So, this whole Shia LaBeouf/Tom Hardy feud is a bit gossip-y, but it's also hysterical, and damn if Hardy's response to the whole thing didn't make me smile. So here's a recap of what's been going down. Warning: if you like Shia LaBeouf, your opinion might change by the end of this.
LaBeouf was the coverboy for Details magazine last month as a part of his promotion for Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, and managed to come across as a horrible person all around, spilling the beans on how he slept with Megan Fox and generally striving to appear as a rebellious soul when in fact he seems more like someone who would be impossible to stand in polite company; the levels of douchiness are almost toxic, even in print. Here's him discussing his thoughts on money and how he's a much better person than his The Wettest County In The World co-star Jason Clarke:
At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn’t spend the money I’ve accrued now. (But) I have no interest in the materialistic bullshit money can buy.They’re talking about Ferraris and shit, like it’s a cool car. If Clarke pulled up in a Ferrari right now, my idea wouldn’t be, ‘What a cool fucking guy!’ It would be, ‘Look at this clown.’ I think the fact that I despise that stuff keeps me safe. I hang on to my dirt. I like my dirt.
Before you can say "cool story bro," he comes back with a memorable quote regarding a supposed fight between him and Tom Hardy on the set of the same film (which is coming out in 2012), saying that the fight started over a supposed joke and that after it was over "he never did that roughhouse stuff with me again."
That is, of course, automatically hilarious, because, well, look at Tom Hardy and look at Shia LaBeouf. LaBeouf's like five feet tall. Hardy has biceps bigger than Shia's head. I'm not seeing how the math works out in LaBeouf's favor in any way possible. Surprisingly enough, that caused the intrepid reports over at Den of Geek to go back to their notes from a roundtable interview they recently did with Hardy, when he commented on the fight himself, "confirming" that he had been knocked out by LaBeouf.
I got knocked out by Shia LaBeouf, actually. In Wettest County, apparently. Behind the scenes. No, he did. He knocked me out sparko. Out cold. He's a bad, bad boy. He is. He's quite intimidating as well. He's a scary dude. He just attacked me. He was drinking moonshine. I was wearing a cardigan, and er, went down. I woke up in Pnut's arms. [Pnut is Hardy's personal trainer.] He was concerned for me. I was like, ‘What was that? It was lightning fast.' And he said, ‘That was Shia.' I said, ‘Fuckin' hell. Can we go home now?' ‘No, we've still got three weeks to finish.'
One gets the sense that Hardy's tongue was in danger of busting through his cheek by the end of this. Those comments came before LaBeouf's Details interview came to light, so hopefully someone can get Hardy to come clean about what really transpired, but I have a feeling that LaBeouf's self-aggrandizement belies a classic short man's syndrome. Either way, if Hardy did actually pick a fight with LaBeouf, that just makes our man-crush on him all the more intense.
