PremiumLEAKED! Olivia Wilde BEGGED Shia LaBeouf to stay on ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ in viral video
The director, who has claimed to have dropped the Honey Boy actor from her upcoming release, is now having to answer for a leaked video where she can seen asking Shia to 'stay' in the movie.
Last Updated: 06.27 PM, Aug 29, 2022
Just two days after claiming in an interview that she had fired Shia LaBeouf (the former lead) of her upcoming directorical venture Don't Worry Darling, a video of her begging the actor to stay in the film was leaked online on Friday.
In the video, Wilde can be seen talking to Shia through the video which she was recording at the time, and asking him to stay on the movie and that she was "not ready to give up".
“I wanted to reach out because I feel like I’m not ready to give up on this yet,” she said. “I, too, am heartbroken, and I want to figure this out", she said, in parts, before going on to hint at a possible rift between LaBeouf and the film’s lead actress, Florence Pugh (of Midsommar fame).
“I think this might be a bit of a wake-up call for Miss Flo, and I want to know if you’re open to giving this a shot with me, with us,” she can be heard saying in the now-viral video clip.
Olivia Wilde, who had told Variety that she had fired Shia LaBeouf because she wanted to keep other cast members “safe” from his “combative energy"—before hiring her now-boyfriend Harry Styles as Shia's replacement—is yet to comment on the leaked video.
On Thursday, in an email to variety, LaBeouf struck back at her, saying she did not fire him and that he quit instead "due to lack of rehearsal time". He also sent screenshots to the magazine of texts between him and Wilde from way back in August 2020, expressing his desire to quit the movie.
In the emails, LaBeouf wrote, “You and I both know the reasons for my exit. I quit your film because your actors and I couldn’t find time to rehearse," Shia wrote in his email to Wilde, which was later shared with Variety following the release of their now-controversial cover story.
" I fully understand the attractiveness of pushing that story because of the current social landscape, the social currency that brings. It is not the truth," Shia Lebouf concluded.