Shia LaBeouf Talks Exit from Broadway's ORPHANS: 'I've Made Peace with Baldwin'

In a recent interview with with Interviewmagazine.com, actor Shia LaBeouf spoke about his exiting the 2013 production of Broadway's ORPHANS due to creative differences with his co-star Alec Baldwin.

"That's a heartbreak I still have not been able to recover from," reveals the actor. "I have since made amends with Baldwin, Sullivan, and Sturridge, and Ben Foster, who I never had a problem with-I love that motherfer. "

He went on to explain, "Baldwin and I butted heads hard. I came in method. I was sleeping in the park. I'd wake up, walk to rehearsal. I was so scared to do the play that I had memorized it before ever coming to rehearsal. And my whole goal was to intimidate the f out of Baldwin. That was the role. That was my job as an actor. And it wasn't going to be fake. I wanted him to be scared. So I went about doing that for three weeks of rehearsal, to the point that, in the end, it was unsustainable."

LaBeouf recently made headlines again when he was arrested for disturbing behavior during a June performance of Broadway's CABARET. He shared that it was Baldwin who was among the first to rach out to him. "I've made peace with Baldwin. He was the first dude to hit me up after I got out of court. He sent me an e-mail. It's really beautiful. I was crying on an airplane. And I hadn't talked to him since I got fired."

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LaBeouf began his career in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, for which he received a Daytime Emmy Award, and with his film debut in Holes (2003), based on the novel of the same name by Louis Sachar. In 2004, he made his directorial debut with the short film Let's Love Hate and later directed and shot the music video for "I Never Knew You" by rapper Cage.

In 2007, LaBeouf starred as the lead in the commercially successful films, Disturbia, Transformers and Surf's Up. His other films include Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008),Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), followed by Lars von Trier's "Nymphomaniac."

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