Shia LaBeouf Bites a Much Bigger Hand That Fed Him

By PopEater Staff Posted May 17th 2010 08:25AM

It's official: Shia LaBeouf has no filter. While hardly no one can blame the 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps' actor for recently saying he "wasn't impressed" with the Michael Bay-helmed 'Transformers 2,' his latest comments about another film and its much-more-famous director may actually catch some heat. Interviewed at the Cannes Film Festival, LaBeouf came right out and said he was saddened by 2008's 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,' saying he and everyone involved -- including director Steven Spielberg -- "dropped the ball" on the blockbuster sequel.

"I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished," LaBeouf told the LA Times, apologetically. "If I was going to do it twice, my career was over."

Oh, and LaBeouf wasn't the only principle actor bummed out by the movie.

"We [Harrison Ford and LaBeouf] had major discussions. He wasn't happy with it either. Look, the movie could have been updated. There was a reason it wasn't universally accepted."

While the film may have been a financial success, earning nearly $800 million worldwide, LaBeouf believes Spielberg needs to hear it from a friend that 'Skull' was a mess. He urges the director to not let one bad movie get to him.

"I'll probably get a call [from Spielberg]," LaBeouf rightly predicts. "But he needs to hear this. I love him. I love Steven. I have a relationship with Steven that supersedes our business work. And believe me, I talk to him often enough to know that I'm not out of line. And I would never disrespect the man. I think he's a genius, and he's given me my whole life. 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."

LaBeouf fully admits he wasn't very convincing as a leather jacket-wearing action hero, saying he just wasn't up to the task.

"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 begins filming the third 'Transformers' movie on Tuesday, but last week he said he "wasn't really impressed with 'Transformers 2'" and that despite having "some really wild stunts," the flick's "heart was gone."

On Michael Bay, who directed 'Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen' and will also helm the third film: "Mike went so big that it became too big, and I think you lost the anchor of the movie."

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Monday 17 May

By Storm Shadow

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Shia needs to get a grip. Both those movies (Indy, TF2)would have been better without him in it. That little brat would be nobody without those movies! Anybody remember anything else he has done? Hmmm, nothing huh, thought so. Sure he has done a few other movies but for him to trash the biggest movies of his career is just plain stupid. Same goes for Megan Fox, that stupid girl is gonna talk her way right out of Hollywood just like Shia, besides the fact neither one of them can act worth a crap. I for one hope that he gets dropped from the Tranformers franchise after this next movie.

By gimpicasso

I've been a huge Indy fan but, he is right, it was the worst of the four movies. Y'all are haters, the kid isn't a bad actor and he hasn't said anything out of line or arrogant (about this OR the TF2 movie). Biting the hand that feeds him? He says he owes his whole career to Spielberg...how could he say such horrible things(sarcasm)... People need to lighten up, starting with the person who wrote this article.

Tuesday 18 May

By Tyler520

who is this guy trying to kid? He can stop dodging the isse: Shia LeBeouf ruins movies - it isn't the director, it isn't his coactors, and it isn't the writer - it is him. He is a walking, talking hollywood elitist stereotype - overpaid, arrogant, young and dumb

By Jamie

I thought the move was great! I loved it...all except for the alien crap that kinda killed it a little bit for me like it the knowing with Nicholas Cage, Aliens just didn't belong in the move! but Other then that I thought it was great!!

By reggie

Shia's accident ruined Tranformers 2! The fact that they had to wait 3 months to resume filming with him made the film loopy!
When you look at the movie you can see the energy from him is forced after the accident!

By The Goodsounds

I think Shia should go the route of a Joseph Gordon-Levitt and stick to particular indie or realistic roles of that nature where he can really shine instead of all the big blockbuster stuff he tries to do and fails miserable at. It's too much for the guy.

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