Just this past year we?Staying in lately? The “Transformers” actor’s dad, Jeffrey — who was jailed from 1981 to 1983 for attempting to rape a minor — fled the country in 2014 after violating his registration requirements as a convicted sex offender. Actors Lucas Hedges, left, and Noah Jupe, director Alma Har’el and actor Shia LaBeouf, from the film “Honey Boy,” photographed in the L.A. Times Photo Studio at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Which freaked me out. So in the same way that Noah had had this longing towards me that was genuine and we would play with it, I also had a longing towards Lucas that was genuine.”“He is just the best partner ever to have on an artistic process. Breaking the loneliness of just being an actor that is waiting for approval has been really life-changing.Director Alma Har’el on collaborating with Shia LaBeouf“He really grew up living with the feeling that he has to be given permission [to take creative risks], and my biggest wish was he will have the freedom walking out of this feeling like he doesn’t need to wait for anybody to allow him to do it. Shia LaBeouf's dad is currently on the run from police, and a Hollywood therapist says his behavior may be affecting the troubled actor. It just seemed like something that has to be on-screen and not stay in the therapy room.“And it just kind of hit me that he has to do the dad and how striking and how hard that would be. The pair subsequently collaborated on a music video for the group Sigur Rós, and LaBeouf executive produced Har’el’s second doc, 2016’s “LoveTrue.”“I thought this is the part that he’s been preparing for his whole life when I read it,” Ha’rel said of the “Honey Boy” script. Don’tNetflix is doing a lot of heavy lifting to finally give us a reflection of the world we live in with its recent slate of YA movies. (Shayna and Jeffrey divorced when he was about 5.) And it was really important for all of us to kind of communicate with that and not ignore it, but also that you can kind of wink at it sometimes.
Check. He played Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, a role for which he received a Young Artist Award nomination in 2001 and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2003. Photo: getty. It just felt like we were working and growing and building this character together as a team.”For Har’el, Jupe and Hedges, a big part of their challenge was how much the character of Otis should mimic LaBeouf directly and how much he should be his own person. The newest video featuring Shia comes from a police officer’s body cam that details LaBeouf’s latest arrest, and the expletive-filled rant that followed. Best friend who wants to drag him and their not-so-cool friend to an epic party? Whie Netflix’s newest original movie, All Together Now starring Auli’i Cravalho may seem like itRWhen it comes to the excellent adventures and bogus journeys of Bill and Ted (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves), the space-time continuum is for dorks. He couldn’t accept it. LaBeouf and the filmmaker had grown close after he emailed her out of the blue upon seeing her 2011 documentary “Bombay Beach” on DVD. And the idea that he knows that I view him this way. Noah Jupe plays Otis Lort, the “Honey Boy” version of young Shia, while Lucas Hedges plays a slightly older Otis after he has become an action star and bounces into rehab following a few brushes with the law. So it just seemed like something that we would probably be able to do together, and it was really kind of scary in many ways to step into it, but Shia went for it.”Shia LaBeouf wrote and stars in Alma Har’el’s “Honey Boy,” about his own childhood, also featuring Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges.Adding to the daring, inside-out feeling of LaBeouf’s screenplay and unsparing performance were the complications of Jupe and Hedges trying to tailor their performances to credibly seem like the same person at different ages, both performed opposite the very real person their character was fictionalizing.“I thought before we started it’s a bit weird to be playing the person who’s actually right next to you, a younger version of them,” said Jupe, whose other credits include “A Quiet Place” and “Ford v Ferrari.” “But once we got there, Shia was very open to playing around and wasn’t at all stuck in a steady story.“I guess maybe it was weirder with me and Lucas playing the same character. He made his film debut in The Christmas Path (1998). Suddenly, we all have a lot of time free, and there are plenty of ways to keep busy — cleaning out closets (yep), pretending to listenThis story contains spoilers for Bill & Ted Face The Music, on VOD August 28. It’s major.”LaBeouf sent clips of their conversation to Har’el. The complex, dysfunctional dynamic between father and son forms the film’s core.LaBeouf — a teenage star on the Disney Channel series “Even Stevens” before rocketing to even greater fame with the “Transformers” franchise — started writing the script while in court-ordered rehab after his 2017 arrest in Georgia while shooting As he began writing, he did not intend to appear in the movie as his father or anyone else. As Jeffrey's employment after that was spotty, as far as we know.