Shia LaBeouf was interviewed by Details Mag and it went on to tell about his vices and drinking problems and getting arrested for smoking etc etc etc, how he reads movie review websites and forums about himself, and his meteoric rise to the A-list. The sad part is this somewhat recent interview - all of a sudden reads as woefully outdated with the recent DUI - car accident debacle. I mean it’s still a great read if you are interested in Shia and the kid’s interesting. Shiet we’re both into the same music scene - which he admits to ’shelving’ for the sake of his now PR-image managed Hollywood career (where you cater to middle America instead of to the cooler things in life: emo-rap).

Excerpt:

If you ever have reason to meet Shia LaBeouf, you should be prepared to be addressed as “boss.” Or “bro,” or “man,” or “baby,” or possibly “son,” depending on how much you know about hip-hop. “Hey, boss,” LaBeouf says to the guy behind the counter at a Santa Monica restaurant one afternoon in late May, “is it cool if we just get a couple of coffees and sit outside?”

It’s hard to tell whether the waiter recognizes him. LaBeouf is doing reshoots for this month’s Eagle Eye, directed by D.J. Caruso—it’s a highbrow thriller about two Americans framed as political assassins by a terrorist cell—so he has a little more scruff than usual, and with his cap pulled down far enough he could be any underemployed L.A. actor getting his caffeine fix. He’s wearing skinnyish black jeans, a threadbare Emerson, Lake & Palmer T-shirt, and beat-up brown Nike Cortezes. His girlish eyelashes, cheeks, and mouth are obscured by the beard and the cap, which makes him look older than he does in the YouTube video that made the rounds in the spring—the one of him drunkenly calling his friend a “faggot” and begging to be slapped in the face. But LaBeouf’s swagger—the “boss”ing and “man”ing—suggests fresh confidence, the kind that comes from having recently had your name attached to two blockbuster franchises. It also suggests some defensiveness. That “faggot” video, plus a misdemeanor arrest and a few other glancing blows this year to his still-developing image, has made him zip himself up a little tighter. While once he publicly joked about his regrettable movie choices, like Dumber and Dumberer, and break-danced with abandon for Craig Kilborn, LaBeouf is more inhibited now, more likely to use terms like role model.

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