7 Ways Actors Served Up Brutal Revenge
6. Shia LaBeouf Was Exiled By His Castmates - Fury
Shia LaBeouf is an actor who so often finds himself followed by controversy - usually due to his own making.
For David Ayer's 2014 movie Fury, LaBeouf went too far even by his own standards. In order to prepare for this World War II drama, Shia pulled out one of his teeth, cut his own face, worked with the National Guard, spent a day watching horses die, and didn't shower for four months.
That sort of method acting could be applauded in some circles, but it was LaBeouf's behaviour on-set that was the problem here. In his quest for perfection, the actor found himself driving his castmates insane by consistently trying to prove that he was the most dedicated of the bunch.
After starting to rub his colleagues the wrong way on a frequent basis, star Brad Pitt and director Ayer both told him to calm his behaviour and tone it back. And when LaBeouf didn't listen to these pleas, the cast of Fury got their revenge by having him kicked out of their living quarters.
Said living quarters were often the literal inside of a tank, but so irked were his co-stars, LaBeouf was forced to stay elsewhere, away from the set when not involved in filming.
Why this was a particularly brutal pill for LaBeouf to swallow, is that Fury was supposed to be an experience that was intended to bond its cast. Forced to live every minute of every day together in awful conditions, the rest of the core cast forged a brotherhood that was intended to reflect the kinship so often created by those who have served in the military.
Instead, after acting like such a d*ck, Shia was shunted out of this brotherhood and forced to stay on his own in a tiny hotel room.
Granted, the conditions of a hotel room would usually be preferable to sleeping, eating, and sh**ting in a tank, but not when the whole point of this was to deliver a tight, close relationship with your fellow actors.