I hope he is the “loving” father to his own daughter that his father apparently was to him. And the story that gets painted in Honey Boy is this dude is abusing his kid all the time.” I turned the knob up on certain shit that wasn’t real. I remember getting on the phone with him, and him being like, ‘I never read this stuff in the script you sent.’ Because I didn’t put that shit in there. LaBeouf threw his dad under the bus to elevate his own reputation, or as LaBeouf says himself, the movie “positioned me as this wounded, fractured child that you could root for, which is what I was using him for.” “ Honey Boy is basically a big ‘woe is me’ story about how f**ked my father is, and I wronged him. He was always there … and I’d done a world press tour about how f**ked he was as a man.” But never was not loving, never was not there. My dad was so loving to me my whole life. “Here’s a man who I’ve done vilified on a grand scale,” LaBeouf told Bernthal “I wrote this narrative, which was just f**king nonsense. The message of the movie is basically, “Yeah, I’m messed up, but it’s only because I was abused by my sociopathic father for years.” At the very least, I came away from the movie thinking, “Well, that explains a lot.” I’ve seen Honey Boy - it’s good - and the sinister thing that it does is create sympathy for LaBeouf. He admitted to Bernthal that his 2019 semi-autobiographical film, Honey Boy (written while he was in rehab) was “f**king nonsense.” It’s not exactly the “come to Jesus” moment that the newly converted Catholic might think it is.īut this latest revelation - again from Jon Bernthal’s Real Ones podcast (what were you thinking, Bernthal?) - is less of a come clean moment and more evidence that Shia LaBeouf is a real piece of work. While his decision to share the video of Olivia Wilde didn’t reflect well on the Don’t Worry Darling director, it also felt vindictive. He certainly doesn’t get much credit for taking a page out of the Bill Clinton book and apologizing for abusing “that woman”, without naming FKA Twigs. Granted, honesty is a good first step in any attempt to rehabilitate one’s reputation, but his “honesty” often feels more like airing dirty laundry. If Shia LaBeouf is trying to redeem himself (again) in the public’s eye, I have to say: This whole “ego death” strategy is not working.
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