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Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox have a huge hit on their hands and they are about to become household names.
Honestly, I?ve been a fan of Shia?s since he was the star of Disney Channel?s series Even Stevens. I watched it with my daughters, who thought it was hilarious. You could even see back then that this kid was going to go somewhere. His comedic timing was natural and fantastic.
Flash forward eight years and LaBeouf has a list of hit movies under his belt including Greatest Game Ever Played, Holes, Constantine, Bobby, Disturbia and Surf?s Up just to name a few. Now with Transformers finished he has moved on to star as the son of our favorite archeologist, Indiana Jones in the upcoming fourth installment of the franchise.
The IESB sat down with a roundtable of journalists to talk to Shia and his female Transformers counterpart, Megan Fox, during the press day to promote the film.
Let me tell you how excited Shia was to see IESB, Collider and LatinoReview sitting around the table?LOL! Seriously though, he?s hilarious!
Check out what they had to say in the Q&A below!
Q: I don?t think you could be in enough movies this year Shia!
Shia LaBeouf: What do you want me to do about it, what do you want me to do about it?
Q: Your first reaction of seeing the finished product, seeing this film?
SL: Pretty badass, I think. I?ve never seen action like that ever. Just from the action standpoint it was nuts. The actors are all really fun to watch, it?s a good group. The crowd is really mixed as far as the actors go. You go from [John] Turturro to Anthony Anderson, it?s like?a whole spectrum of different types of styles. And the storyline?s fun, I mean it?s like you know we?re creating a mythology.
Q: Are you guys finally happy to be able to talk about it?
SL: What?
Q: With all the people asking like, how?s the movie, tell me about it, you can finally now just talk about what you think and talk about specific scenes.
Megan Fox: Yeah, well they released the comic book which reveals the ending also so we can say anything we want now. It?s all out there.
SL: Shoot. Go. Go.
Q: Well I have to say you?re a really lucky man. Because you work with a beautiful woman in ?Disturbia? and for Christ?s sake man, I don?t know if I wanted to see Optimus Prime or it was?wow.
SL: Yeah, a lot of people. [Laughter] Now it gets all awkward. Yeah, it?s a real pleasure to show up and yeah?
MF: We spent an entire day shooting and kissing and it didn?t even make it into the movie which makes me think he set that shit up with Michael Bay. [Laughter]
Q: Did you guys play Transformers as a kid?
SL: I did.
Q: Out of all your toys was that a toy you played with a lot and what was it like to jump into that role and actually be in that world?
SL: Its nuts, its like you?re playing with the triple changer, you know? And it?s weird, it?s strange. Plus, I mean it?s such a different, tonally it?s the same because there?s humor, but you?re not going to match, I mean, our Bumblebee and that Bumblebee is two different Bumblebees and the nostalgia factor will put you back there but it?s not the same Bumblebee. So it?s fun to see this new fruition to this whole new thing. It?s a new thing, it?s very new.
Q: Was that a throw [back] when you were getting the car where the Beetle was next to it and the door hit it?
SL: Yeah, yeah?
Q: Shia when we were talking to you a couple of months ago and you were describing working with Michael Bay you said, ?you know, you don?t want a guy who talks about your motivation, you want a guy that sets your hair on fire and all that,? you said a lot of that. However we just talked to Jon Voight and both him and Turturro said that you were responsible for the emotional through line of this movie and now having seen the movie, yes you are, your character. I mean, we got to be in your head space and follow you through all of this and we?re attached to you. So, now a lot of acting, and not just action acting came through in this. Can you talk a little bit about balancing?
SL: He just allowed freedom, he allowed freedom and we had a good script [Roberto] Orci and [Alex] Kurtzman wrote a good script and it was just, you know, you work on this stuff. It?s just a normal movie, we?re just making a movie. Michael Bay?s not that far off, you know he?s got a lot of DJ [Caruso] qualities to him too, I mean he knows how to make a movie. He knows how to work with actors. I just don?t understand like I walked into the movie and he was like fucking, the devil, you know and I didn?t meet that guy. Pretty simple.
Q: How physically challenging was this?
SL: Physically challenging? It was pretty physically challenging.
Q: Is this the most physically challenging movie?
