In 2014, a year after Shia LaBeouf left “Orphans,” Alec Baldwin opened up about their feud. According to Baldwin, the first of their kerfuffles started their first day working together. “There was friction between us from the beginning,” Baldwin told Vulture in an interview. “LaBeouf seems to carry with him, to put it mildly, a jailhouse mentality wherever he goes.”
The “Glengarry Glen Ross” actor detailed how LaBeouf allegedly entered the production with his lines already memorized. (LaBeouf had also purportedly emailed Baldwin a video of himself performing the lines prior to rehearsal.) Baldwin recalled how the “Fury” star supposedly used his preparedness to start a fight. “You could tell right away he loves to argue,” Baldwin recounted. “And one day he attacked me in front of everyone. He said, ‘You’re slowing me down, and you don’t know your lines.'” Per Baldwin, LaBeouf threatened to keep blurting out Baldwin’s own lines if the actor could not keep pace.
LaBeouf later confirmed Baldwin’s account, revealing he had done so in order to “intimidate” Baldwin. “I wanted him to be scared,” LaBeouf told Interview in October 2014. “So I went about doing that for three weeks of rehearsal.” LaBeouf was apparently so lost in his “Orphans” character that he stalked Baldwin after production stopped. “I was following him home. I was completely broken, and still in [character],” he later added.
