In his most recent film, Shia LaBeouf claims he has found God with the help of David Ayers and Brad Pitt.
In an interview back in September, 28-year-old actor Shia LaBeouf shared his recent acceptance of the Christian faith. Interview magazine released the interview with Mr. LaBeouf, who says he “found God” during the making of his most recent film Fury, in which he plays the character Boyd “Bible” Swan.
The actor gave insight to his lifestyle, prior to the movie. Shia LaBeouf had been experiencing turbulence in his life and generously revealed his own search for meaning. He was accused of plagiarism, used plagiarized apologies in response to the accusation, went through rehabilitation, and experienced other dramatic events.
“I'm going through it myself. I've been going through an existential crisis. If you look at my behavior, it's been motivated by a certain discourse. Metamodernism has influenced a lot of my action in the public in this last year and a half—the idea of diametrically opposed ideas happening all at once: the irony and the sincerity, birth and death, the immediacy and the obsolescence,” he explained.
“It's a feeling that comes after deconstruction: the ripping apart, or the going to [expletive] of a society, the environmental crisis, the financial crisis, the existential crisis. Metamodernism is the feeling that comes after that,” he said.
He explained his discovery of faith while filming Fury.
“I found God doing Fury. I became a Christian man, and not in a [expletive] [expletive] way—in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page. But it was a real thing that really saved me. And you can't identify unless you're really going through it. It's a full-blown exchange of heart, a surrender of control,” LaBeouf said.
The actor then explained that fellow Fury actor Brad Pitt and the director of the film David Ayer were influential in his discovery of faith. “I had good people around me who helped me,” LaBeouf said.
Pitt, according to LaBeouf, is from a “hyper-religious” Christian family and had rejected the Christian faith, but now believes in an “unnamed spirituality.” Director Ayer was described as a “full subscriber to Christianity.”
“But these two diametrically opposed positions both lead to the same spot, and I really looked up to both men. It was nice to have conversations with Brad about the family he came from and what he was using to get through the day,” said LaBeouf.
The interviewer then commented on the past few films LaBeouf has acted in. In his past five films, LaBeouf played characters that found security in life, and was asked if that was what attracted him to those roles.
“I've been a runner my whole life, running from myself. Whether to movies or drinking and drugging … So it's been an eye-opening thing to have to look at myself, at my life, and have these reflective moments,” he responded.
“These last five movies, I do see the pattern that you're talking about, but I think it has much more to do with universal control than it has to do with my methodical approach to my career. I'd be lying if I said it's the [expletive] plan. It hasn't been that. I've been blessed with a [expletive] life,” he said.
