Shia LaBeouf Wanted to ‘Make Amends’ with “Megalopolis” Costar Jon Voight After Their Near-Fistfight Over Politics

Shia LaBeouf and Jon Voight had to find communal crushed earlier costarring successful Megalopolis, a caller documentary reveals. 

Megadoc (in theaters Friday, Sept. 19), from head Mike Figgis, includes interviews pinch LaBeouf, 39, Voight, 86, and much astir Francis Ford Coppola’s 2024 imagination epic. The documentary covers nan behind-the-scenes play connected nan legendary filmmaker’s self-financed passion project, including nan revelation that 2 of its stars had anterior hostility to clear up. 

“I had fundamentally f---ed my full life up,” says LaBeouf successful Megadoc, recalling nan opening of Megalopolis’ accumulation successful 2022 (not agelong aft nan actor’s ex-girlfriend FKA twigs filed a 2020 lawsuit, since dropped, accusing him of sexual, beingness and affectional abuse).

“So I was successful nan midst of doing this ninth measurement successful this programme I’m in, and I had to spell make amends to Voight,” continues LaBeouf, who calls nan Coming Home Oscar winner’s right-leaning politics “very different” from his own. “I emotion him very much, he was for illustration my mentor from a young age,” he adds of Voight, who starred pinch LaBeouf successful 2003’s Holes and 2007’s Transformers. 

That narration apparently deed a roadblock successful nan past, nan Honey Boy writer-star tells Figgis successful Megadoc. He and Voight "had a large conflict connected nan phone, wherever I told him I was going to travel to his location and we’re going to fistfight. And I hung up nan telephone and didn’t talk to him for years.” 

As LaBeouf remembers it, Voight was instrumental successful getting him formed successful Megalopolis aft nan 2 had made up. “He says, ‘I dream you’ll travel pinch us,’ ” says nan actor. “And I’m thinking, ‘I emotion you, but you’re delusional.’ I was beyond persona non grata, I was nuclear.”

Megadoc intercuts LaBeouf’s question and reply pinch footage of nan theatre games that Coppola, 86, had his formed do successful rehearsals arsenic bonding exercises; successful 1 scene, LaBeouf tin beryllium seen (in characteristic arsenic Clodio Pulcher) saying to Voight (as Hamilton Crassus III), “I emotion you very much.” 

The Godfather filmmaker took a workshop-like attack to Megalopolis, encouraging actors to improvise wrong a loose script, arsenic Figgis’ documentary shows. Adam Driver led nan writer-director’s historically inspired epic alongside LaBeouf, Voight, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Giancarlo Esposito, Laurence Fishburne, Jason Schwartzman, Talia Shire and more. 

Later successful Megadoc, Coppola comments connected moving pinch galore of his actors, including LaBeouf. “He drove maine nuts but his capacity is great," he says.

LaBeouf, however, recalls a blowout conflict he had pinch Coppola astatine 1 constituent during Megalopolis’ production. The Apocalypse Now director, LaBeouf recalls, called him “the biggest symptom successful my f------ ass of immoderate character I've ever worked with."

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Following premieres astatine nan Venice and Telluride Film Festivals successful August, Megadoc is successful theaters Sept. 19.