Shia LaBeouf Walks Out of Nymphomaniac Press Conference, Poses With Bag Over His Head

Brandi Fowler, eonline
14 hours ago

Shia LaBeouf, Paper Bag

It's clear Shia LaBeouf was not in the mood for a press conference this weekend.

About 10 minutes after a presser in Berlin began for his upcoming flick Nymphomaniac Sunday, the thesp got up and walked right out of the room when he was asked why he wanted to do a movie with so many sex scenes, according to the Hollywood Reporter .

He did answer the question before walking away, saying slowly, "When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much."

Apparently, the line is a quote from French soccer legend Eric Cantona, who says those words in the film Looking for Eric, while the credits are rolling.

What that has to do with sex scenes or Nymphomaniac…LaBeouf didn't say.

The mag, which also reported that the thesp is missing a bottom tooth, said the rest of the cast and crew on the panel (which included Christian Slater and Uma Thurman) looked a bit stunned by his exit, but pulled themselves together and "lightly applauded" as he left.

LaBeouf's antics didn't stop there, though.

The 27-year-old Charlie Countryman star also posed on the red carpet for the film at the International Film Festival Berlinale Sunday with a paper bag over his head that read, "I Am Not Famous Anymore."

He also tweeted those same words last Sunday, Feb. 2.

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good

can't stand him

I hope he becomes the new Christian Slater/Stephen Dorff

good riddance!

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ATTENTION! that is all this dude wants. Can't believe peeps are falling for this ''oh em gee he's just so tortured artist'' bullshit

i like his films, i've got no problem with his trantrums

Hollywood is really a horrid mind controlling place for those who 'tune in' to this stuff.

Gunsnhalen said:

ATTENTION! that is all this dude wants. Can't believe peeps are falling for this ''oh em gee he's just so tortured artist'' bullshit

He is one of those guys who seems to think the world thinks a lot more about Shia Lebeouf than the world actually thinks about Shia Lebeouf

I haven't read about his previous antics, but couldn't this just be Lars Von Trier's idea to gain attention and promote the film?

I Follow Shia on Twitter and it's all a Gimmick....I'm a fan of course...His Tweet campaigning matches his antics in public...It's kind of sad that he's doing all of this now that he's a Mega-Star...He Punched & Clawed his way to become a Movie-Star and this is what his Fans get..He's young and Rich and should be enjoying his success and wealth...We all know or know of a "Shia"...He's that guy that if you say ONE wrong thing he has a "Bitch fit" at your house, at the Club or anywhere in Public. These people are not violent to others, they just have tired-ass "fits"....Since he got caught plagiarizing, he feels guilty and probably stupid so now we get to see HYPED up antics and fits Online and in Public.....I Tweeted him and told him enough is enough and he needs to get back to work...LOL...

Bill Murray simply explains what's going on with Shia.

Bill Murray Explains Shia LaBeouf's "Problem": He's Got a Funny Name, He Probably Got Beat Up a Lot

Lily Harrison, eonline
12 hours ago

Bill Murray, Shia LaBeouf

Bill Murray doesn't want to play nice!

The actor roasted Shia LaBeouf during a buyer's brunch for his flick Rock the Kasbah at the International Film Festival Berlinale over the weekend.

Murray explained his theory about the former child star's bizarre antics at the festival.

"Shia LaBeouf, I don't know. He's got a funny name. That's his problem…and a cross to bear," he said.

"It's like "A Boy Named Sue"…he probably got beat up a lot."

Uh oh…Murray throwing shade is bound to provoke the 27-year-old!

But to be fair, LaBeouf has been garnering attention for his behavior over the last 48 hours several weeks.

LaBeouf lunged at three photographers in front of his hotel Saturday night, just hours after he wore a paper bag that read "I am not famous anymore" over his head at the red carpet premiere for Nymphomaniac.

He's been tweeted that exact phrase every single day for the past twenty days. Performance art or not , that's some serious dedication to the cause, people!

He also walked out of the movie's press conference and quoted French soccer legend Eric Cantona while exiting the room.

Reporters heard the actor say, "When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much."

The line is a quote from Cantona, who says those words in the film Looking for Eric while the credits roll.

Someone break out the popcorn because this is probably only the beginning of the Murray-LaBeouf war of words.

missfee said:

Bill Murray simply explains what's going on with Shia.

Bill Murray Explains Shia LaBeouf's "Problem": He's Got a Funny Name, He Probably Got Beat Up a Lot

Lily Harrison, eonline
12 hours ago

Bill Murray, Shia LaBeouf

Bill Murray doesn't want to play nice!

