Alec Baldwin Responds to Shia LaBeouf's ORPHANS Tweets

It was announced late last month that due to creative differences, the producers of Orphans and Shia LaBeouf would part ways and he would not continue with the production. LaBeouf revealed additional details on why he dropped out of the production via Twitter, including emails with Alec Baldwin, Tom Sturridge and more. Vulture asked Baldwin to respond to a particular tweet from LaBeouf: "The theater belongs not to the great but to the brash."

Check out Baldwin's response below:

"I can tell you that, in all honesty, I don't think he's in a good position to be giving interpretations of what the theater is and what the theater isn't. I mean, he was never in the theater. He came into a rehearsal room for six or seven days and, uh - you know, sometimes film actors - I mean, there are people who are film actors who have a great legacy in the theater. Some of the greatest movie stars had really serious theater careers and still do. And many film actors, though, who are purely film actors, they're kind of like celebrity chefs, you know what I mean? You hand them the ingredients, and they whip it up, and they cook it, and they put it on a plate, and they want a round of applause. In the theater, we don't just cook the food and serve it. You go out in the garden and you plant the seeds and you grow it. You know, it's a really very, very long, slow, deliberate - it's the opposite of film acting. It's a much more intensive and kind of thoughtful process. And there are people who that's just not their thing. So for those people who I think it's not their thing, I'm not really interested in their opinion of it. But thanks."

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Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge will star in Lyle Kessler's playdirected by Daniel Sullivan, and produced by Frederick Zollo andRobert Cole. This production will mark the first Broadway staging of the play.

In ORPHANS, two orphaned brothers are living in a decrepit North Philadelphia row house. Treat, the eldest, (Foster), supports his damaged younger sibling Phillip (Sturridge) by petty thievery, and makes the house a virtual prison for the seemingly simple-minded Phillip. One night he kidnaps a rich older man, Harold (Baldwin), who turns out to have his own motives and becomes the father figure the boys have always yearned for.