When I’m not on sets, life gets hard: Shia LaBeouf addicted to acting
Actor Shia LaBeouf opened up about his obsession with acting, saying that he is “deeply dissatisfied” when he is not on film sets.
While exchanging dialogue with the Twilight franchise alum, Kristen Stewart, for Variety Studio: Actors on Actors, LaBeouf revealed that “life gets hard” when he isn’t on sets.
“The most intimate moments of my whole life happened on set,” the Transformers actor said, adding, “I don’t know if there’s anything more intimate than creating something with somebody. I think I’m deeply dissatisfied in life.”
When Stewart said this was his life, the 33-year-old replied, “When I’m not on a set, life gets hard... This is where things get tricky for me; it isn’t my whole life. I have to get okay with that. That’s usually where things go awry for me.”
On being asked if he does anything else like a hobby, he replied in the negative. “No, this is why I’m trying to develop. Trying to grow... Take a pottery class. Like people in existential crisis, ‘dude, just take a pottery class about it’,” he shared.
Taking the conversation back to being on set, LaBeouf added that he would love “pottery on set”. “Maybe I will. I won’t like pottery in life, but I will love pottery on set. Like I don’t like ice-cream in life, but if you give me ice-cream on a set, I f**ing love ice-cream,” he told Stewart.
“I think that’s what [acting] does for me. It makes me love things. It feels like the conduit for love to me. I hold it that sacred,” added the actor, who will star opposite Vanessa Kirby in the semiautobiographical drama Pieces of a Woman.
SHIA LABEOUF SAYS HE FEELS ‘DEEPLY DISSATISFIED’ IN HIS LIFE AND ADDS THAT THE MOST INTIMATE MOMENTS OF HIS LIFE HAPPENED ON SET