Scott Eastwood recently revealed that tensions flared between him and fellow actor Shia LaBeouf while they were filming the wartime drama Fury in 2014, almost leading to a physical altercation.
The 40-year-old shared this story during a Monday episode of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard. He credited Brad Pitt, the film’s headliner, for stepping in at the crucial moment to prevent the situation from spiraling.
Reflecting on the incident, the Monterey, California native mentioned on the podcast that, ‘Shia seemed troubled and possibly dealing with his own issues, making things difficult.
‘There was this particular moment – I’ve mentioned it before – where Brad Pitt had to step in and defuse a very tense scenario.’
Scott, the son of legendary filmmaker Clint Eastwood, disclosed that the friction was linked to a scene in which his character, Sergeant Miles, spit on a tank, which brought him and LaBeouf, also 40, into conflict.
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Scott Eastwood, 40, says he and actor Shia LaBeouf, 40, nearly fought while making the 2014 war film Fury, while appearing Monday on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
‘One day, he was having an episode and thought I shouldn’t be spitting tobacco on the tank – which was in the script … and then I finally said enough is enough,’ Eastwood said.
Eastwood said after LaBeouf snapped on him, he ‘said, “F*** you, stop pulling your s***” – I said, “I’m gonna whoop your a**.”‘
He continued, ‘And then he got froggy and everybody broke it up.’
Eastwood said that LaBeouf, who portrayed the role of Boyd ‘Bible’ Swan in the motion picture, had a ‘very method’ approach to playing the tank gunner in the film.
He recalled that LaBeouf ‘pulled out his tooth’ and ‘cut himself’ to get in the mindset for the part.
Eastwood said he remembered thinking, ‘OK, this guy’s crazy. I’m just going to keep clear from this guy.’
He added, ‘I don’t play this game – you go and do that, but there’s plenty of ways to do a performance in a movie and be professional also, right?’
The cast of the David Ayer-directed film also featured Michael Peña, Jon Bernthal and Logan Lerman.
LaBeouf portrayed the role of Boyd ‘Bible’ Swan in the motion picture
Filmmaker David Ayer pictured on the set of the movie with Brad Pitt and LaBeouf
The WWII film hit theaters in the fall of 2014
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Eastwood said in the interview that ‘everyone had moments with Shia that were at one point, gonna come to blows or not.
‘It’s funny, the film industry, it attracts psychopaths because it’s art and business and they kind of intersect,’ he said.
Pitt gave his account of the incident in a November 2014 interview with British GQ.
‘We were driving down the road, I’m in the turret, Shia is at the other turret, and Scott is on the back, spitting juice,’ said the actor, who played Don ‘Wardaddy’ Collier in the film.
He continued: ‘And I’m starting to get pissed off, I’m starting to get hot, because this is our home, he’s disrespecting our home, you know?’
Pitt said that after he told Eastwood he was going ‘to clean that s*** up,’ LaBeouf ‘saw it and felt the same.
‘So Shia had the same reaction I did, and started having some words. But it soon got out of hand, then I had to get in after the cameras were rolling, and explain it to Scotty.’
Pitt clarified that Eastwood ‘was just doing as instructed in the script,’ which called for his character to be ‘chewing tobacco and spitting it on the back of the tank.’