Shia Labeouf Disowns ‘Honey Boy’ Script He Wrote: I ‘Vilified’ Dad with ‘F*cking Nonsense’ Abuse Depiction

Shia Labeouf is finding “Holes” in his own autobiographical film.The “Padre Pio” actor wrote and starred in 2019 film “Honey Boy” detailing his childhood stardom and fraught relationship with his abusive father, whom Labeouf portrayed in the movie.

Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges play younger versions of Labeouf in the film directed by Alma Har’el (“Lady in the Lake“).“Disturbia” actor Labeouf penned the screenplay in 2017 after staying in a court-ordered rehab center in Connecticut, where he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Labeouf’s therapist encouraged him to write about the traumatic trigger of his upbringing: living with his ex-convict father in a San Fernando Valley motel.Now, three years after the film’s release, Labeouf explained during Jon Bernthal’s “Real Ones” podcast that “Honey Boy” took creative liberties with the character of his father and is not an autobiographical account of Labeouf’s childhood.“I wrote this narrative,

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