Brad Pitt broke up fight with Shia LaBeouf, Scott Eastwood recalls
Actor Scott Eastwood recalled a tense on-set confrontation with Shia LaBeouf during the filming of the 2014 movie 'Fury'. Brad Pitt reportedly intervened to de-escalate the situation, which stemmed from a disagreement over a scripted action.
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Hear this story Scott Eastwood is looking back on the moment things got so "tense" with his costar Shia LaBeouf that Brad Pitt had to step in.
During an appearance on the "Armchair Expert" podcast released Aug. 3, the " Lucky Strike " actor, 40, looked back on an incident where he almost got into a fight with LaBeouf on the set of their 2014 movie "Fury."
" Brad Pitt sort of broke up a tense moment," Eastwood recalled, explaining it went down when LaBeouf "was having an episode" and "thought that I shouldn't be spitting tobacco" on a tank, even though it "was in the script."
Eastwood, who said he had been trying to "keep clear" of the "tormented" actor on set, remembered cursing out LaBeouf. The dustup occurred about midway through production, and Eastwood said it wasn't an anomaly.
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