Name: Shia LaBeouf Gets HONEST About Filming Megalopolis
Uploaded: 2025-06-13T17:05:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Shia LaBeouf Gets HONEST About Filming Megalopolis' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-13. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Shia LaBeouf Gets HONEST About Filming Megalopolis' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-13. Transcript available.

i just came off of coppola land this is a guy who's got power he can make the
entire industry
flex like he'll make them all turn based on did you like the movie no but but i
love him you know
yeah yeah and we fought all through the thing because it wasn't my dream and i
was trying to
learn his dream which you're always trying to do when you're on a movie you're
trying to learn your
guy's dream sometimes those dreams aren't easily accessible sometimes you feel
like you're not old
enough to get to the dream with with me and him it felt like that it felt like
oh you know i don't
know about you know because i'm a baby and you don't live the life you know so
i would acquiesce
to him but i remember he could he could make the industry move you know because
he had that kind
of power and then i look at his accomplishments and then i look at dave's
accomplishments and i don't
see this drastic divide i feel like you know i respect the stuff dave did as
much as i respect
the stuff francis did but francis had the shot to get to the audience they kind
of made a clear path
for him you know he was like the darling of the industry right and so um i don't
know how many
resident geniuses you boys have but i don't have any you know yeah the fact
that i know dave
feels like some kind of miracle so then it was like oh well if i could just
work on dave's stuff
forever that would be a dream come true oh wow yeah so then it was like how do
we give dave a channel
how do you get dave his own dave mammoth channel yeah that's how the
conversation dragged me into it so
what we discovered is you don't need hollywood you don't need a bunch of money
you need some talent you
need an idea and you need a telephone funny to hear you talk about talent
because uh
that's very funny to hear you talk about talent anybody who's david mammoth fan
talent's not a big
david mammoth word persistence you know like just like grinding throwing water
at the same
mark on the stone for long enough and eventually it'll happen i think even with
you because i feel like
with you it's like i have to be careful i can't really tell you all the way how
i feel i respect
you too much you know i mean i kind of have to through evan evan because evan
and him are have
have something i didn't have you know i'm not spending every weekend all the
time you know with
dave like that so evan was good at translating things that i couldn't like you
know like i would
just come off too thirsty i think i would scare you because i'd be too
ambitious too thirsty because
when i say stuff like dave i'll do anything you ever want to do i think you're
the greatest writer
it almost sounds like no it's not the first moment the first he goes it's not
bullshit i am the greatest best response ever listen from the first moment we
had a mutual
friend who eventually sold both of us out and he my mutual friend was having a
lunch with shia
and i'd always admired shia's work very very much and i sat down and my mutual
friend says i'll sit
on shia labeouf they've met i say hi shia labeouf why i have such i so admire
you and shia says
that's not necessary her and it just it was shocking it's like you it's
shocking it's like
i saw into who this this wonderful man is in in a second i'm a human being you're
a human being
it's a pleasure to meet you remember that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah what's the
movie called oh henry
johnson henryjohnsonmovie.com that's how you get it it's out now everyone can
watch it now yeah yeah and
then what can you give us a brief synopsis what it's about or i mean i they'd
be better at it the
way i see these two life these two lifelong friends an old guy and an old woman
they've been high school
sweethearts and they've both grown old together but they meet again and their
lives seem to be older
but they go on a road trip and i'm kidding what no no this is this is not some
other thing going on in
his head that's not the thing me we made together i was like this isn't it no
it's about like empathy
it's about uh it's about like overdosing on empathy if i was going to put it in
a sentence that's what i
what i read when i read it was it's about overdosing on it it's about how
empathy can actually
you fully if you if you overdose or like you know you sometimes you know the
dog eating trade in china
i'm just giving you an example of em what i think the movie's about hold on
wait we're getting a dog
eating now no no no no no just let me see me through he hasn't eaten breakfast
yeah yeah yeah
and it's like i i hate these people that you know i mean do this to these kind
animals and then i go to
china right right and i'm like and i'm like oh my god look at this puppy and
the puppy goes all right and
it eats my face right yeah is it like that about that just like that just like
that how do you think
you know am i right or no no yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so it's a so we did this
thing as a play we're
doing it as a movie and it's about a guy who is so compassionate that he ruins
everything around him
and everyone takes advantage of him he ends up going to prison and he ends up
getting his life changed by
the boss con over there and then some happens wow some happens yeah yeah pull
up the site just so we
have it yeah for everybody what is this happens you get like a little fondled
or what what do you mean
me yeah yeah no no no no no no you mean oh you went right there huh it could
have been a it could
have been 5 000 things that's the movie i want to see anyway um okay how long
how long when you're
done filming this how long does it take you to kind of uh clear your head out
of it well i've never done
a play so i still i run these lines in my shower still you do oh yeah they're
so tattooed to your
head i don't know i mean i never i never prepped anything like that lines never
really mattered to
me and now you know after working with dave they kind of i don't know he they
don't matter to him
either i didn't know that walking in though you know i walking in i thought you
better get every
fucking comma right well but see that's the trick is the best thing in the
world if you're rehearsing
a play is tell everybody show up learning your lines don't show up if you're
not letter perfect and most
actors don't know that anymore because they've been badly trained and badly
rehearsed for you and they
want to sit down and talk about where they went to school and what their
character for lunch and all this
bullshit so shia because he don't know any better knows better than any of them
just show up learning
the fucking lines because if the actors show up in a rehearsal late day one
learning knowing their lines
what do you do you block the play it takes you three days and then you put it
on yeah yeah yeah that's
it do you say anything like someone like me right i don't know my lines ever
you know what i mean
say what i never know my lines yeah yeah yeah but would you yell at me no i'd
say learn your lines
oh that's it and you would no he wouldn't no you would yeah yes you would i'm
telling you bobby you
would and you'd be great even the magic of mammoth couldn't get this guy no no
i think the both of
you i think the both of you'd be great wait a second but you're a stand-up
comic yes they like
wait a second two guys go into a um
whorehouse of course it's a whorehouse yeah you're going to grow up on the on
the bar the
bar yeah well you got to know your lines right i didn't know your lines oh i
got if you're telling
jokes you got to know your line okay yeah yeah yeah not even lying but you
memorize the bit
you know what i mean we memorize where we need to get to right so it's like
exactly the world the
words around it as long as we can get to the joke yeah what actually makes it
funny yeah that's fine but
you're you guys do line by like word by word right yeah yeah only only only
because it's better
if i could add if i could if i could ad-lib better lines i would yeah and have
on every other show
yeah but when when you're with him of course it's like aaron sorkin him yeah
yeah you don't yeah
there's no need to help yeah yeah i understand i understand yeah yeah
there's no need to help yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah