Every year, hundreds of actors gather in Hollywood to squeeze into the world's largest film scene. From parents who auditioned with a 2-month-old baby to an elderly person, becoming famous and becoming a star has become a lifelong dream for many people.
Jeffrey LaBeouf Jeffrey Craig LaBeouf is also one of the parents of child stars who took their baby to the set and acted as an agent. His son, who began performing stand-up comedy in his early 10s, became the star of the weekly Disney Channel "The Stevens" at the age of 14.
He then starred in Don't Have a Hole in the Sky, less than nineteen years old, and worked with Keanu Reeves, Rachel Witz, and Tilda Swinton to become one of the main actors in Konstantin.
It wasn't long before this cute boy with big smart eyes took on an important role in "Thunderbolt Baby 2" and became a supporting actor who was strongly protected by three angels.
He also had a small role in the sci-fi blockbuster "I, Robot". After this, in "The Saint's Guide", he became the actor of the male protagonist Robert Downey Jr. when he was young.
At the beginning of the 21st century, Jeffrey's son has become Hollywood's most anticipated young actor. Director Spielberg says he reminds himself of Tom Hanks, a young man, who was extremely talented.
Talented child stars, if they encounter Hollywood's big productions, it is difficult not to be hot. In 2007, Jeffrey's son became the male protagonist of the sci-fi action blockbuster Transformers. Yes, Jeffrey's son, the actor who starred in three successive Transformers films, Shia Laboeuf, is Shea LaBeouf.
Young fame, a high starting point, and then encountered a super blockbuster that frequently broke box office records, Hiya's success can almost be said to be textbook smooth, making countless star fathers and mothers envious.
However, after the release of "Transformers 3" 9 years ago, Hiya seemed to disappear from the big screen. Negative news such as fighting, arrest, alcoholism, court appearances, tweets to retire, and bizarre performances on the red carpet made him stand in the whirlpool of public opinion.
It wasn't until the release of the semi-autobiographical film Honey Boy, written and starring in the St. Denis Film Festival last January, that people understood why he was so out of control after his popularity. It turns out that Hiya's father, Jeffrey, is the driving force behind many stories.
The beginning of the broken
The extremely bad and complicated paternity, the broken family and childhood, the trauma left by the mental and physical violence experienced since childhood, are the nightmares that Shea has experienced repeatedly for 33 years.
Born in Los Angeles, California, he was the only son in a family, his mother was a Jewish dancer, and his father was a Vietnam War veteran, who returned to the United States and changed jobs several times, living with alcohol and drugs all day long. In order to earn money, he also became a professional clown, specializing in amusing people for a living.
Amusing fathers, but unable to amuse their wives and children. As a child, Shea's memories were often of accompanying her father to the abstinence treatment center, or watching her father go in and out of the drug rehabilitation center.
When he was crazy, his father even recalled the war unconscious after getting drunk, and raised his gun to aim at the head of little Hiya, threatening to kill him. The double violence of spirit and language eventually led to the marriage of Shea's parents ending in divorce. He and his mother depended on each other, and when they were poor, the family could only sell cloth and jewelry on the street.
Going to comedy clubs to perform stand-up comedy became An exit for Hiya to escape from her shattered life. Precocious children start talking about it, which is hilarious. Lucky enough to pass the Disney audition, he became a child star with a steady income. But a stable income does not solve the thunder planted in childhood.
In an interview with Esquire magazine last year, Hiya said: "When I was 9 years old, I saw my mother being sexually assaulted, the man ran away, my mother chased after me, and the neighbors also ran out to help, with bows and arrows in their hands. But no one caught him. Later, when I went to the rehab center, the psychologist told me that I had PTSD, which explained why I always clashed with others frequently, because I always had the idea of 'revenge for my mother'. ”
In addition to the mental disorder of wanting to avenge her mother, after Xia began acting, the complicated relationship with her father became more complicated.
Crazy expression
Despite his parents' divorce, Shea's father, Jeffrey, still kept in touch with his mother and son, and temporarily became an agent in his filming of "The Stephens", following his son around in various crews, but his alcohol and drug problems still did not improve. Hiya said: "Dad is as stubborn as a nail, and his personality is very visible. ”
(Shea's father once tried to sexually assault a woman after getting drunk.
Registration of sex offender sexual assault was done. ）
In 2003, at the age of 17, Shea was admitted to Yale University, but decided to give up for the sake of acting vision. But when he became an adult, his father was no longer inseparable, and while fame and fortune struck, Xia also began to frequently go out of trouble.
At the age of 19, when Shea saw her mother's car being wiped up in the parking lot, she fought back and beat the other party, resulting in her arrest. The year after the release of Transformers, he was revoked for drunk driving and had his hand surgery. In 2011, the year Transformers 3 was released, he was fighting in a Los Angeles pub and was arrested.
Irritability, irritability, and self-destructive tendencies became the label of Hiya. He went from being a Hollywood golden boy to a "rat" who shouted and beat him across the street. After abandoning Transformers 4, he became a child star banished by Hollywood. In a later interview, Kosia said: "I probably always wanted to escape. ”
The escaped Hiya, turned around and threw herself into the art world, and once again created a big topic.
In 2014, he collaborated with British artist Luke Turuner and Finnish artist Nastja Säde Rönkkö to create a series of performance artworks that explore the relationship between fame and fragility.
On the red carpet of the Berlin Film Festival, Shia appeared in a brown paper bag with the words "I am no longer famous", causing a sensation. People say he's crazy. That same year, Shea wore the same paper bag for six days in a row in a gallery in Los Angeles, sitting quietly in front of the viewer and crying.
The expression of eagerness, the performance of anti-fame, took it to a new level in 2015. In the half-hour video work that Hiya and the artists collaborated on, the picture of him yelling "Just Do It" at the screen was unbelievable, but it also poked the laughter of many people. This video became the first place in the 2015 Google GIF search list.
That same year, Shea spent three days in a theater in New York, watching her movies from childhood to adulthood with the audience, while also broadcasting her own reactions. A "crazy" Hollywood child star, this label, is crucified.
（elastic heart MV https://c.y.qq.com/base/fcgi-bin/u?__=Jp2Tdnw）
(In 2015, Shia starred in Sia's "Elastic Heart" MV, and some netizens said that the content was like the relationship between father and child in a violent family, full of love and torture.) ）
Love letter to my father
Fast forward to July 2017, When Shea, who had not been released for a long time, was filming the movie "Peanut Butter Falcon" in Georgia, she was arrested for drunken trouble. He was eventually sentenced to a one-year suspended sentence and had to undergo psychotherapy and anger management.
At the rehab center, Shea, on the advice of her doctor, began to keep a diary and recall the trajectory of her life. These memories eventually became the prototype of the script of "Baby Boy".
Speaking at the Toronto Film Festival last September, he said: "There I realized my past, saw my soul, and struggled to understand myself as if I were molting." At the same time as writing this script, I was also healing myself, which is a way to face the unfinished pain. ”
Shea played the role of father in the film, revolving around the memories of filming the TV series as a child, telling about his father's verbal and physical violence, and also trying to understand the pain his father experienced and the reason for his eccentric personality.
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Dissecting himself bluntly and writing the story into a script, when Xia made the film, everyone could feel the pain of revisiting his childhood. Alma Har'el, the film's director, said: "It was probably the longest 19 days of my life, and every day was like breathing pain, and finally turning that pain into love. ”
After the film was screened at the St. Denis Film Festival, it received many awards, and many people finally understood the reason for Shea's "crazy" behavior for so many years. He later said on the "Allen Show": "I showed My dad a movie and he cried. This is my love letter to Dad. ”
Baby Boy, Honey Boy, is actually the nickname his father gave him.
On Sunday, Hiya made a rare Appearance at the Oscars, where she was a guest of honor along with Zack Gottsagen, the actor with Down syndrome in the previous film "Peanut Butter Falcon.". Dressed in a suit, smiling and greeting, No longer "crazy" and running away, Hiya spent a long time facing childhood trauma and Vanity Fair.