Shia LaBeouf is looking back on a former rift he had with ex co-star Alec Baldwin.
While speaking with the Hollywood Reporter, the actor opened up about butting heads with Baldwin on the set of the 2013 Broadway play “Orphans” before eventually quitting the gig amid the beef.
LaBeouf said the friction with Baldwin kicked off after Al Pacino dropped out of the play, which left LaBeouf heartbroken.
“By the time Baldwin got there, it was almost unfair. So he’s dealing with both my fractured little weak ego, right?” the “Transformers” star recalled. “All this hard prep that I’d done for two years, and my desperate need to show him all my prep, or that he would accept me somehow.”
Telling the outlet that he was “so insecure” at the time, he continued, “Well, that got contentious in the room. Then he got competitive. That’s just what our relationship turned into.”
LaBeouf revealed that while the two were feuding, he was “living in the park” and “on steroids.”
“I was sleeping in Central Park. They keep horses there at this little fire basin,” he said. “And there’s a whole lot of room around there where you can just chill. You got to move every three or four hours and the guy comes around, but you can spend most of your time there.”
Elsewhere in the interview, LaBeouf shared that he and Baldwin have since patched things up, noting that the two have both “gone through a lot.”
“We’ve both been able to send each other love and make it right before all the madness happened on both sides,” the star said. “We made it right. He’s a good guy. He’s just like me. Fear will make you move different. I found it came from having absolutely no spiritual life.”
Baldwin addressed the pair’s clash in a 2014 essay for Vulture, writing that “there was friction between us from the beginning.”
“One day he attacked me in front of everyone. He said, ‘You’re slowing me down, and you don’t know your lines. And if you don’t say your lines, I’m just going to keep saying my lines,’” Baldwin claimed. “I asked the company to break.”
The “Rust” star added: “And I took the stage manager, with [director Daniel] Sullivan, to another room, and I said one of us is going to go. I said, ‘I’ll tell you what, I’ll go.’ I said, ‘Don’t fire the kid, I’ll quit.’ They said no, no, no, no, and they fired him. And I think he was shocked.”
Read LaBeouf’s full interview with The Hollywood Reporter here.
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