Don’t let the name fool you — Shia LaBeouf wants you to know there’s no beef.
Days after making headlines with an interview in which he compared his ambitions and reputation to those of fellow actor Timothée Chalamet, the Peanut Butter Falcon star shut down any suggestion of bad blood Monday by posting a screenshot on social media of what appeared to be a very friendly email exchange between them.
In an email sent in October with the subject line “Electric,” Chalamet, 29, purportedly raved about LaBeouf’s performance in David Mamet’s Henry Johnson, which was staged at the Electric Lodge theater in Los Angeles. “Absolutely blown away by your work the other night,” the email said. “What a fantastic play. I hope you guys take it to New York. And I hope this is the beginning of your work on stage and not an anomaly!”
“If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken, twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools”
Timothée Chalamet is doing better work than anyone alive – we been good pic.twitter.com/dXRFadP7Cv
— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) May 12, 2025
LaBeouf, 38, delivered a cordial reply, laid out like a poem: “Thank you doggy / Every blessing to you / Fun watching you evolve / Take ownership / Bang bang.”
In his post Monday, LaBeouf wrote, “Timothée Chalamet is doing better work than anyone alive — we been good.” He also quoted a line from Rudyard Kipling’s 1895 poem “If”: “If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken, twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.”
Representatives for Chalamet didn’t immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly‘s request for comment.
In a wide-ranging Hollywood Reporter interview published last week, LaBeouf made reference to Chalamet’s recent SAG Award acceptance speech, in which the A Complete Unknown star declared, “I’m really in pursuit of greatness. People don’t usually talk like this, but I want to be one of the greats.”
LaBeouf — who over the years has developed a reputation as a talented but controversial performer — told THR, “I hear Timothée Chalamet get up and he says something like, ‘I want to be great.’ I so know the feeling. On him, it’s cute. On me, it wasn’t cute. You know what I’m saying?”
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Elsewhere in the interview, LaBeouf said of his acting journey, “I’ve been searching for a long time. I’m really like a pure actor. When I was young, I didn’t think that I required much help to do what I do. I was completely narcissistic and fearful and had a lack of trust. I’ve been under the tutelage of a lot of dudes who tried to mentor me, but I just didn’t trust them, or didn’t like what they made.”
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