The actor roasted Shia LaBeouf during a buyer's brunch for his flick Rock the Kasbah at the International Film Festival Berlinale over the weekend.

Murray explained his theory about the former child star's bizarre antics at the festival.

"Shia LaBeouf, I don't know. He's got a funny name. That's his problem…and a cross to bear," he said.

"It's like "A Boy Named Sue"…he probably got beat up a lot."

Uh oh…Murray throwing shade is bound to provoke the 27-year-old!

But to be fair, LaBeouf has been garnering attention for his behavior over the last 48 hours several weeks.

LaBeouf lunged at three photographers in front of his hotel Saturday night, just hours after he wore a paper bag that read "I am not famous anymore" over his head at the red carpet premiere for Nymphomaniac.

He's been tweeted that exact phrase every single day for the past twenty days. Performance art or not , that's some serious dedication to the cause, people!

He also walked out of the movie's press conference and quoted French soccer legend Eric Cantona while exiting the room.

Reporters heard the actor say, "When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much."

The line is a quote from Cantona, who says those words in the film Looking for Eric while the credits roll.

Someone break out the popcorn because this is probably only the beginning of the Murray-LaBeouf war of words.

Team Murray! Fuck Shia...

Oh wait, I know! He's doing a Joaquin Phoenix!

missfee said:

Bill Murray simply explains what's going on with Shia.

Bill Murray Explains Shia LaBeouf's "Problem": He's Got a Funny Name, He Probably Got Beat Up a Lot

Lily Harrison, eonline
12 hours ago

Bill Murray, Shia LaBeouf

Bill Murray doesn't want to play nice!

The actor roasted Shia LaBeouf during a buyer's brunch for his flick Rock the Kasbah at the International Film Festival Berlinale over the weekend.

Murray explained his theory about the former child star's bizarre antics at the festival.

"Shia LaBeouf, I don't know. He's got a funny name. That's his problem…and a cross to bear," he said.

"It's like "A Boy Named Sue"…he probably got beat up a lot."

Uh oh…Murray throwing shade is bound to provoke the 27-year-old!

But to be fair, LaBeouf has been garnering attention for his behavior over the last 48 hours several weeks.

LaBeouf lunged at three photographers in front of his hotel Saturday night, just hours after he wore a paper bag that read "I am not famous anymore" over his head at the red carpet premiere for Nymphomaniac.

He's been tweeted that exact phrase every single day for the past twenty days. Performance art or not , that's some serious dedication to the cause, people!

He also walked out of the movie's press conference and quoted French soccer legend Eric Cantona while exiting the room.

Reporters heard the actor say, "When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much."

The line is a quote from Cantona, who says those words in the film Looking for Eric while the credits roll.

Someone break out the popcorn because this is probably only the beginning of the Murray-LaBeouf war of words.

Joaquin Pheonix is the exact person i thought of. Which is why i don't think he is really doing this out of craziness. But i have friends who think he's a ''tortured artist'' what the fuck ever

shia's trying to project an image of himself as victim, to distract from the charges of plagiarism brought against him. :naughtyboy:

Timmy84 said:

missfee said:

Bill Murray simply explains what's going on with Shia.

Bill Murray Explains Shia LaBeouf's "Problem": He's Got a Funny Name, He Probably Got Beat Up a Lot

Lily Harrison, eonline
12 hours ago

Bill Murray, Shia LaBeouf

Bill Murray doesn't want to play nice!

The actor roasted Shia LaBeouf during a buyer's brunch for his flick Rock the Kasbah at the International Film Festival Berlinale over the weekend.

Murray explained his theory about the former child star's bizarre antics at the festival.

"Shia LaBeouf, I don't know. He's got a funny name. That's his problem…and a cross to bear," he said.

"It's like "A Boy Named Sue"…he probably got beat up a lot."

Uh oh…Murray throwing shade is bound to provoke the 27-year-old!

But to be fair, LaBeouf has been garnering attention for his behavior over the last 48 hours several weeks.

LaBeouf lunged at three photographers in front of his hotel Saturday night, just hours after he wore a paper bag that read "I am not famous anymore" over his head at the red carpet premiere for Nymphomaniac.

He's been tweeted that exact phrase every single day for the past twenty days. Performance art or not , that's some serious dedication to the cause, people!

He also walked out of the movie's press conference and quoted French soccer legend Eric Cantona while exiting the room.

Reporters heard the actor say, "When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much."

The line is a quote from Cantona, who says those words in the film Looking for Eric while the credits roll.

Someone break out the popcorn because this is probably only the beginning of the Murray-LaBeouf war of words.

Team Murray! Fuck Shia...

