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THB Headline: A Shia LaBeouf Interview
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THB Headline: A Shia LaBeouf Interview

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Aug 28, 2022
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This is just a wide open suggestion… that I feel strongly about.

I’m not suggesting how you should feel about Shia LaBeouf. I am not taking a position for or against him or Olivia Wilde.

What I am suggesting is that if you want to see a documentation of a person in the midst of trying desperately to change his life, this interview is worth your time. And not just the 16-minute YouTube version, but the whole 2-hour version, available at Patreon after a sign-up for $5 a month.

Shia LaBeouf selling himself as Mr. Good Guy is not what you will find here. What you will find is human who has a real sense of what damage he is capable of, to others and to himself, fighting to find a way to live in the world while keeping it all in perspective. Even as he is explaining - with what I believe to be complete sincerity - choices that he is trying to make, he is also falling in and out of performance… in exactly the way he is explaining that he is desperate to grow past.

In the discussion, Bernthal…

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