Shia LaBeouf channels his Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps character Jacob Moore for GQ‘s April 2010 cover. I love this photoshoot. He looks like the Shia I first saw in Holes, rather than the Shia who gets arrested for being too drunk in Walgreen’s. Check out these excerpts from his interview.
On working with bankers to prepare for the movie:
“It’s easy to villainize these guys with the big paychecks…But they’re not all bad. I’m a pretty left-wing character, and I come from whatever collar is lower than blue. But meeting these guys really opened my mind a lot. I’ve never seen people with more drive and determination in my life.”
However:
“It’s the most sex-drugs-and-rock-’n'-roll atmosphere that exists on the planet. I was hanging out with some wild human beings.”
On his infamous car crash:
“I’d be watching the news, and they’d play my car crash, and every once in a while Kim Kardashian’s sister would jump on TV and preach to me from the red carpet about how to live my f—ing life. And I’m so upset, man. I’m so angry. Because this accident was not caused by me. I got hit. I had a green. This f—er ran a red light. And he flipped my truck, and he shoveled it on my hand. And my fingers are in the street… they’re off, they’re under the truck door, man. This [his reconstructed hand] is fake, dude…This is hip bone and the skin that was left over…”
On working with director Oliver Stone:
“He is a doctor of human manipulation…One of the first things you do with Oliver is you start talking about your personal life. You give it all to him at the beginning, and then he has these strings with which he can f— with you. He regurgitates this stuff at inopportune moments. He will just come up and whisper a phrase in your ear, sing a song, mention something about your dad, and—pow!—it puts you in a different world.”
On Stone’s unconventional methods:
“We’d be on the street, and Oliver would just say, ‘Go to that bar, get f—ed-up, and come back.’ I’d walk over, get smashed, and go back to work. He would really f— with me when I was smashed. I get aggressive when I’m smashed, and he’d film that. He would just open you up completely, make you f—ing naked-and then call, ‘Action.’”
Photo Source: GQ, popcrunch