SL: No Indy is. This was pretty physically challenging though. I mean just because you know the difference is like, it?s a lot of evading, it?s like tactical when you?re just running all the time. It?s a lot of running. You?re not going to have a fist fight with a robot. So it?s just a lot of running. She slipped a disc doing this one thing where we had spins, this robot?s spinning us and she slipped a disc in her back, so that was lame, I got a scar, nothing crazy but, nobody got hurt bad, bad.
Q: This almost has a Star Wars feel to it, it?s like huge and fresh and what not. Are you guys prepared for 2 and 3?
SL: I mean I know that I?m signed on and most of the people in the cast are signed on, if they make one, you know, if it?s financially, you know Constantine said they were going to make sequels and they?re not doing that.
Q: Lorenzo [di Bonaventura] says he is.
SL: Yeah I?m sure he is. [Laughter] If the movie makes money they?ll make another one, it?s like, it?s show business.
Q: Can we get a show of hands of who doesn?t think there?s going to be a sequel?
SL: To Constantine?
Q: No, Transformers.
SL: Well, we?ll see.
Q: The last scene was a total set up.
SL: You mean with Starscream flying off?
Q: Can you talk about training for Indy?
SL: No, especially not in this room. [Laughter - Points to IESB, Collider and LatinoReview journalists]
Q: Come on, no motorcycles injuries yet?
SL: No, I don?t know what you?re talkin? about dude. [Laughter] I fucking hate you guys, man. You don?t know how much trouble I?d get in. I?d get in so much trouble, dude. I?d go back to work and they?re like, ?Oh, so you?ll never believe what we read.? Really? Sorry.
Q: Now Shia you talked before about how you know, you stay out of the whole Hollywood scene but now that you?re in so many movies and you?re becoming more and more popular. Do you find that you?re more tempted or temptations are being thrown your way more?
SL: Well there?s different shades of Hollywood, sure I mean if I?m working in this business, but I?m not Hollywood. Hollywood is a whole different thing. I mean if we?re talking about the Hollywood, like the party thing, is that what we?re talking about? Yeah, well that?s just not interesting to me. That just seems like kind of square, nobody really has fun at those clubs anyways. If I want to party, I?ll party at my house. I could probably get away with more and probably meet nicer people. [Laughter] So there?s just no point in doing it publicly.
Q: You don?t want to party with Paris [Hilton] and Lindsay [Lohan]?
SL: No, no, no.
Q: How about you Megan?
MF: Yeah, no I avoid that completely. It just doesn?t appeal to me at all. I see what it does to people. A – I don?t like going to clubs like that because I?m not looking to hook up with somebody so why and I going to go and like dance around on tables if that?s not what I?m looking for, that kind of attention.
Q: Any thoughts of your old co-star in rehab, any well wishes for her?
MF: So many well wishes, just all well wishes.
ImageQ: We can?t ask Shia about his next project, but can you talk about what you?re working on?
SL: No, no I can?t. You can, you can talk about it, well she can?t either, can you? You can?t talk about it either, you?re thing?
MF: Not really. [Laughter] ?I?m doing a movie with Simon Pegg and Kirsten Dunst, it?s based on a book, you guys probably know ?How To Loose Friends and Alienate People.? I?m doing that in London.
Q: Did you already start filming?
MF: No, we leave tomorrow night, I?m flying out to London starting my first day is on Monday.
Q: What can you tell us about your character?
MF: Yeah she?s sort of a distraction for Simon?s character and I end up sort of torturing him and messing up his life a little bit. It?s this young Hollywood starlet who is just sort of coming into her first bit of fame. Parallel.
Q: Now Shia, did you get the Indy role based on Transformers?
SL: I think it was ?Transformers? and ?Disturbia? and Steven just watching all the dailies for like nine months. It was just like a nine month audition, I imagine.
Q: What were your guys first thoughts when you got the script, both of you, just what was it, after you sit down and read it and then thinking about your role in this movie.
MF: I never got the script, the script was on lock. Did you get it?
SL: Yeah.
MF: You got it? [Laughter] It was in, I had to go to Michael?s office and sit in this room that was all like glass walls and I had a certain amount of time to read the script and then I left. But that was after I had booked it and right before we started filming. So there wasn?t a whole lot of time.
Q: Does that mean you didn?t audition?
