Scott Eastwood Recalled A Confusing and 'Volatile' Moment With Shia LaBeouf and Brad Pitt On The Set of 'Fury'
Tensions were apparently running high on the set of David Ayer's Fury in 2014.
In a recent interview with Insider about his new Amazon Prime movie, I Want You Back - also starring Charlie Day and Jenny Slate - actor Scott Eastwood recounted his memory of the time that a simple on-set misunderstanding nearly led to a fight between himself and actor Shia LaBeouf - which Brad Pitt had to break up.
As Pitt himself recounted in a British GQ profile back when the World War II film first released:
"We were driving down the road, I'm in the turret, Shia is at the other turret, and Scott is on the back, spitting juice, and I'm starting to get pissed off...he's disrespecting our home, you know? So I said, in the scene with the cameras rolling, 'You're going to clean that shit up.'"
"Shia clocks it, and you have to understand, we've been through severe boot camp already, we've been through a lot in this tank...So Shia had the same reaction I did, and started having some words."
"The funny thing is, when we got home at the end of the day and read the script, it said Scotty's character is 'chewing tobacco and spitting it on the back of the tank.' He was just doing as instructed in the script! So we were the knobs in the end."
The way Pitt tells it, it's a funny little anectdote - he just had to break up a fight between two actors who got a little too into it on set. But to hear Eastwood tell it is a different story - he was clearly actually afraid at the time.
"He got mad at me and it turned into a volatile moment that Brad Pitt ultimately got in the middle of...I never think your process as an actor should ever hinder how people are treated on set. It should always enhance the production, not take away and put people in a situation where it's a shitty work environment or you're rude or people have to be in an uncomfortable situation.
"You got to put things in perspective. This is make-believe, it's fun, and at times it's serious and you're doing emotional work and you give people space to do that in, but everything has to have its parameters."
Some actors have been known to get lost in their characters and upset their castmates - you may recall, for example, complaints from the cast of the original Suicide Squad, detailing some of the strange "pranks" Jared Leto pulled when playing the Joker.
Some actors can deal with it, others can't - but regardless, we're pretty sure Eastwood won't be working with LaBeouf again anytime soon.
