If you were going to pick an actor to punch, it probably wouldn't be a man who has played psychopaths, jaw-breakers and lunatics like Bane, the Kray brothers, Alfie Solomons, Mad Max, Charles Bronson and... well, you get the picture.
But one man who felt no such fear was Shia LaBeouf – and after his 'He Will Not Divide Us' livestream experiment and threats to live in an isolated cabin in lapland, perhaps we should just accept this man lives on a different frequency to the rest of us.
In a new interview with US Esquire, details about some of the on-set antics of the Lawless and American Honey actor have emerged.
"While filming Lawless, he drank moonshine by the gallon, carved a message from his character into the door of Mia Wasikowska’s hotel room, and knocked out Tom Hardy," Eric Sullivan writes.
But that's not it. "On the set of 2013's Charlie Countryman, he dropped acid and choked the director when he tried to break for lunch."
But Hardy doesn't seem to have taken it too badly. Instead, the Bronson and Peaky Blinders actor sympathises with the bizarre moods actors are tasked with taking on.
“A performer is asked to do two things,” he said. “To be disciplined and accountable, communicative and a pleasure to work with. And then, within a split second, they’re asked to be a psychopath. Authentically. It takes a very strong human being to sustain a genuine sense of well-being through that baptism of fire. Drama is not known to attract stable types.”
LeBeouf, whose documentary #TAKEMEANYWHERE is released this year, opened up about the impact his abusive father has had on his life, explaining: "When I got to rehab last year, they said I had PTSD."
He also spoke about being charged with public drunkenness and disorderly conduct last July in Savannah.
"What went on in Georgia was mortifying," he admitted. "White privilege and desperation and disaster. It came from a place of self-centreed delusion. It was me trying to absolve myself of guilt for getting arrested. I f***ed up."
