Shia LaBeouf denies being hit by his father and regrets the ‘Honey Boy’ portrayal

Shia LaBeouf has serious regrets about his movie “Honey Boy,” which was released in 2019 that depicted an inaccurate portrayal of his father. 

Shia LaBeouf’s role in “Honey Boy”

Shia LaBeouf appeared on Jon Bernthal’s podcast “Real Ones,” where he revealed how she wrongly portrayed his father as an abusive one; in the movie, this movie is based on Shia LaBeouf’s childhood and his relationship with his father. 

“Here’s a man who I’ve done vilified on a grand scale,”

According to Bernthal, Shia LaBeouf, who portrayed a father figure in the movie, said.

“I wrote this narrative, which was just f***ing nonsense. My dad was so loving to me my whole life. Fractured, sure. Crooked, sure. Wonky, for sure. But never was not loving, never was not there.”

Shia LaBeouf developed the screenplay

According to the 36-year-old actor who developed the screenplay for “Honey Boy” while he was undergoing therapy in the past, the movie is essentially a “woe is me” account of his life. This narrative of a deeply wounded kid that the audience can relate to. 

In his interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Shia LaBeouf revealed that watching the movie with family was tough. He also accepted that his father never hit him and that his father’s depiction of being abusive is inaccurate. 

“My dad never hit me, never. He spanked me once, one time. And the story that gets painted in ‘Honey Boy is, this dude is abusing his kid all the time,” he admitted. “But that wasn’t my narrative, because it didn’t position me as this wounded, fractured child that you could root for, which is what I was using him for”

He also recently revealed that he had converted entirely to Catholicism and asserted that he accepted responsibility for his part in creating the narrative while also realizing that the picture he painted would likely accompany his father for the rest of his life.

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Shia LaBeouf was fired from the movie

Shia LaBeouf’s revelation about his father came days after he tried to correct Olivia Wilde’s claim he was fired from her film “Don’t Worry Darling.” But Shia LaBeouf claimed he quit the film due to a lack of rehearsal time.  

The actor and new father said that Wilde’s claim could make things worse for him given his struggles, which include abuse claims made by his ex-girlfriend FKA twigs.

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