A Brief History of Shia LaBeouf Copying the Work of Others

http://entertainment.time.com/2014/02/10/shia-labeouf-plagiarism-scandal/

Is this a breakdown or a breakthrough?

Andreas Rentz / Getty Images

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History tends to repeat itself, but actor Shia LaBeouf tends to repeat others: Even his apologies for plagiarism are plagiarized. The former Disney star claims that this is all a piece of performance art (sound familiar?), but that seems suspiciously meta.

Here are 14 times when LaBeouf has blatantly ripped someone off:

1. LaBeouf plagiarized an apology to Alec Baldwin

In February 2013, LaBeouf abruptly quit what would have been his first Broadway show, Orphans, due to “creative differences” (that is, he couldn’t get along with Alec Baldwin, according to reports). LaBeouf decided that the best way to explain his departure would be to tweet out a photo of his email apology to the cast and Baldwin by name. Unfortunately, parts of his prose — sample: “a man owns up… a man grasps his mistakes” — were ripped off verbatim from a 2009 Esquire article titled “What is a Man?” People, including the article’s author, noticed. Obviously.

creative differences http://t.co/d8xvV2Hr—
Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) February 20, 2013

2. To rationalize the plagiarism, LaBeouf lifted another quote from David Mamet

invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.—
Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) February 21, 2013

For what it’s worth, LaBeouf clearly does understand proper accrediting formats:

"acting has become a profession of the genteel class" – David Mamet http://t.co/GC8AMKNs—
Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) February 20, 2013

3. LaBeouf plagiarized his directorial debut

LaBeouf’s short film HowardCantour.com premiered at the May 2012 Cannes Film Festival. It wasn’t until it was posted online on Dec. 16, 2013 that viewers began to notice that the film was almost an exact adaptation of a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, best known for Ghost World.

Clowes told BuzzFeed, whi...lic light: “The first I ever heard of the film was this morning when someone sent me a link. I’ve never spoken to or met Mr. LaBeouf. I’ve never even seen one of his films that I can recall — and I was shocked, to say the least, when I saw that he took the script and even many of the visuals from a very personal story I did six or seven years ago and passed it off as his own work. I actually can’t imagine what was going through his mind.”

4. He then apologized for plagiarism by plagiarizing a Yahoo! Answers post from four years ago:

LaBeouf:

Copying isn't particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else's idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.—
Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) December 17, 2013

Random person on Yahoo! Answers:

Merely copying isn’t particularly creative work, though it’s useful as training and practice. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work…

5. LaBeouf’s graphic novels pulled quotes from Charles Bukowski and French writer Benoit Duteurtre

In April 2012, LaBeouf announced his intention to become a comic book writer and artist at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo. He said that the process was “like singing in the sh...t edit.” But it turns out there was a reason why the copy was so clean. On Dec. 18, 2013, news broke that many lines from his self-published 2012 books Let’s Fucking Party and Stale N Mate were lifted from Charles Bukowski and Benoit Duteurtre’s work.

6. LaBeouf apologized again. First, he did so in the voice of Tiger Woods…

Shia:

I have let my family down, and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.—
Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) December 18, 2013

Tiger: “I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.”

7. Then in the words of Robert McNamara...

Shia:

I was wrong, terribly wrong. I owe it to future generations to explain why.—
Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) December 18, 2013

McNamara: “We were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why.”

8. Kanye West…

Shia:

It starts with this…I'm sorry @danielclowes—
Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) December 18, 2013

Kanye: “It starts with this… I’m sorry Taylor.”

9. Poster artist Shepard Fairey…

Shia:

I sincerely apologize for my lapse in judgment & I do take full responsibility for my actions, which were mine alone.—
Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) December 19, 2013

Shepard: “I sincerely apologize for my lapse in judgment, and I take full responsibility for my actions, which were mine alone.”

10. And finally, Mark Zuckerberg

Shia:

I want to thank all of you who have written in and created groups and protested. Even though I wish I hadn't made so many of you angry.—
Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) December 19, 2013

Zuck: “I want to thank all of you who have written in and created groups and protested. Even though I wish I hadn’t made so many of you angry, I am glad we got to hear you.”

(LaBeouf also hired a skywriter to apologize to Clowes in the sky overlooking Los Angeles in January. Clowes lives in the Bay Area. He took legal action.)

11. LaBeouf ripped off copy for his website

The website description of LaBeouf’s Campaign Book project is almost identical to the o...iel Nadel to describe his own project, PictureBox.

12. The whole thing is suspiciously Joaquin Phoenix-like

In late January, LaBeouf assured fans that what seemed like a downward spiral was actually premeditated performance art. Unfortunately Joaquin Phoenix beat LaBe... the punch five years ago, as part of Casey Affleck’s mockumentary I’m Still Here.