MF: Oh no, I auditioned, but they was no script to read while you were auditioning because they didn?t want it to leak onto the internet. So we had sides and that was it.
Q: When you were looking at the script, were you sort of like Michael Bay, big summer movie, yeah I?m in, or were you actually?
MF: Yeah, there was no considering like if I wanted to do it or not. It was just if I could obtain it.
Q: Why Marilyn on your arm and is it permanent?
MF: Yeah it?s definitely permanent, what a douche bag I would be if I had like a temporary? [Laughter] No it?s definitely permanent and I just had an incredible amount of empathy for her my whole life. I cry when I see her on camera or when I hear her voice.
Q: Why?
MF: It was, I have theories about it now, but it?s happened?
Q: But you were just a baby, or not even born when?
MF: I know a lot about her, but I empathized with her before I knew any of those things. So that?s why I was actually driven to ink it on my arm, it was between her and Kurt Cobain, I went with her.
Q: How many times tattoos do you have total?
MF: I have eight.
Q: How about you Shia?
SL: Three.
Q: Now Shia, can you talk about without revealing, you?re first meeting with Harrison [Ford]?
SL: Yeah, yeah. He?s the man. He?s the man. It?s very tricky, you know what I mean, you guys.
Q: I?ll follow up on that, how does Harrison, does he look like he?s oh my God getting ready for this, is he?
SL: Yeah, yeah Harrison?s ready to go. He?s jacked, he?s ready to go. He?s in shape. I?ve never seen a man that age in that type of shape.
Q: When do you start shooting?
SL: Very soon. [Laughter] I?m getting good at this, dude!
Q: Here?s the next question, are you doing Spielberg?s next movie after this by any chance?
SL: He?s got a bunch of next movies.
Q: The one about the president?
SL: No, no, no. I?m not doing that.
Q: Have you had your birthday yet?
SL: Yeah, like four days ago.
Q: Oh, well I knew you were dreaming about going to Scotland, I guess?
SL: Yeah, I think I might have just said it just to sound cool. [Laughter] I don?t think I was ever really planning to go to Scotland.
Q: Well how did you celebrate?
SL: I went to like a cigar lounge in Beverly Hills and just smoked cigars and drank some Scotch. Yeah, it was cool.
Q: Are you twenty one?
SL: Twenty one.
Q: Are you just turned twenty one too right?
MF: Yeah, in May, May 16.
Q: How did you celebrate?
MF: I was working, I was doing?I was at a Maxim party in New York. It was great.
Q: Shia with all these movies that you are doing, do you have time to date anyone?
SL: Yeah sure.
Q: Are you seeing anyone?
SL: I?m just dating, messing around. I?m 21 years old and doing the 21-year old thing.
Q: Have you dated her?
SL: Have I dated?
Q: Her. [Points to Megan Fox]
SL: On camera, yeah sure. [Laughter] She?s engaged. Yeah, congratulations.
Q: Have you guys set a date yet?
MF: No.
Q: Can you guys talk about the experience of working for Michael Bay and also are you guys looking forward to working for him again, assuming that it makes the money?
MF: I?ll be in any movie he makes ever. He makes gigantic blockbuster films that shitloads of people go to see and to turn that down, I personally would be crazy. You?re in more precarious position than I am.
Q: Shia can you say, you know you?ve been around Spielberg, you know for the last couple of films but the fact that you?re going to be taking direction from him in the next week or so. Can you talk a little bit about how you?ve been preparing yourself for that maybe?
SL: It?s a whole different thing, yeah and it?s a lot of pressure. You can feel the pressure. You know, because there?s part of you that?s like, ?Oh this is great, I should trust him completely, it?s Steven Spielberg, you know the modern day Elia Kazan, he knows what he?s doing. Relax.? But then there?s the other part of you that goes, ?Ok, now you got to earn this, you got to, there?s got to be a reason.? Because I still don?t feel like it makes any sense for me to be in the movie.
Q: Do you feel like you have to up your game?
SL: Oh yeah. I could just see the first day, like Steven behind the camera and you know, [George] Lucas behind the monitor and Harrison over there and Cate [Blanchett] over there and like?Action! What the fuck are you about? [Laughter] You know, that?s scary to me.
Q: So do we ever see you with a fedora and a whip?
SL: No.
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