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 Shia LaBeouf
Spotlight By: Michael Dance You may not have heard of Shia LaBeouf two months ago, but you've certainly heard of him now. The just-barely 21-year-old actor had the lead role in the surprise spring hit Disturbia; he lent his voice to the computer-animated Surfs Up, playing the lead role; and now he's hitting the big screen yet again in the surefire summer blockbuster Transformers. And again, he's the lead role - at least, the lead human role. "You don't even know the magnitude when you first get the part," LaBeouf says. "You don't even really know what you're talking about. It's just all this hypothetical stuff, you know, and then you just start seeing this stuff, I mean, now I've seen the movie, and it's just something to deal with. It's weird." In person, LaBeouf has just the kind of excitable, charming personality that you'd expect from a young guy who suddenly finds himself on top of the world. Luckily he also has a keen sense of himself, and knows how fragile stardom can be. When asked how big he thinks Transformers will be, he actually downplays it. "Who knows what it is. Nobody knows. Movie Gods are funny. Sometimes things happen, and it doesn't work out." Even though he's still relatively new to Hollywood, he's already been around long enough to know that first hand. LaBeouf got his start in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, which ran until 2003. That year, he got his big movie break playing the lead in the Walden Media adaptation of Holes. The flick turned out to be a hit, grossing 67 million dollars in the US. What followed were a few supporting roles in big action movies (I, Robot and Constantine) and some parts in minor movies that disappeared quickly (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Bobby). "Contracts mean nothing if movies don't succeed," LaBeouf continues, warning that talk of a sequel is still premature. "We were all tied in for Constantine contracts and that just didn't happen. Same with I, Robot. Things like that happen. So if the movie isn't successful, there won't be a sequel, and if it is, then we're all here again. I think it's more of a business decision than an artistic one, I think artistically everyone who's involved would love to do another one. That's [screenwriters] Orci and Kurtzman, the whole cast, I mean, all of us. But if it doesn't make any sense for Paramount, we won't be making another one. If it's successful, yeah." It's mentioned that Orci said he didn't want to do another one. LaBeouf laughs. "He says he's done? Yeah, I bet." In Transformers, LaBeouf plays Sam, a nervous, downtrodden teenager whose life mildly changes ... |
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