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Thu 20 November 2025 15:45, UK
Even though they would have some common ground if they ever had a conversation, not that anybody else would want to hear their discussion about unnecessarily over the top method acting, Jim Carrey and Shia LaBeouf instead ended up at loggerheads for a brief, and incredibly one-sided, feud.
The pair could swap notes on how to over-prepare for a role, with Carrey capable of detailing his needlessly extravagant approach to inhabiting Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon, which sounded like it was a complete and utter pain in the arse for everyone in his orbit, especially that time he held Danny DeVito captive and delayed the start of production, while in character, obviously.
LaBeouf could regale the rubber-faced comedian with how he refused to wash, yanked out his own teeth, and kept cutting a real wound into his face to aid the authenticity of David Ayer’s World War II drama, Fury, an overcommitted approach that, surprise, surprise, made him a complete and utter pain in the arse for everyone in his orbit.
The bad blood between them began at the Golden Globes, when Carrey presented the prize for ‘Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical’. He began by relaying one of the industry’s age-old cliches, and finished by getting a dig in at his soon-to-be nemesis, who’d recently been caught up in the widely publicised plagiarism scandal that saw him try and present ripped-off creations as his own.
“Dying is easy, comedy is hard,” Carrey said. “I believe it was Shia LaBeouf who said that. So young, so wise.” Most people would simply wave off an innocuous joke told at their expense during an awards show, but not the former Transformers star and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull vine-swinger, who tried, and failed, to go for the jugular.
Doing what any reasonable person would do, the actor posted a link on social media to a music video featuring Carrey’s daughter, Jane, who he also started following on Twitter. Coincidentally, she was also the only person her father followed on the platform, which might have been intended as some kind of power move or something. Honestly, who knows with this guy, because it rarely makes any sense.
After that, he called the Ace Ventura frontman’s parenting skills into question in a poorly-worded diatribe, spouting that, “At least I don’t get arrested for indecency on major LA highways! Or abandon love child’s.” For one thing, Carrey has never been arrested for indecency, never mind on a Los Angeles highway, and neither did he abandon his child, something that LaBeouf quickly realised.
He then issued an almost immediate apology, saying that, “Jim Carrey states that he is deeply involved in his daughter’s life, I accept that, regret tweet on the matter. Apologies to both parents.” In a classic LaBeouf move, he plagiarised his atonement almost word-for-word from Rupert Murdoch, who issued a similar missive when he accused Hugh Grant of abandoning his child before recanting.
To make it even clearer who ‘won’ their brief spat, what did Carrey have to say about LaBeouf’s antics? Nothing. It wasn’t even a blip on his radar, and he never acknowledged it in public.
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