Shia LaBeouf Puts the Brakes on 'Insane' Risk Taker Josh Brolin

By Bryan Alexander Posted Sep 24th 2010 08:45AM

A key scene in 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps' features a cocky Shia LaBeouf eager to burn his onscreen boss, Josh Brolin, in an open-road motorcycle race. LaBeouf admits to PopEater that his "cowboy" co-star had the clear edge in the racing scene, no matter what you will see in the movie.

"His risk appetite is that of someone you would call insane," LaBeouf says of Brolin. "I have a fear of losing my life that I don't think that man has."

"He's a cowboy, he's a man's man. And he's out to prove it all the time," he adds, admitting defeat in any real-life bike competition. "I have to give it to Brolin."

The racing scene is a pivotal plot moment in 'Wall Street,' opening Friday. LaBeouf says the two, both ardent motorcycle enthusiasts, actually shot most of the dangerous stunts themselves.

"The majority of it is us," LaBeouf says. "There were about two shots that were not of us." But at some point, the 'Transformers' star had put the brakes on the danger, even if he is reluctant to go into detail -- "There's stuff I cannot really relinquish," he says.

Yet, he couldn't help giving us some details of shooting the high-speed scenes. "If you're told you're going to hit this turn around 50 or 60 [mph] and then you look down at your speedometer and its saying 85 to 90 on a bike that's on a hairpin turn," says LaBeouf. "That's enough."

"I was constantly trying to keep up with Brolin, who kept pushing the pace," he adds.

Further, Brolin had a one-of-a-kind Ducati bike that LaBeouf insists was a "two-million dollar prototype" that had to be started with a machine.

"It's one thing to be fearful for your life, but if you scratch that bike, we have a real problem," says LaBeouf. "There was only one of that particular bike ... My bike you could kick over."

All things considered, he loved working with his risk-happy co-star and even recalls shooting the scene fondly.

"It was fun," says LaBeouf. "It was like two boys in a sandbox."

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Friday 24 September

By Apostate

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Call it sequel-fatigue,an aversion to Shia's acting or both, but I'm not even remotely interested in seeing this flick....

By Anthony

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Call it being over-opinionated or just wanting some attention or both, but i'm noteven remotely interested in what you have to say.....

By Nico Toscani

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I'm with you on this one. Shia is going to be WAY out of his league going up against Brolin and Douglas on screen. He is a poor actor.

Saturday 25 September

By haiyou2b

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By PomDeTerre

saw the movie last nite. in a word, it SUCKED. total rip-off of the original in an attempt to get us to fork outt our money. like they said, greed is legal. stay away from this one.

By BTDT

LaBeouf single handedly destroyed the Indiana Jones franchise.
Can't imagine he brought anything but misery to Wall Street.

By george

Who in there right mind would want to see this movie, pure garbage.

By Natasha26

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I hate that brocoli-hair rat Shia and I really want to see the sequel to one of my all time favourite movies, so what do i do now? BUMMER HUH?

I can just hope that Oliver Stone hasn't done any more dilution to the essence of that movie e.g. by adding motorbikes or romance, oh no, hang on, he did!

By Randy

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Shia is an awsome actor and I wish him the best of luck.
( Call it) what ever you want, Shia has one hell of a career ahead of him.

By Ralph Zuccaro

The only way Shia Labutt can get in any movie, is by attendeing the same synagogue as his fellow actors!!!

By bob parks

What the hell is a shia labof??

By alybaly

It is french for crappy actor

The movie is liberal propaganda against Wall Street! The 1st movie was great however this is just a chance for the generally Rich -leftist Hollywood to villify Wall Street at a time when they are under huge scrutiny! However it is interesting that these Hollywood people are some of the richest in the world. And oliver Stone is a Hitler loving anti-semite...

By frankerin

What a load of crock, a blattant suck up, fostered no doubt by some media publicity hack. And he will gain some media cred by being so bent over.

By Emery

i thought of many things to say but his crappy acting says it all

By Mike

Wow, why is everyone so uptight and critical of everything? I go to see a movie to be entertained for a couple of hours, that's it. If I'm entertained, then it was worth it. I look forward to seeing this one. Get a life people, it's a movie.

Sunday 26 September

By garry

amazing