“It was kind of incredible to see that Shia [identified more] with his father than with his own character,' HoneyBoy director Almaharel told ELLE. 'He refused to come to set anytime he wasn’t in a scene; he didn’t want to control how we portrayed him.”
, she knew the stakes for star Shia LaBeouf were dangerously high. LaBeouf had written the autobiographical script during a court-mandated stint in rehab following a drunken altercation with police in 2017—one of several such reputation-tarnishing incidents over the last decade. “[Shia] was scared he might never work again,” says the Israeli American director. “There was a lot on the line: his mental health, his sobriety, his relationship with his father, and his career.
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