Shia LaBeouf has opened up about his recent stint in rehab during the screening of Alma Har’el’s documentary, Love True at the Tribeca Film Festival. Sporting a new, long hairstyle the actor appeared at the screening of the documentary by the Bombay Beach filmmaker, which he produced and bankrolled.

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“I just got out of rehab nine months ago, and in rehab they make you do this kind of operatic therapy and you sit with this small group, three or four people, and you work through your s–t and somebody will play your father and somebody will play your mother,” the actor told the audience.

“For me, it was like method acting. You rarely get that on a film set because film sets get so large that you have people looking at you like you’re just a --ing actor.”

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Later speaking to Variety, LaBeouf went into more detail about his involvement in the doc. “The best art comes out of pain,” he said. “When a genius has pain, the Warren Buffett in me is like, ‘Go.’ Not that there’s a big Warren Buffett in me or anything or that I got into this for financial s–t.”

The actor also added he took a hands-off approach when producing the doc, having previously experienced producers who feel they’ve paid to have an opinion.

Conversation also turned to LaBeouf’s turbulent time in the spotlight as of late and his relationship with fame. The 28 year old, who has withdrawn form public life in recent months, reflected on the modern status of celebrity saying, “As a celebrity/star I am not an individual — I am a spectacular representation of a living human being, the opposite of an individual. The enemy of the individual, in myself as well as in others.”

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“The celebrity/star is the object of identification, with the shallow seeming life that has to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations which are actually lived. The requirements to being a star/celebrity are namely, you must become an enslaved body,” the actor continued.

“The star is a byproduct of the machine age, a relic of modernist ideals. It’s outmoded.” However LaBoeuf’s relationship with fame doesn't mean he’ll be giving up acting, “I started acting as a child. It has been a long time since I’ve known another way,” LaBeouf added.