Shia LaBeouf Looks Unrecognisable In New Film 'Honey Boy', Playing His Own Father

Shia LaBeouf was photographed having made his most profound and striking character transformation yet, donning a bald cap and glasses to play his real-life father in upcoming movie, Honey Boy.

The 31 year old actor was snapped on the set of the film in an almost unrecognisable get-up for the film, in which he plays his own father, Jeffrey Craig LaBeouf. In photos, he’s riding a motorcycle while wearing a construction vest, while in others he’s seen smoking a cigarette in blue jeans, a brown vest over a jean jacket and construction boots.

The project, which LaBeouf penned himself, is loosely based on his own life, and concerns a child actor trying to repair his relationship with his alcoholic father over the course of ten years, according to Variety.

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‘Honey Boy’, the title, was apparently Shia’s nickname when he was a child. Oscar nominee Lucas Hedges, a star of Manchester By The Sea, will also be in the film, with A Quiet Place’s Noah Jupe portraying a young Shia.

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Shia himself, of course, was a child star in Disney’s ‘Even Stevens’, then becoming the star of the massive Michael Bay franchise Transformers. In recent years, he’s ran into a number of troubles, mainly becoming memorable for pulling a series of bizarre art stunts with friends Luke Turner and Nastja Ronkko.

Honey Boy will be the first new movie role for the often-eccentric LaBeouf since his much-publicised arrest in Georgia in July 2017. Launching into a racist and drunken tirade against the arresting officers, the incident was captured on camera and went viral extremely quickly.

“What went on in Georgia was mortifying,” he told Esquire a few months ago, in his first sit-down since the arrest, calling it a mixture of “white privilege and desperation and disaster. I f***ed up.”

LaBeouf’s last film appearance was his depiction as American tennis champ John McEnroe in Borg vs. McEnroe, which made its debut in September last year.

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