Shia LaBeouf was arrested over the weekend for DUI when he attempted to make an illegal left turn and smashed his pickup truck into another vehicle. LaBeouf’s truck rolled over, and he had to be taken to the hospital for hand surgery. “Transformers” co-star Isabel Lucas (a passenger in LaBeouf’s truck) and the driver of the other vehicle were not seriously injured.
Somewhat ironically, LaBeouf is in the new issue of Details Magazine, talking about his drinking habits. LaBeouf admits to drinking and smoking with his heroin-addict father as a kid, and says that he can’t have just one drink. People will make a big deal out of this quote because of the DUI, but it’s really not that bad. Everyone knows that when it comes to beer or Pringles, once you pop, you can’t stop. From the magazine:
LaBeouf’s hand surgery will delay the production of “Transformers 2” for one month. To me,that’s the most unbelievable part of this story. He can still walk and talk, can’t he? As long as he can speak his lines and they can get that Strokes t-shirt on him, there’s no reason to delay the movie. I could understand if Megan Fox’s breasts were injured, but this is no big deal. Believe me, they can film with LaBeouf wearing a cast in random scenes and no one will notice.
Even if someone does notice, what are they going to say? “Having Shia LaBeouf in a cast totally ruined the credibility of that movie about cars turning into giant robots and blowing stuff up?” I don’t know if you’ve seen “Transformers 1,” but there’s no plot. None. They can just add a line in the script where LaBeouf says, “this cast makes me invisible from the robot tractor trailer, so I’m going to wear it in 8 random upcoming scenes!” No one will care. Man, I should really be a director.
