At this point, Shia LaBeouf’s as famous for playing Shia LaBeouf as he is for any of his other roles. He’s constantly performing as himself in public, whether that means wearing a paper bag to the red carpet or inviting the public to watch him watch his own movies.
Honey Boy, in a lot of ways, feels like the logical extension of that art. It’s written by LaBeouf, based on his own experiences as a child star, with LaBeouf playing the fictionalized version of his own father. It’s so meta, there’s a scene LaBeouf has in this very screenplay explained to him by an actor (Lucas Hedges) playing an analogue of his own mid-’00s self. Read more…
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