These are photos of Shia LaBeouf in NYC earlier this week. He was in town for a court apperance to follow up on his drunken Cabaret arrest (which followed a string of bizarre behavior). Shia showed proof of his outpatient alcohol program. The judge ruled that Shia’s record will be cleared if he stays out of trouble for six months.
Shia has a new interview with Dazed Digital. It was an email interview with some Skype-like interaction between himself and the journo. Shia talks a lot about his “baghead” art exhibit called #IAMSORRY (a rip off of Marina Abramovic’s 1974 exhibit). Shia sat in a gallery for seven hours per day, five days per week. He silently cried his eyes out and provided a bunch of props (including a whip, pliers, a Transformers toy, Hershey’s kisses) for people to use on him. One by one, people entered the room and did whatever they pleased to Shia. Most of them just talked to him as he sat mute. Shia tells Dazed that a woman raped him inside the gallery:
What happened during the exhibit: “Almost everyone who came in had preconceived notions of what they were going to experience, and as soon as Nastja Rönkkö brought them through the curtain, everything changed. I went from being a celebrity or object to a fellow human. I was genuinely remorseful. It wasn’t manipulation, I was heartbroken. People I’ve never met before came in and loved on me and with me. Some would hold my hand and cry with me, some would tell me to ‘figure it out’ or to ‘be a man.’ I’ve never experienced love like that; empathy, humanity.”
One woman went way too far: “One woman who came with her boyfriend, who was outside the door when this happened, whipped my legs for ten minutes and then stripped my clothing and proceeded to rape me … There were hundreds of people in line when she walked out with dishevelled hair and smudged lipstick. It was no good, not just for me but her man as well. On top of that my girl was in line to see me, because it was Valentine’s Day and I was living in the gallery for the duration of the event — we were separated for five days, no communication. So it really hurt her as well, as I guess the news of it travelled through the line. When she came in she asked for an explanation, and I couldn’t speak, so we both sat with this unexplained trauma silently. It was painful.”
His “method” Fury shoot: “Fury is the most meat I’ve ever had to chew on. David (Ayer, director) told us right from the gate: “I need you to give me everything.” So the day after I got the job, I joined the US National Guard. I was baptised — accepted Christ in my heart – tattooed my surrender and became a chaplain’s assistant to Captain Yates for the 41st Infantry. I spent a month living on a forward operating base. Then I linked up with my cast and went to Fort Irwin. I pulled my tooth out, knifed my face up and spent days watching horses die. I didn’t bathe for four months. I met some tankers who told me that was just the way it was out there — some guys had the same pair of socks on for three years.”
[From Dazed Digital]
The last paragraph confirms rumors that Shia pulled out his own tooth on the Fury set as a form of method acting. I’ll never understand the method thing, and this new knowledge does not help matters.
Now … on Shia’s revelation that he was raped during his art exhibit. This is horrifying and terrible. Just because Shia invited people to whip him doesn’t mean they could do anything they wanted to do to him. He was raped, and that is one messed up situation.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
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