{"id":147581,"date":"2025-09-16T07:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/147581\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T07:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:41:07","slug":"shia-labeouf-jon-voight-fought-over-politics-didnt-talk-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/147581\/","title":{"rendered":"Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight Fought Over Politics; DIdn’t Talk for Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tShia LaBeouf<\/a> reveals in the upcoming documentary \u201cMegadoc\u201d that he had a huge falling out with former co-star and mentor Jon Voight<\/a> and did not speak to him for years until the making of \u201cMegalopolis,\u201d where they were forced to put their differences aside and rekindle their friendship (via Entertainment Weekly<\/a>). LaBeouf identified \u201cvery different politics\u201d as the source of their fight.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe first version [of the script] I read was about five years ago. [Coppola] did a table read. And in the time from that read to this film, I had basically fucked my whole life up,\u201d LaBeouf says in the movie. \u201cI was in the midst of doing my ninth step in this program I\u2019m in, and I had to go make amends to Voight because Voight\u2019s politics and mine are very different. I love him very much.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLaBeouf and Voight first worked together in 2003\u2019s \u201cHoles\u201d and teamed up again in 2007\u2019s \u201cTransformers.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe was like my mentor from a young age,\u201d LaBeouf says of his co-star. \u201cHe was like the first real actor I ever met, and he\u2019s the first one who put me on to [Dustin] Hoffman\u2019s repertoire\u2026 He would sit in a room with me and watch all these movies back to back, and [that] made me fall in love with the process and the craft, because before that, I was just a poor kid making money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Voight has become an outspoken Trump supporter over the years and was recently named one of Trump\u2019s special envoys to Hollywood alongside Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson. While LaBeouf doesn\u2019t mention Voight\u2019s Trump affiliation, he does cite politics as a reason for a falling out between them.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe had a big fight on the phone where I told him I was going to come to his house and we were going to fist fight, and I hung up the phone,\u201d LaBeouf says. \u201cDidn\u2019t talk to him for years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety reported out of Venice<\/a> that \u201cMegadoc\u201d also includes \u201cMegalopolis\u201d director Francis Ford Coppola getting honest about the difficulties of working with LaBeouf, whose own career has largely been sidelined in Hollywood following his erratic behavior and a sexual misconduct lawsuit filed against him by FKA Twigs. The lawsuit was settled<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n

\n\tPer Variety: \u201cThe film documents how tensions mounted between LaBeouf and Coppola, to the point where the latter abandoned set before a scene after LaBeouf asked one question two many about some inconsistency in the story. While speaking in the movie, LaBeouf is still shocked that Coppola called him the \u2018biggest pain in his fucking ass,\u2019 but shares that the director sent him a long email to apologize the next day, admitting that he had lost his temper but thanked him for \u2018doing a good job,\u2019 even if they will always have \u2018two different viewpoints\u2019 on pretty much everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMegadoc\u201d opens in theaters Sept. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shia LaBeouf reveals in the upcoming documentary \u201cMegadoc\u201d that he had a huge falling out with former co-star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,78725,14595],"class_list":{"0":"post-147581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-jon-voight","12":"tag-shia-labeouf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}