Shia LaBeouf will be seen in the upcoming Italian-German biographical drama film Padre Pio which is set to have its initial release in September 2022. He has also been in the news recently after director Olivia Wilde made a revelation about him. 

In an interview with Variety, Director Olivia Wilde said that she decided initially to cast Florence Pugh and Harry Styles in the film Don’t Worry Darling. But due to schedule conflict, she made a quick decision and decided to cast Shia LaBeouf in the role. 

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But the director had fired Shia LaBeouf during the first week of production in 2020 and he was sued for sexual, physical and psychological abuse of FKA Twigs. 

Olivia Wilde parted ways with LaBeouf in the early stages of production due to his “combative energy”. The director also opened up about the lawsuit that had been filed against LaBeouf by his former partner FKA Twigs.

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Who is Shia LaBeouf? 

Born in 1986, Shia LaBeouf is an American actor and filmmaker. He was raised in California and his mother was a jewelry designer by profession and his father was a Vietnam war veteran. 

He earned a lot of recognition at the age of 14 with Disney Channel’s series Even Stevens. He also won a Daytime Emmy for his role on the show in 2003. 

He got his first major break in Hollywood with the film The Christmas Path in 1998.  In 2003, LaBeouf made his theatrical film debut in Holes and also appeared as a lead in The Battle of Shaker Heights that same year.

By 2005, LaBeouf made his transition into more mature roles with The Greatest Game Ever Played. He starred as the lead in Disturbia and Transformers, and in 2006, he appeared in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. 

LaBeouf also reprised his role as Sam Witwicky in the Transformers sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and appeared in New York, I Love You. 

Apart from acting in film and TV shows, he also appeared in a music video titled Fjogur Piano. LaBeouf has created three short graphic novels Stale N Mate, Cyclical, and Let’s Fucking Party, and a webcomic series, Cheek Up’s. 

He married English actress Mia Goth on October 10, 2016, in Las Vegas. But the couple announced their divorce in September 2018. 

This actor has been associated with many controversies, one of which is at the Berlin Film Festival where he arrived wearing a brown paper bag over his head. The bag had the words “I am not Famous Anymore” written on it. This created a huge buzz among the audience.