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<\/p>\n Director Michael Bay
\n Shia LaBeouf Has Transformed A Lot Over the Years …
\n Here’s What We Talked About Recently<\/p>\n
\n Published
\n September 2, 2026
\n 1:00 AM PDT\n <\/p>\n
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Michael Bay<\/a> says he had a rare conversation with Shia LaBeouf<\/a> just a few months ago that focused on family and the incredible franchise they built together.<\/p>\n The legendary action movie director sat down with TMZ’s Charlie Neff<\/a> for a wide-ranging interview that touched on the “Transformers” star, who has run into a series of legal issues over the last decade-plus.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Just this year alone, Shia has made headlines for being arrested<\/a> down in New Orleans around Mardi Gras and for saying just that he drinks “daily” despite previously going through rehab.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Michael admits the two haven’t talked about Shia’s legal drama … but he notes they did communicate about 6 months ago — and Shia told him he took his daughter, Isabel, on the “Transformers” ride at Universal Studios.<\/p>\n Shia says he got to watch his 4-year-old take in the experience … in essence, seeing the ride through her young eyes — and it brought him to tears.<\/p>\n Play video content<\/p>\n Michael has a message for Shia as well … he says Shia’s a great actor, a great guy, and he treasures the time they spent working together.<\/p>\n Shia played the lead character, Sam Witwicky, in the first three “Transformers” movies — before moving away from big-budget action flicks to focus on smaller independent film roles. A few years after finishing his work on “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” Shia was arrested<\/a> in New York City following his drunken tirade at a Broadway show.<\/p>\n BTW … “Transformers” fans will want to watch the full interview with Michael — available now on YouTube — because he and Charlie also talk about Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime, who passed away just last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Director Michael Bay Shia LaBeouf Has Transformed A Lot Over the Years … Here’s What We Talked About…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-834121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"michael](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/feb12767baf24f0bb8046698d33a28c4_md.jpg\")
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