But alas — fans were naive to hope that this would be his last act of plagiarism.

13. Shia pulled a Sia

For those who missed LaBeouf’s 22 (and counting) Twitter assertions that he’s not famous anymore, the actor appeared on the red carpet for this weekend’s Berlin premiere of Nymphomaniac with his new favorite mantra written on a paper bag over his head.

François Berthier / Getty Images

This move is strangely familiar to singer Sia’s November cover of Billboard, in which she posed with a paper bag on her head explaining that she “doesn’t want to be famous.”

I'm on the cover of billboard. Sort of. Hehehe. http://t.co/ONmNhnRTIY—
sia furler (@Sia) October 25, 2013

14. LaBeouf can’t get through a press conference without repeated others

Following the bag incident, LaBeouf appeared next to his Nymphomaniac costars during a press conference. When a reporter asked LaBeouf about the film’s numerous sex scenes, he replied, “When the seagulls follow the trawler, it’s because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea,” then abruptly stormed out.

“Obviously, the script is packed with a lot of sardines,” co-star Christian Slater said in an effort to make the moment slightly less awkward.

No one was surprised to find that the line was ripped from French soccer player Eric Cantona.

^^^

^ haven't you been following this???????? huge literary scandal hey

What an idiot.

NEXT!

ummm, i feel kind of bad for admitting this, but i'm kinda ENJOYING this. but only if its a legitimate "meltdown" which i think it is. i think it'll become a case study of white privilege/entitlement gone bad. dude is SO clueless right now (not to be confused with Martin Lawrence's and Katt Williams' similar downslides)

XxAxX said:

^ haven't you been following this???????? huge literary scandal hey

I knew about the one scandal but that whole list is crazy. I don't follow him per se because I'm not a fan of his acting, but I think that his bizarre antics are pretty funny.

^ i don't usually follow him either, but he's generating a buzz with his bizarre behavior and for repeatedly plagiarizing people. it's odd. i guess it's pretty easy to feel a tingle of that schadenfreude thingy. i kind of wish shia would just go away for a while.

i mean, if he really wants to be 'not be famous anymore' he should obvously not go to high profile events wearing a paper bag on his head

then again maybe he is truly breaking down in which case it isn't actually funny, and someone should help him. i dunno. with paparazzi and celebrities the entire scene can rapidly turn lethal through the feedback phenomenon. back in the day we all saw what happened to princess di and imo to some degree the paps actually harassed britney spears into a nervous breakdown. paparazzi are ruthless freaks who could make wearing a paper bag seem normal.....

missfee said:

XxAxX said:

^ haven't you been following this???????? huge literary scandal hey

I knew about the one scandal but that whole list is crazy. I don't follow him per se because I'm not a fan of his acting, but I think that his bizarre antics are pretty funny.

Technically I don't follow it and yet I see his meltdowns every other day. He's an eyesore.

NDRU said:

He is one of those guys who seems to think the world thinks a lot more about Shia Lebeouf than the world actually thinks about Shia Lebeouf

This. I have no desire to see any of his movies.

kewlschool said:

NDRU said:

He is one of those guys who seems to think the world thinks a lot more about Shia Lebeouf than the world actually thinks about Shia Lebeouf

This. I have no desire to see any of his movies.

I've seen some of the movies this guy was in, but just don't seem to remember him...

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XxAxX said:

A Brief History of Shia LaBeouf Copying the Work of Others

http://entertainment.time.com/2014/02/10/shia-labeouf-plagiarism-scandal/

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13. Shia pulled a Sia

For those who missed LaBeouf’s 22 (and counting) Twitter assertions that he’s not famous anymore, the actor appeared on the red carpet for this weekend’s Berlin premiere of Nymphomaniac with his new favorite mantra written on a paper bag over his head.

François Berthier / Getty Images

This move is strangely familiar to singer Sia’s November cover of Billboard, in which she posed with a paper bag on her head explaining that she “doesn’t want to be famous.”

I'm on the cover of billboard. Sort of. Hehehe. http://t.co/ONmNhnRTIY—
sia furler (@Sia) October 25, 2013

No, this is wrong. He is actually ripping off the great Murray Langston here.

Shia did this as part of an art exhibit where HE is part of the exhibit. He was interviewed by a TMZ guy and the guy said he looked like he was crying, but I think it was part of the act... he is an actor after all.

I need to find that link... and plagerism? He is acting a part in a written role, wouldn't the writers be to blame for the lack of creativity?

ALL of Hollywood recycles stories and great ideas.

http://popwatch.ew.com/20...the-scene/

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