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  • 28
    Aug
    2012
    11:33am, EDT

    Shia LaBeouf: I dropped acid for movie

    Charles Sykes / AP file

    Shia LaBeouf

    By Erin Carlson, The Hollywood Reporter

    And Hollywood's 2012 TMI award goes to ... Shia LaBeouf. The unfiltered Lawless star's latest confession involves dropping acid.

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    In an interview with USA Today, LaBeouf, 26, reveals he went all Daniel Day-Lewis to prepare for a key acid-dropping scene in his upcoming crime comedy "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman," now in postproduction.

    "There's a way to do an acid trip like "Harold & Kumar," and there's a way to be on acid," says LaBeouf. "What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that (electric) chair in 'Dead Man Walking.' These are the guys that I look up to."


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    LaBeouf says he was high one day on the set of 'Charlie Countryman,' directed by Fredrik Bond and slated to be released at Sundance next year. The film also stars Mads Mikkelsen, Rupert Grint and Evan Rachel Wood.

    "Sometimes, it does get real," he admits. "Too real for a (director) who's trying to keep a diplomatic set."

    As THR previously reported, LaBeouf, the ex-child star known for his roles in the 'Transformers' movies and the latest 'Indiana Jones' installment has traded standard studio fare for indie films.

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    "I'm done," he declared. "There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. You give Terrence Malick a movie like 'Transformers,' and he's f---ed. There's no way for him to exist in that world."

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  • 19
    Jun
    2012
    9:09am, EDT

    Shia LaBeouf takes it all off for music video

    By Courtney Garcia, msnbc.com contributor

    Misha Japaridze / AP

    Shia LaBeouf

    Yes, that's Shia LaBeouf. And yes, he's completely naked.

    The "Transformers" actor stars in an eight-minute video for Icelandic band Sigur Rós’ new music video, “Fjogur Piano,” baring his soul and genitalia for the world.

    The video is set to an instrumental piano piece, and begins with a rude awakening for LaBeouf and his female counterpart, played by Denna Thomsen, both of whom are stripped down under the sheets, and covered in strange paint marks and dead butterflies.

    After rising from the bed, they throw on a few articles of clothing, and partake in an intimate and suggestive interpretive dance. Later, the duo gets sucked underwater in a car with two men and some glowing lollipops, then engage in a violent fight, in which LaBeouf slams his fist into a mirror.

    So pretty much your basic day at the office.


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    According to the Wall Street Journal, the video, directed by filmmaker Alma Har’el, was prompted by Sigur Rós’ “Mystery Film Experiment” series, a project in which a dozen filmmakers were enlisted to select a song from the band’s new album, “Valtari,” and shoot a video with a $10,000 budget and zero instructions.

    “The things you can’t say in words are best said in dance,” Har’el, an Israeli filmmaker, told WSJ, describing the storyline as being “about addiction to drugs, or sex, or anything–and how you get stuck in a cycle.”

     As for her artistic direction behind the nudity, Har’el says it was spontaneous.

    “That’s the difference between working within a corporate system and something that artistically takes you places you wouldn’t expect,” she explains. “To me, it’s erotic, but it’s not selling anything.”

     "Valtari” is the band's sixth studio album and was released May 29 on XL Recordings.  

    You can watch the video here; obviously, it contains nudity.

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