Shia LaBeouf has been in the news numerous times for his various escapades, like the time he watched all of his own films in a row as a piece of performance art.
The Transformers star has also been in his fair share of public altercations, recently having a heated argument outside of a pub in Edinburgh.
With all that being said, LaBeouf has proven himself in the acting world, enough so to catch the eyes of A-Lister Brad Pitt back in 2014.
After just getting fired from a play, Pitt messaged the 38-year-old asking if he would join him in a WWII drama film.
The film, Fury, starred Pitt as the lead character Sergeant Don ‘Wardaddy’ Collier as he was in charge of a Sherman tank crew behind enemy lines.
His mission team included Boyd ‘Bible’ Swan, played by LaBeouf, with Grady Travis played by Jon Bernthal.
Bernthal, who’s starred in The Punisher, The Walking Dead and The Bear, believed LaBeouf’s acting methods to be a “wild experience.”
LaBeouf described the bond between the actors and the way he was keen to motivate them for this film.
“And then we’re in this makeup trailer getting ready to do this movie and I just made friends with all these armours, and we’re like putting fake mud on our faces and like it just feels like ‘oh man, like this can’t be it you know’.
“So I see Brad Pit in the mirror and I’m thinking like ‘how do I motivate my boys,’ you know, ‘how do we make this more, how do we get further?'”
Labeouf’s idea of “further” included scarring his face with a knife.
“I wanted more and we had already fallen in love at that point, like really bonded, and so I’m like rubbing blood on my face, partly for the character, but also partly like [to] motivate the troops, you know.”
He continued to share how the cast thought his methods were strange: “And then I’m like, I went and kissed him on the face, and that wasn’t enough, they kind of laugh at me like I’m an idiot.”
“And they think it’s like ridiculous.”
“And then I went to the grip department, I got some pliers and I ripped my tooth out and spit blood all over the mirror and everybody’s like ‘oh this is f**king crazy’.”
After sharing his brutal way of motivating his cast-mates, LaBeouf admitted that if he wasn’t around his friends he might have gotten fired for pulling a stunt like that.
“And if I wasn’t around a bunch of people who loved me, I might have gotten fired, you know, but what it did to us was, it like it’s game time.”
It seems as though this method worked in motivating the cast into getting more into character, as for the rest of filming the cast refused to go back into the make-up trailer.
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