Shia LaBeouf admits to dropping acid for film role

Move over, Daniel Day-Lewis: Shia LaBeouf is taking method acting (and imposing hair growth) to a whole new level.

First, the former Disney Channel star told MTV that he may actually have sex on camera for his role in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: “There’s a disclaimer at the top of the script that basically says, ‘We’re doing it for real,'” LaBeouf said. “Anything that is ‘illegal’ will be shot in blurred images. But other than that, everything is happening… It’s going to be a wild movie, man. It’s going to be a wild movie.”

Now the actor says he also went all the way — in a sense — while making both Mob story The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman and bootlegging saga Lawless. LaBeouf told USA Today that he actually got drunk on moonshine while filming Lawless scenes in which his character did the same. Similarly, LaBeouf claims he really dropped acid to prepare for a Necessary Death scene in which his character trips.

“There’s a way to do an acid trip like Harold & Kumar, and there’s a way to be on acid,” the Disturbia star explained. “What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that [electric] chair in Dead Man Walking. These are the guys that I look up to.” He neglected to mention that Penn wasn’t really electrocuted.

What dedication to his craft! Not just any actor would have sex or take drugs purely for research purposes. Imagine what might have happened if LaBeouf has always been this devoted to verisimilitude. He actually made friends with a robot car for Transformers! He really impregnated Carey Mulligan during Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps! He reverse-Flowers-For-Algernon‘d himself for the Disney Channel original movie Tru Confessions! The possibilities are endless — unless LaBeouf is only committed to doing the fun stuff.

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