The “Transformers” star told the Hollywood Reporter that he “wasn’t doing well” at the time. Shia LaBeouf left the play he was involved in after a conflict with Alec Baldwin.
Shia LaBeouf, 38, revealed that he slept in Central Park near where he kept horses while preparing for the Broadway play “Orphans” in 2013.
“They keep horses there near a fire basin,” said the 38-year-old actor in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
“And there’s plenty of space where you can just sit quietly. You have to move every three or four hours when someone passes by, but you can spend most of your time there,” explained the “Transformers” star.
“Orphans” told the story of two orphaned siblings, Treat and Philip, who were taken in by a man named Harold.
Shia LaBeouf was supposed to play Treat, while Tom Sturridge would play Philip and Alec Baldwin would play Harold. The actor left the production due to “creative differences” and mentioned his conflict with Baldwin, who is now 67 years old.
“He’s a nice guy,” he said about his colleague. “He’s like me. Fear makes you act differently. I found that this came from a complete lack of spiritual life,” he shared after revealing that Catholicism changed his “way of working.”
“Alec and I wouldn’t have these problems today. But I was on an island,” he confided.
In 2014, Shia LaBeouf revealed to Interview Magazine that he used the method acting technique, a technique used to connect more deeply with the role, and that this led to the conflicts with Baldwin.
“I slept in the park. I woke up and went straight to rehearsal. I was so terrified of doing the play that I had already memorized all the lines before rehearsals even started,” he explained.
“And my goal was to intimidate Baldwin as much as possible. That was the role. I wanted him to be afraid. So I did that for three weeks of rehearsal, until it became unsustainable,” he regretted.
Shia LaBeouf gained fame starring in the original Disney Channel series “Even Stevens” from 2000 to 2003.
Currently, the actor is married to actress Mia Goth, star of “Pearl,” with whom he has a daughter.
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