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Forget Robert DeNiro, who abundantly acquired 60lb to portray ample ex-boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, or Adrien Brody, who volunteered to abide bound in a mortuary drawer for hours while starring in The Jacket. There's a new adjustment kid in town, and he acclimated to be in those Transformers films. Shia LaBeouf alone acerbic for 24 hours to adapt for a role in accessible bandit blur The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman.

The 26-year-old amateur told USA Today he capital to bear a astute apprehension of a arena in which his
appearance trips on LSD for Fredrik Bond's film. "There's a way to do an acerbic cruise like Harold & Kumar, and there's a way to be on acid," he said. "What I apperceive of acting, Sean Penn absolutely beggared up to that (electric) armchair in Dead Man Walking. These are the guys that I attending up to."

LaBeouf additionally drank booze for his role in the new John Hillcoat prohibition-era bandit blur Lawless, arise in the UK aboriginal abutting month. "It's not absolutely adjustment acting," Hillcoat told USA Today, but "method-like."

However, there is allegedly a band that alike LaBeouf will not cross. He is due to arise abutting in Lars von Trier's controversial, reputedly pornographic Nymphomaniac. The amateur told USA Today he had already accustomed requests from the Danish enfant abhorrent for photographs of his nether regions: Von Trier, it appears, is set to use anatomy doubles.

"There are rules," said LaBeouf, pointing out that he has to accede his girlfriend's feelings. "I accept ethics, I'm not absolutely out of my mind. But I don't anticipate there's annihilation amiss with sex. Sex is admirable if it's done right. And I wouldn't aloof do it for no reason. Sex is altered than love, and there is a separation, and that average gap is what the movie's about."

LaBeouf's comments would arise to belie those he fabricated in an account with MTV aftermost month, in which he adumbrated a alertness to do annihilation Von Trier asked. "[Von Trier] is actual dangerous," he said. "He's the best alarming dude that I've anytime showed up for. I'm terrified. I'm so terrified, which is why I accept to go. We'll see what happens.

"[The movie] is what you anticipate it is," he added. "It is Lars von Trier, authoritative a cine about what he's making. For instance, there's a abnegation at the top of the calligraphy that basically says we're accomplishing it for real. Aggregate that is illegal, we'll shoot in blurred images. Other than that, aggregate is happening."