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- August 31, 2022
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Shia LaBeouf is now claiming that he took creative liberties regarding depicting his father as abusive in his 2019 film Honey Boy.
LaBeouf previously said that he wrote the screenplay for Honey Boy while participating in a court-ordered rehabilitation program. Directed by Alma Har’el, Honey Boy was purported to be an autobiographical tale inspired by LaBeouf’s experience as a child actor and his fraught relationship with his father. In the film, LaBeouf played James Lort, a former rodeo clown and father of a child actor, Otis, played by Noah Jupe as a child and Lucas Hedges as an adult. The film depicts James Lort as an alcoholic and abusive to his son. But in a recent appearance on Jon Bernthal’s Real Ones podcast, LaBeouf claimed that he fictionalized much of the script and that his own father did not resemble the character he played.
“Here’s a man who I’ve done vilified on a grand scale,” said the actor, per The Independent. “I wrote this narrative, which was just fucking nonsense. My dad was so loving to me my whole life. Fractured, sure. Crooked, sure. Wonky, for sure. But never was not loving, never was not there. He was always there…and I’d done a world press tour about how fucked he was as a man.”
LaBeouf went on to call the film a “big ‘woe is me’ story about how fucked my father is, and I wronged him.” He claims that he called his father to ask for permission to tell the story, but lied about what he had put in the script. “I remember getting on the phone with him, and him being like, ‘I never read this stuff in the script you sent.’ Because I didn’t put that shit in there,” he said.
He continued: “I turned the knob up on certain shit that wasn’t real,” he said. “My dad never hit me, never. He spanked me once, one time…and the story that gets painted in Honey Boy is this dude is abusing his kid all the time.”
LaBeouf starred in Honey Boy opposite his former partner, the musician FKA Twigs, who is now suing LaBeouf for sexual battery, assault, and infliction of emotional distress, alleging that she suffered “relentless” abuse. In his response to the lawsuit, previously obtained by People, LaBeouf’s legal team said he “denies, generally and specifically, each and every allegation contained” in the complaint. The trial date has reportedly been set for April 17, 2023.
LaBeouf has also admitted to engaging in toxic behavior, telling The New York Times in response to the allegations, “I have been abusive to myself and everyone around me for years. I have a history of hurting the people closest to me. I’m ashamed of that history and am sorry to those I hurt. There is nothing else I can really say.”
LaBeouf recently said that he has more than 600 days of sobriety, while denying Olivia Wilde’s claim that she fired him from her upcoming film Don’t Worry Darling. He also said last week that converting to Catholicism saved his life.
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