The 'Fury' actor says to become a star/celebrity, 'you must become an enslaved body.'
- Apr 17, 2015
AceShowbiz - Shia LaBeouf might raise eyebrows again with his latest bizarre comment. In a new interview with Variety to discuss "LoveTrue", a new "experimental drama," which he executive produced, the actor got candid as he talked about being an artist and how much he hates being famous.
"Performance art tightens the space of relations and allows me to work in real time, as opposed to only synthetic time. It liberated me from the old constraints of genre and taxonomic systems (drama, thriller, comedy, mystery)," he said when asked about his announcement that he retired from public life in 2014.
Talking about the hard part of being an artist, he said, "The craft of acting for film is terribly exclusive and comes with the baggage of celebrity, which robs you of your individuality and separates you.... As a celebrity/star I am not an individual -- I am a spectacular representation of a living human being, the opposite of an individual. The enemy of the individual, in myself as well as in others."
He continued, "The requirements to being a star/celebrity are namely, you must become an enslaved body. Just flesh -- a commodity, and renounce all autonomous qualities in order to identify with the general law of obedience to the course of things. The star is a byproduct of the machine age, a relic of modernist ideals. It's outmoded. I started acting as a child. It has been a long time since I've known another way."
