Shia LaBeouf drops acid for latest film role.
First sex, now acid. It seems that “Transformers” actor Shia LaBeouf will do just about anything for his acting career. Speaking to MTV News at the Sundance Film Festival, LaBeouf admitted to tripping on acid to prepare for his new movie, “The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman.”
“I’ve never done acid before,” LaBeouf said. “I remember sending Evan tapes.”
“Not like I would know about these drugs,” said Evan Rachel Wood.
“Not like she’s the expert on set. I’m just saying you reach out to friends and you sort of gauge where you’re at. So I was sending tapes around,” LaBeouf added. “I’d get 50 percents from people, and that starts creeping me out, and I got really nervous.”
Eventually, Wood said, LaBeouf’s acid-trip acting was “spot on.”
“Well, yeah. But not because I’m wanting to be on drugs. I’m not trying to mess with the set or anything like that. It’s really just fear that propels people,” the actor said.
While LaBeouf may have gone to great lengths to prepare for his latest acting gig, reviews of “Charlie Countryman” are less than glowing.
“There’s little chemistry between the principal actors, Shia LaBeouf and Evan Rachel Wood, and it feels as if the makeup and hair departments have conspired to ensure that neither looks their best,” wrote The Guardian’s Sebastian Doggart.
Actors and actresses have been known to transform themselves in order to prepare for a role. Rooney Mara, for example, pierced her nipple, nose and eyebrow to turn herself into Lisbeth Salander for the American version of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” Anne Hathaway lost 25 pounds to star in last year’s “Les Miserables.” She reportedly ate only two thin square of dried oatmeal paste a day to lose the last 15 pounds.
This isn’t the first time, nor probably the last, that LaBeouf has done something head turning to prepare for a new film role. In 2012, the actor told Chelsea Handler that he sent “Nymphomaniac” director Lars von Trier videos of he and his girlfriend having sex to grab a role in the movie. He also told MTV News that he’d be okay with having real sex on “Nymphomaniac” if the director requested it.
Has LaBeouf gone too far or is his “unique” way of preparing for films a sign of his talent and dedication to the art of acting? Sound off in the comments section.
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