Shia Labeouf revealed in the upcoming documentary “Megadoc” that he was greatly dropped from former co-star and mentor Jon Voight, and didn’t talk to him for years before creating “Megalopolis.” Labeouf has identified “very different politics” as the source of their fight.
“The first version I read was about five years ago. (Coppola) read the table, and in the days I read this film, I basically messed up my life,” LaBeouf says in the film. “I was in the midst of taking the ninth step in this program. Voight’s politics and my politics are so different, I had to compensate Voight. I love him so much.”
Labeouf and Voight first collaborated on “Holes” in 2003 and teamed up again for “Transformers” in 2007.
“He was like my mentor at a young age,” LaBeouf said of his co-stars. “He seemed like the first real actor I’d met, and he was the first actor to leave me to (Dustin) Hoffman’s repertoire… he sat in the room with me and watched all these films back to back.
However, Voight has become an outspoken Trump supporter for many years and has recently been selected as one of Trump’s special envoys along with Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson. Labeouf doesn’t mention Voight’s affiliation with Trump, but he cites politics as a reason for dropping out among them.
“We had a big fight on the phone. So I told him I was coming to his house, we were going to have a fist fight and I hung up,” LaBeouf said. “I didn’t talk to him in years.”
Variety reported from Venice that “Megadock” has Francis Ford Coppola, director of “Megalopolis,” is honest about the difficulty of working with LaBeouf. The lawsuit was settled in July.
Various things: “The film records how tensions were loaded between LaBeouf and Coppola. After LaBeouf asked two questions about what LaBeouf tells in the story, the latter abandoned the set before the scene. Even if they were always “doing a good job.”
“Megadock” will begin at the theater on September 19th.
