Shia LaBeouf has claimed his Holes co-star Sigourney Weaver “slapped” his father on the set of the 2003 film.
The Transformers star was a teenager when he appeared in the hit big screen adaptation of Louis Sachar’s 1998 novel and played Stanley Yelnats, a young boy sent to a strict detention centre after being wrongly accused of theft. Weaver starred as the unforgiving Warden Walker, who ran the Camp Green Lake juvenile camp.
LaBeouf made the revelation after being asked about another of his teenage roles during a panel at the Fanboy Expo in Texas, PEOPLE reports.
Responding to a question about his memories from the set of Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, he said: “My dad was fresh out of prison, so we were on this set, and here’s all these pretty girls walking around. Bad news.”
“My dad was hitting on all three of those women all the time,” LaBeouf added, referring to Charlie’s Angels lead stars Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore.
“My dad’s been kicked off of so many sets, dude,” LaBeouf continued. “He hit on Sigourney Weaver one time. She slapped him on Holes, on the Holes set. So, that’s probably… that’s what I remember from Charlie’s Angels.”
The Independent has contacted LaBeouf and Weaver’s representatives for comment.
The actor’s father, Jeffrey LaBeouf, was jailed in the early 1980s after being convicted of attempted rape.
LaBeouf explored their complex relationship in his 2019 film Honey Boy and depicted his father as abusive – but later said this narrative was “f***ing nonsense”.
“My dad was so loving to me my whole life,” he said on an episode of Jon Bernthal’s Real Ones podcast in 2022. “Fractured, sure. Crooked, sure. Wonky, for sure. But never was not loving, never was not there. He was always there… and I’d done a world press tour about how f***ed he was as a man."
LaBeouf’s comments come after the actor pleaded guilty to three counts of simple battery for punching people outside a New Orleans bar in February.
Video of the encounter, which took place during Mardi Gras, showed a shirtless LaBeouf shoving one person to the ground and hitting another person in the face, “causing his nose to possibly dislocate,” a New Orleans police report said.
He was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to undergo rehabilitation for alcohol abuse, sensitivity training and anger management classes.
