Things are looking up for the young actor, who has starred in two number one films this year. In the midst of all the success of Transformers Shia LeBeouf begins work on of the most popular franchises in film history, the Indiana Jones series.
CraveOnline: Before they announced it, you had some specific concerns about what kind of character you wanted. Are you happy with how the character turned out?
Shia LaBeouf: I still haven’t read the script.
CraveOnline: But you said you don't just want to be comic relief. How nice is it to be able to make those demands with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas?
Shia LaBeouf: Well, you don’t make any demands to Steven Spielberg. You just say, "Yeah, all right, great. That sounds like a good thing to me." And Lucas isn’t involved as Spielberg with the actors, it’s all Steven, but I don’t imagine I’ll be questioning anything he says. Of course you have to find your voice as an artist, you have to have the tools, you've got to have some say. But I don’t imagine it’s going to be very easy to say, "You know Steven, I don’t think that’s correct. I think I should do it that way." We’re still trying to figure it out. We haven’t gotten in any rehearsals. It’s just been a lot of stunt rehearsals and weapons training and stuff like that.
CraveOnline: Have you looked in the mirror with a fedora on?
Shia LaBeouf: I don’t think my character will be wearing a fedora.
CraveOnline:How is that stunt training going?
Shia LaBeouf: Great.
CraveOnline: When do you start filming?
Shia LaBeouf: Probably late June I imagine.
CraveOnline: What was your experience hosting Saturday Night Live and doing the Sofa King sketch?
Shia LaBeouf: We had a lot of skits we didn’t get to do. We plan like 12 and we only do eight or nine. And that skit barely made it in, but I remember we were in the final meeting. It’s crazy when you are in the final meeting and all. And Lorne was on the cusp about it and he said to the writers, "All right, fine. If the actors say, ‘So f*cking’ instead of ‘Sofa King,’ and people at the ratings board say, ‘Okay, we are going to slap you with a $100,000 fine’ you are going to pay for it.’ And the writer was like, "Uhhhhh. Okay, fine.’ And we wound up doing it. But for a second there we weren’t going to do the skit, because he didn’t want to wind up paying $100,000.
CraveOnline:I know you have taken some bigger roles to get your smaller movies funded. Are there any pet projects you’re working on you think you might do after Indy?
Shia LaBeouf: Yeah, there are a couple of them. None of them are fully developed to the point where I’d want to start tell you guys about it. But, yeah, there are a handful of things that you start, especially when something like Disturbia happens, it’s one of those things you think about. You go, "Oh, Okay. Your movie opened and the industry will let you make a small little movie. So, start coming up with ideas." So, you start brainstorming with your team and people start finding books and other things and properties that you are involved in. Or life stories that you are really interested in.
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