Shia LaBeouf

[susyhomewrecker]

From Wikipedia:

LaBeouf's father used to grow cannabis, and the two had smoked marijuana together when LaBeouf was ten.

Move over, Dina Lohan...Shia's dad is the new parent of the year!

[Beyle]

I found Shia's mother (on PG) amusing because she was so hippie.

They seemed to have a cute relationship. His father was never featured on PG.

[mariposalabrown]

My family name is LaBeouf, pronounced "LeBuff", and my ancestors were beef farmers in France. Anyone know if he has family in Louisiana? Because if so, he's gonna be related to me. Everyone with that name pretty much is. Oh, and count me as someone who will go out of her way to see something only because he's in it. Also, I thought that digital short was hilarious. I've had that Imogen Heap song stuck in my head for weeks now.

That sounded so disjointed, I'm sorry. Monday, monday.....

[Deleted]

I really like him. I went to see Holes (because I love Jon Voight) and developed quite an inappropriate crush on Shia. I thought he was pretty good looking and such a natural and easy actor. After coming to terms with the crush (all this time, I thought I was so alone - I didn't realize that he had other older female fans ) and followed his career, but I could not ever enjoy Even Stevens because he just looks so bloody young in that program. As young as he looked/was in Holes, he looked about 10 years younger in Even Stevens and it just freaked me out.

I have to admit that I have been pretty entertained by all of the "Shia grew up to be quite attractive!" press that he has been receiving. It made me feel validated.

I thought Disturbia was very good (much better than I expected) and I absolutely went to see it because of Shia. I don't know if he has what it takes to be a huge star (who does these days?) but I think he is very much in a position to be an asset to the films he is in.

[discoprincess]

mariposalabrown said:

My family name is LaBeouf, pronounced "LeBuff", and my ancestors were beef farmers in France. Anyone know if he has family in Louisiana? Because if so, he's gonna be related to me. Everyone with that name pretty much is.

According to wikipedia, his dad is Cajun, so it's possible. ;D

[Karen]

EW:

Talking about survival strategies in Hollywood, LaBeouf sometimes sounds a bit like an M.B.A. giving a PowerPoint presentation. ''You don't want to flood the market with yourself,'' he'll say, projecting little of the wise-child innocence he brings to the screen. Or: ''They put you in this little shoe box and every time a certain role comes up they pull it out. I want to fit into every kind of shoe box. Comfort and typecasting are the two killers of a career.''

''It could all go away tomorrow if I'm at a club drinking like an a--hole,'' warns LaBeouf, who drives a nondescript Nissan and lives in a two-bedroom house in the Valley. ''Someone like Lindsay Lohan's personality is [more] famous than her performance. You've got to maintain some mystery.'' But doesn't he worry that all work and no play might make Shia a dull boy? ''Part of me wants to go out and see my peers. But if I go to a club and get my picture in the press, then I am that young Hollywood a--hole. That would shatter my world…. There's no way you get Tom Hanks' career without thinking about this stuff,'' says LaBeouf, who has decided to forgo a massive birthday blowout when he turns legal in three days. ''Everyone turns 21,'' he says. ''Not everyone gets to be in Indiana Jones.''

Someone who's thinking ahead! Maybe he's being a bit pretentious trying to be taken seriously as an actor (he did Disney stuff or something like that as a kid?), but it's still preferable to wanting to be known for partying and assholish behaviour.

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I can see how that can come off as smug, but it's so refreshing to see that there still are 20-21 year olds with some sense in the industry. I thought Evan Rachel Wood was one of them, but look what happened to her. Maybe he can be a good example and restore some faith in those young adults.

I'll take overly mature and smug over entitled and stupid any day.

[mariposalabrown]

I didn't think it came off as smug, to me it was business-savvy and smart. Go, Shia!

[orangeslice]

I didn't think it came off as smug, to me it was business-savvy and smart. Go, Shia!

I thought the same thing. It is nice to see someone in Hollywood with some actual talent not completely piss it away.

I find it a little disturbing on my part that I find him so cute, when I probably would have been his babysitter when he was younger.

[incognito]

He does strike me as a bit smug in general and striving too hard to be edgy and cool (I really hated him on the Holes DVD commentary), but at least he's not a tabloid fixture.