The 28-year-old actor revealed his relationship with his 'Fury' co-star was spousal, saying, 'I'm his wife, he's my husband. He's daddy, I'm mommy.'
- Oct 21, 2014
AceShowbiz - Shia LaBeouf talked about his friendship with Brad Pitt in an interview with Us Weekly on Sunday, October 19 at the London premiere of "Fury". Asked if Brad was like a father figure for him, the "Transformers" actor replied, "No, I never looked at him like a father figure."
Shia said of Angelina Jolie's husband, "He's like my husband. I'm his wife, he's my husband. He's daddy, I'm mommy. That's how we were in the tank and that's how it still." The "Charlie Countryman" actor added, "[Brad]'s very paternal but he's also an equal. I don't want to paint him as the old guy in the tank, that's not who he is. I mean, he's on the same level as all of us. He just has a lot of wisdom."
Brad, meanwhile, told the site that his relationship with his "Fury" co-stars was more parental. "[I have] a real understanding with the guys," the "Ocean's Thirteen" actor said, "Knowing when they need to vent, knowing when they need to be put in line, knowing when they need to be inspired... to feel where they are, where their moral is, and where they are mentally."
The father of six claimed that his time on the filming site of "Fury" was helpful for him as a real-life parent.
In other news, Shia talked to Interview magazine for its November issue about his painful relationship with his father and how finding God "saved" him.
He said of his father, whom he admitted was a drug dealer, "The only thing my father gave me that was of any value to me is pain. The only time my dad will ever talk to me is when I need him at work. He knows to pick up the Skype phone call, and he knows what I'm looking for. It's not to say 'Hey, Dad.' We manipulate each other. We service each other. I use him when I go to work. It's not a real conversation; it's just an excuse to rev up. He's the marionette puppeteer."
"My dad is the key to most of my base emotions," the "Nymphomaniac" actor added, "My greatest and my worst memories are with my father, all my major trauma and major celebration came from him. It's a negative gift. And I'm not ready to let go of it, because anger has a lot of power. And I financially support his whole lifestyle. I pay him to be my marionette puppeteer."
Shia revealed he got a positive experience while playing a religious soldier in "Fury". "I found God doing 'Fury'," he shared, "I became a Christian man, and not in a f***ing bulls**t way - in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page. But it was a real thing that really saved me."
He continued, "I had good people around me who helped me. Brad was really instrumental in guiding my head through this. Brad comes from a hyper-religious, very deeply Christian, Bible Belt life, and he rejected it and moved toward an unnamed spirituality. Whereas [Fury writer-director] David [Ayers] is a full subscriber to Christianity. But these two diametrically opposed positions both lead to the same spot, and I really looked up to both men."
