I say to Josh a line — ‘You should look at yourself in the mirror first and see yourself. It might scare you,'” recalled LaBeouf. “I looked at the line for a couple of months and thought I’d go to Oliver and say, ‘You look at the mirror and look at yourself. It’s sort of repetitive. Why don’t we just cut one of those? Why don’t I say, Look at yourself. It might scare you.’ This is Oliver verbatim. He looks at me and goes, ‘I like mirror. I wrote Scarface. Go fuck yourself.'” Ouch.
We presume that LaBeouf kept his comments to himself from there on in, and perhaps he should learn how to pronounce words first before trying to write them (see video below).
For more Oliver Stone, check out our retrospective of the director’s films. “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” hits theaters this weekend.