A Shia LaBeouf interview is always going to be ripe with minable quotes and anecdotes. But wow, my man is really on a Jaden Smith or, dare I say, Kanye West level here. Just about every answer in this interview with Shia and his artistic collaborators Rönkkö and Turner with whom he staged the #AllMyMovies art installation/Shia's Films Festival/insomnia movie theater experiment with is golden.
To summarize, Shia goes into detail about his own loneliness and self-loathing and the ways in which #AllMyMovies helped him conquer those feelings, if even temporarily. There's also talk about the feelings of exclusion within the film world and the art world proper and how he and NewHive are working to break down those boundaries. There are also some interesting details about the way they approached the project overall, like picking the smallest theater on purpose and apparently turning away celebrities who asked to attend and skip the line. But the ways in which Shia (and at some points, Rönkkö and Turner as well) manifest these opinions is simply amazing. These are some of the highlights:
Shia, contextualizing the ways in which #AllMyMovies helped him love himself and feel loved, through ordering coffee:
On pizza, which can be art (true af fam):
On literally squirming in his seat during his "shit" movies such as Transformers 2, as a genuine, non-performance reaction:
On choosing the smallest theater in the Angelika to heighten the communal experience, for good or bad:
Shia, absolutely nailing why the streets love him in an instant-classic one-liner:
It damn sure is, Shia. Read the full interview here.