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[h1]Shia’s booze method[/h1]
Posted: 12:06 AM, August 15, 2012
Shia LaBeouf, dubbed “Hollywood’s bad boy,” gave up the booze after a series of incidents including a bar brawl and a car accident — but says he’s such a dedicated method actor, he drank moonshine for his role as a Prohibition-era bootlegger in “Lawless.” “My drinking on this movie was as undestructive as I could possibly make it, if that makes sense,” he told us at a Cinema Society and Manifesto Yves Saint Laurent party Monday. “I did it for the movie. I didn’t drink off set for no reason. I did it because, when I showed up on set the next day, my [bleep]ing eyes looked like this and my face . . . had that drunk bloat that I needed, that I couldn’t have if that wasn’t going on.” LaBoeuf noted, [COLOR=#red]“Moonshine is different than liquor. Moonshine is closer to heroin.”[/COLOR] He told us at McKittrick Hotel rooftop bar Gallow Green that he was so in character, [COLOR=#red]he frightened co-star Mia Wasikowska. “She was calling her attorney, like, ‘Get me the [bleep] out of here,’[/COLOR] ” he said. Although they became friends, “Mia was ready to walk away from the movie. I was really pretty aggressive about it, and not in any kind of weird, strange way, but I don’t think she had ever experienced anything like that.”
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Shia LaBeouf